Our house in the middle of our street....

View from the kitchen sink

Office/Den/Hang out room

Playroom

Living Room

Stacy, Ishmael and Ibrahim's room

Johari and my bedroom

Kitchen from living room

We have been living in our house for at least a month now, I think. Probably a little longer. It is wonderful. It is a great space. It feels good. We have an amazing backyard and front yard. Johari loves to just run in circles in the backyard. We put up a couple of rope swings on our big tree in the back. They are awesome. I had to make the swing pretty low and now it is perfect because she can do it all on her own. And she does!!!!
One huge blessing that moving into our house has been that we don't have a TV here. It is the chance to wean from watching her DVDs everyday. What an amazing difference! She spends all of that time creating, imagining, pretending, hopping, running, exploring, singing, and so much more. I love it. We read so many more books. We have been hooked on Alison Lester books lately. It started with this really cool book that we borrowed from the library called Ernie Dances to the Digeridoo. Then we saught more of her books. We both really enjoy them. They have travel and imagination and different kids enjoying life in different ways. They are super fun.
We have tons of colors on our walls inside of our house and now the outside has begun to get painted. Just the front for the moment. The comments of neighbors and passers by.... "Your house really looks different than it did." "You won't have any trouble telling people which house is yours." "Now, I can tell people I live next to the orange house." "I like it." Along with people pausing to check it out from the corner. It is sunshine on a cloudy day.