Life Around the "New House! New House!"

We are all settled in... I will post a mini-tour soon.  

Recently, the twins have been yelling "M-Cart! M-Cart" when Oliver gets home from daycare.  They like watching him race Mario Cart.  It's pretty funny to watch them yell "turn, turn", "race, race", and "fast fast" as they cheer him on.  At some point, the fun will stop as they try to yank the steering wheel from him to take a turn, but we aren't there yet.  

Lukas absolutely adores our train table in the basement.  The table is small and he will happily do laps around it for an hour if you let him.   Over the weekend, I took all the trains down off the table and assembled the largest train track I could manage.  Toddler heaven!

Our bedtime routine has changed a bit in the new house.  With Lukas in a room by himself, and Alex & Oliver together, we have been putting all three kids to bed at the same time.  Lukas craves one-on-one time with us, and now he gets some quiet time with one of us to read books.  Previously, Oliver would get to read books with one us and stay up a bit later.  It has been working great having Lukas in his own room.  He usually sleeps longer in the morning, so now his brothers aren't waking him up.  He also likes to take him time waking up and will happily hang out in his bed for 15-20min before starting his day, and now he has the privacy to do that.  Alex & Oliver in one room isn't working as great.  They are both prone to early wake-ups and will most often wake the other, in addition to us.  So, the house is still getting early-starts more often that we would like -- if we make it to 6:30am before someone is in our room, that's a win.  If only we could teach Oliver to go back to sleep after he wakes up to go to the bathroom in the morning.  

There is a master bathroom in Oliver & Alex's room, but we replaced the jacuzzi tub with a swanky shower.  Oliver alternates between showers and baths, but we haven't started giving the twins showers yet.  What is with all my kids having a fear of water???  Showers don't work well for kids that don't like getting their heads wet.  For now, we use the hallbath that Lena uses for bathtime.  

Oliver is starting to be a loving older brother -- that certainly took long enough!  It's still not happening as much as I would like, or as frequently as I see/hear about other older siblings treating their younger siblings, but we will take what we can get.