Housing. The one main stress with this upcoming move! I think Kyle and I are leaning towards renting/signing a 3 month lease for a few reasons. One, we have no where to move come Kyle's Feb 25th start date. Instead of me staying here and him moving there and driving 5 hours every weekend to see us until 1. our house sells or 2. we find a house, it would be much easier to have us all together. Also, his company is providing us with $6000 to spend on housing and food until we find a place. Hopefully, with us signing a 3 month lease (at around $1200 a month for a place to rent), that leaves us with a good 2 months of free groceries for the family as well. So, we will basically have all our needs met for 3 months and that gives us extra time to find the perfect home so we don't just jump into something. Even though it is not going to be easy going from our 2800 sq. ft house to a 1100 sq. ft apartment, it seems silly to not take the $6000 and live for "free" for 3 months until we find a place of our own (in hopes more houses come on the market in the Spring months, as they usually do.) These complexes are only 3 years old and are what most employees who are transferred live in until they find housing. Apparently they are really nice and well kept, and are highly recommended by people in the area. Unfortunately they do not have any 3 bedrooms open (those are the quickest to fill- since most people who transfer have a family) so it looks like we will be in a 2 bedroom- yikes. We still have yet to figure the sleeping out, but Reese will have her own room, and I guess Preston will share with us...we will just have to play that out by ear as he is such an awful sleeper as it is.
Speaking of Preston, I have decided to quit breastfeeding. He did such a good job with the lactose free formula over the weekend for my mom, and I couldn't keep up with pumping while we were gone for 5 days, so the timing was right. He isn't nearly as gassy anymore, so hopefully he is feeling better. Not only am I bummed to quit feeding him, but his formula is expensive! $33 a can- which he goes through 2 a week. Going to be a long (expensive!) 4 months until he can start whole milk! I do have to say going back to eating dairy has been amazing though. The cheese on my taco the other night was a little slice of heaven :)
Preston is also developing quite the personality. My mom referred to him as a "flirt" this past weekend. He just bats those long eye lashes at you, and flutters a smile. Such a sweetie pie. His is such a happy baby, and loves to coo and talk. He is also enamored with Sunday (our cat) right now. Any spotting of the kitty, and he is fixated on him for the longest time. It is so funny. He becomes a stone statue that doesn't even blink until Sunday moves out of sight.
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