We Are Alive and Well

We are allive and well! We finally have internet working in our apartment. Freddy T. and Hannah have gone to Starbucks reguarly to connect online, but I haven't made it down there for any leisure time. Only once because I needed to order groceries and diapers, which by the way were delivered to my door the very next day!

We are a week and a half into our new lives here in NYC and so far things are going well. Freddy has been posting on his site http://www.nycmission.com/ so you can go there for more detailed updates. I hope to be a regular blogger from this point on, but there is no way to retrack the past week.

A little run down though, we love the location of our apartment. I have not had the chance to explore a whole lot because the walking is physically exhausting, but I've gotten around a little bit. Our area is more laid back and full of families. It's not overwhelming to be here at all. If you go down the island a little bit it gets very busy, but not where we are. We are one long block from Central Park (1/4 of a mile). Jack has been there almost everyday. He mostly goes with Hannah, but he has been with his Daddy and once with me and a few times with the whole family. Two weeks ago he didn't really know what a park was, but now he asks to go to it and gets really excited. My experience going alone with him was good, a little overwhelming. There were so many kids, moms, and nannies. Jack had a blast on the playground and I just sat back and wondered how in the world do you break into this community of moms?

We are enjoying our church. We are mainly going to the morning service. Freddy and Hannah are going to the evening one as well (of course Freddy is), but there is no child care in the evenings and it is not walking distance, so Jack and I have hung out at home and enjoyed our time together then.

We are getting settled in our home. Amazingly most of what we brought with us fits, but we are using every square inch available to us. I haven't taken pictures yet but will try to post them in a few days of the apartment. We have only 1 more box to unpack, but have no idea where we would put the things in it, so were just keeping that contents in the box.

Hannah and I are going on the Womens Retreat this weekend with our church. We are going through a Beth Moore study/retreat. It's called "Am I Loving Well", a 4 lesson bible study. We are both excited. It will be about an hour and a half away in Ocean Grove, NJ on the beach. Jack and Freddy will have a mans weekend. Pray for them!

This is a random post, will get my thoughts together for the next one, there is just so much that has gone on and no way to recall it all

By the way, a quick update on the babies... Lillie is estimated at 3 lbs. 15 oz right now and Elliott is following behind at 3 lbs. 5 oz. I'm huge. You can go to Paul Rameys website (our worship pastor) and see a picture of me a week ago he posted. Scroll down to "wonder woman". As of a few days ago I was measuring in at 45 1/5 inches... very big, getting uncomfortable, but completely amazed that the babies are doing so well and we've made it this far and going strong. Still on for our December 16th due date.

One funny thing. When we are riding in a taxi, Jack holds on the the back of the front seat and says very loudly "Go! Go! Go!" through the majority of the ride. He figured out very fast the nature of a taxi ride.

I'll post some pictures we've taken over the past week. They are in no particular order.

Jack in Central Park at the Jackie Kennedy Resivor, looking toward the East Side.

Playing in the playground

He loves the sandbox

You can't tell, but there were 3 dog walkers here and about 7-8 dogs... look at the size of that big black one, can you imagine that living in your apartment? Jack loved it!

Mr. Jack sleeping from Charlotte to NYC on his first plane ride.

Jack and Daddy on the slide.

Jack on the plane, he ate from Nashville all the way to Charlotte!