What a Week

Well, we survived our first week in Eau Claire. I certainly didn't think I would be describing life in EC as surviving, but it was kind of a crazy week. When Ella came back from Grandma and Grandpa Haley's on Sunday she seemed really comfortable right away and just explored most of the evening, so i thought she would sleep well. But she didn't and neither did Kyle and I. Ella didn't fall asleep officially until 10:30, 2 hours later than normal and Kyle and I had a hard time falling asleep too. Then I was up by 5:30 and couldn't fall back asleep. Monday was a very tired day with too much unpacking to nap. Then Tuesday I watched Hurshle all day, so no relaxing there! Ella loves having friends around though, so it was fun. Wednesday was a pretty good day, Ella had settled in to sleeping pretty well here and I got more packing undone. THEN- Thursday through Sunday was the great sickness for Ella. She has only had one other bad cold in her little life and that was when she was 4 months old. On Thursday she woke up with snot completely covering her nose and all over her face and a pretty bad fever. She barely ate and slept a ton. That was the story until this morning. Saturday was the worst for sleeping, with a grand total of 19 hours of shut eye for Ella. She hasn't slept that much in one day since she was a tiny newborn! I guess if she was going to be sick, this weekend was a good time for it since it rained most of the time and she would have hated being stuck inside all day.

I am looking forward to this week being better. Pretty much all of the unpacking is done, so this week will be more decorating, hanging pictures and such. Kyle has a softball game tonight that I am hoping will not get rained out so that I can take Ella. We also have bible study again this week, which I am really excited about! We took the month of May off because of the end of the school year and other stuff, and I feel like we haven't seen our friends very much, so I am really looking forward to Thursday. It will be extra awesome because we are going to our pastors house and he and his wife will be talking to us about parenting. They have a lot of wisdom to share and I am ready to soak it up!

It feels like summer is finally starting now that we are settled. I am ready for warm weather so we can go to the pool. Come on sun!!!

P.S. I still promise to post pictures of our new place, I just want to wait until we have some things on the walls so it looks more homey.