The Big Move

Today we got the keys to our new apartment (3 floors down from our current apartment)...which is awesome because it is a 2 bedroom / 2 bathroom. It feels really big compared to our current apartment (~50% larger square footage). We are excited to get all moved in. Larissa's parents came down this evening to help with the move and attend my med school graduation on Sunday, so we all carried a number of boxes down already. My parents are already down for a couple of days worth of meetings for work for my dad, so we'll see my mom tomorrow morning to help move. My brother and grandmas will also be driving in tomorrow afternoon to help with the move and with Dane and to attend graduation on Sunday. Tomorrow morning we'll be working on all of our big furniture (beds, dressers, etc) and will spend tomorrow night in the new apartment. We would've maybe slept there tonight, but the guy that was supposed to move out this past Monday actually moved out today, Thursday. Because of his late departure, the maintenance people didn't get into the apartment to start cleaning and vacuuming until after noon and the painters didn't get in until after 7pm to repaint the walls. Larissa is very excited to finally be able to "nest," since we'll likely be in that unit for the next 3 years (until residency is done). She's already looking at paint colors and furniture configurations (ok, so am I). Anyway, we'll put up some pictures when things calm down.

PS- Dane is doing well. He became un-constipated after coming back to Illinois (dare I say, the state is a bit crappy? - Larissa cringed when she read this) and we are all happy when he manages to sleep well at night. Last night he gave us two 4 hour blocks of sleep in between his feeds, which is great, as we have a super busy couple days ahead of us with moving and graduation stuff.