Density

Hi everyone,

Sorry it's been so long since the last update. We've been spending virtually every evening getting ready for the big day -- packing bags for the hospital, getting the apartment ready, and generally just counting down the time in a state of perpetual disbelief as to how few days we have left until Avery's due date. (Five!)

Anyway, it's taken a lot of creativity figuring out how we're going to fit two adults, a baby, two cats, and all our junk into a 600 square foot apartment. Fortunately, we've been able to store a ton of stuff at Stan & Elaine's house. It'll still be a very tight fit, but it's looking like we'll be able to pull it off, at least for awhile.

Here's the new crib, which was delivered on Friday. The bumper and sheets are courtesy of Jacqui. (Yes, we realize that you aren't supposed to use a bumper with a newborn. Or at least we realized it after Elissa reminded us... but we thought it looked nice for the picture.)















The cats are having a great time taking turns napping in the drawers underneath the crib! Fortunately, neither of them have shown any interest in getting into the crib itself, but we have a crib tent to put on top in case they ever do.

The crib is wedged in between Cher's closet and our bed, which has now been moved several feet down the wall from its original position. Thus, as you can see it's somewhat of a tight squeeze for me to get out of my side of the bed.

Here's Avery's new closet, which was formerly known as our bookshelf.

And here's a typical corner in our bedroom... two dressers and a little bookshelf (with a makeshift cat bed on top) all wedged into one corner. As you can see, it may be a bit tough for me to open my dresser drawers with this new arrangement, but I should be fine so long as I never have to change my socks or underwear.

Here's the stroller parallel parked in a tiny space between the TV and piano.


And here's our new, smaller couch which is wedged up against the cat tower, which in turn is wedged up against the windowsill.













I can't wait to see what happens with so much love, stress, joy, change, laughter, tears and experiences packed into such a small space! Here's to our baby's densely-packed future, and to my beautiful wife who has been so strong, loving and nurturing to little Avery for these last nine months, and to our entire family for these last eight years.


("My density has popped me to you.")