Hot nights

We're still in AZ and it's getting hot in here! It gets cool at night, but during the day the house gets pretty warm. By the time we go to bed (8-9 pm) it's around 77 degrees in our bedroom.

Needless to say we started feeling swaddling Evan at night would make him too warm. Then again, it gets cold around 2-3 am, so we still needed some way to keep him warm. The solution? A sleep sack.


That takes away the problem of keeping him warm, but I wasn't sure he was ready to be unswaddled. Josh said we should try and I decided to go with it, but I had absolutely no faith in it working. Well, it's been 2 nights of happy, 6-hours, unswaddled sleep. Then he sort of wakes up, eats and goes right back to sleep within 30 minutes, unswaddled, and sleeps for another 2-3 hours. His hands get a little cold, especially once he tries to eat them and they get all wet, but that's it. He's such a great baby!

Speaking of hands, he tries to eat them all the time now. He's mastering the art of sucking his thumb, and he's getting pretty good at it! And when he's not trying to eat his hands, he's looking at them figuring out what else he can do with them. He's completely fascinated with them.

And he used to fall asleep in our front carrier, as soon as we started walking. Now he's all awake, looking around and taking in his surroundings. He won't even take his binky, the world is more interesting at that point. Eventually he's fall asleep, but not before a good half hour of exploration.

We're flying to San Diego this Saturday to see Grandpa Chuck and Grandma Debbie (and the rest of the family, of course!), and we should be in WA in 2 weeks time. It's going to be an exciting couple of weeks!

Papá

Apparently, Papá is the funniest word there is!

We found a house!

We're back from our house hunting trip, and we couldn't be happier! We found a great place to rent in a neighborhood with a community pool, small play yard, and private beach. It's not in town, but it's close enough.

This is the house:

And this is the view from our living room and kitchen:


And the view from our bedroom:

This place is beautiful! Maybe I've been in the desert too long, but all that green makes me happy!

We're moving in 2 weeks. We're taking a long drive up there, which should be fun, I love road trips. We won't internet for a few months, but I'll try to still update this blog.

And now, this is my new favorite pic of Evan:

On the road again

We had a great trip to the East Coast. Evan was fantastic on the plane, we got to see family and friends, it was great. We did sleep on a different bed every night, for a grand total of 7 beds in 7 nights, which is exhausting. But it was good to see everybody.
And now, only 5 days later, we're hitting the road again. This time we're going to San Juan Island, to see if we can find a place to rent. And really, to enjoy a couple of days in what will be our new town. We're very excited!

But in these couple of days new things have happened with Evan. First of all, a trip to a place with a 3-hour time difference was bound to have some repercussions. Evan was sleeping 6-7 hours straight every night before the trip. During the trip and the days after: only 5 hours. I know that's not a big difference, but it was still a step back for us. But being that he is such a great baby, he's now back to normal. In fact, he slept 7.5 hours last night. Yay!!

Of course, it helps that he's been taking very short naps during the day. He was taking 2 good 2-3 hour naps before the trip: one in the morning, one in the afternoon. Well, not lately. He has been taking short 30-45 min naps throughout the day, between feedings, cranky pants time, and happy time. And he's been feeding every 1.5-2 hours. My theory is that he's having a bit of a growth spurt, but it could very well be that his schedule is still messed up from the trip. We shall see.

Another awesome development: Saturday afternoon he gave me the most amazing laughter. He has been smiling, cooing and making all sorts of sweet noises while smiling for weeks, but this was different, this was a hahaha laughter. So adorable!! He did it again yesterday afternoon, we had ourselves a laugh fest, because we were both laughing out loud!

Alright, time to start thinking about packing. Wish us luck!