T-Minus 6 Days til the Move.

Good progress was made today in packing, with Griff blissfully playing at daycare and Jag and I using up 5 rolls of tape and wondering how we ever managed to collect this much crap. We managed to finish packing up several rooms and got a great start on the kitchen, and we even had time to stop by the new house to drop off a load of cold stuff for the fridge/freezer and check up on the progress of the painting and other minor work we’re having done. (The colors are looking great; before/after pictures to come this weekend once the work is finished.)

We headed to Cary in the late afternoon to pick up Griff and then stopped to run some errands at the local Target and Lowes. Our little bookworm insisted on bringing some reading material with him. Apparently “Wheels on the Bus” is a gripping yarn that keeps you turning the pages until the shocking, blood-soaked ending. Or something.

We grabbed a quick fast food dinner in Cary and then decided we’d all be better for a visit at North Cary Park. This was clearly a good decision. Sean and I felt a bazillion times less tired and tense afterwards, and Griff had a total blast.

A few park features if you’ve never been:

Not one, but two awesome slides built into hills.

Daddies like them, too!

The real attraction, though, is the giant sandbox. It’s eleventy million times more awesome if your parents let you take off your shoes and run around like a crazed mongoose.

“I am the King of the Small Artificially Molded Climbing Rock!”

After a while mom and dad give up and take off their shoes and run around, too.

“I don’t always completely cover myself in sand, but when I do, I make sure I sprinkle some in every conceivable bodily crevice so there are plenty of surprises when my mommy and daddy are putting my jammies on.”