All change

Lots of new things are happening and it is all very exciting.  Our first big news is that we have made the decision to move.  We would never have bought a house with 3 floors if we had known that we were having twins.  Stairs and two crazy little toddlers are a dangerous combination.  Eva is pretty good and I can sort of trust her (without ever taking an eye off her) but Emilia is a little maniac.  She has fallen off the sofa in the living room 3 times, the one in their bedroom once.  She seems to just forget where she is and bam!  She has also fallen off the deck step and landed with her face in the flower bed, about 1mm from a rock.  That close call got my heart racing - not fun.  So the for the sake of our sanity we are moving to an apartment or a house with a "normal" upstairs and downstairs.


Our house has four bedrooms, two on the top floor and two in the basement.  For the most part we all sleep downstairs.  Our plan was to move the twins up when they are older.  But I really cannot see that working.  In the middle of the night, if they needed us they would have to go down two flights of stairs.   That just seems wrong.  I want them to easily be able to get to us whenever they need to.

The English School is another reason for the move.  We are currently living on the wrong side of the city for both Jens' job and the twins' future school.  Me getting to Uni will be a bit of a pain but that is only temporary and we cannot base any future decisions on that.

It seems like Guinness is asking for a similar fate to Whiskey.  On Tuesday we had our house sanitized against fleas, yuck.  We all had to move out for 24 hours.  Farmor and Farfar gladly took us in.  Getting anything done with the twins around is near to impossible if I am on my own so Farfar looked after them while I got everything ready.  The twins did not adapt well to sleeping in a new environment and they both ended up sleeping in bed with us, or not as was the case.  Looking back it was quite comical and in the morning I got my reward for all my hard work.  The twins took it in turns kissing me.  They have also started to kiss each other, awwwww!