life in durham

a little bit of our life here according to my iphone...

 
arriving in north carolina and she knows the drill. we're in the sixties for sage's flight count.

 nate's first day of school. i tried to make him pose, but i guess he's too old for that or something.

 high heels and more than 500 square feet to run around in? pure joy.

 a little duke tour when my family was in town for the wedding. the campus is gorgeous!

 wagon riding. the good life.

steve-o skipped with the girls all the way to duke chapel, where our stroller brigade and gang of kids didn't interrupt the silence at all of course.

 it feels like we moved in twice--once with a chicago haul and once with our singapore shipment. yikes! sadly, my beloved balinese buddha head lost an ear lobe on the boat ride from asia.

everything seems to be a first for sage--first lick of brownie batter, first dance class, first time tasting a donut, first backyard, first ride in those ridiculous target carts, first day of preschool.

 i asked her to show me a dance move. not bad, S, not bad.

 belize and i took the kids to krispy kreme on national "talk like a pirate day." it was pretty anti-climactic when the teenage worker looked at us and said, "i can just give you the free donuts..." the kids yelled yo ho! anyway.

 nate was out of town, so i let sage have a sleepover in my bed. i woke up with her face in my face as she asked, "want some breakfast, sweetheart?" i hope this lasts.

 

on her way down the street to preschool (and by preschool i mean an hour of socialization with other two year-olds once a week)

girls' nights with the mba wives

i've been eating bowls of crunch berry cereal and roasting vegetables in my OVEN--things we missed for two years! i leave trader joe's in a state of bliss and can't believe how many options there are for anything and everything. oh, and fall weather! the mornings get a little cooler every day. but, in the back of my head i'm thinking about mid-autumn festival over in singapore and all those diverse celebrations i love. 

our life has been split in two year increments thus far.

i think it's gonna be a good two years in durham.