Our New Home

Everything seems to be falling into place.  Nahum’s massive grant proposal (due this Friday) is coming along nicely.  I found a beautiful 2-bedroom apartment in a lovely neighborhood (it’s the first floor of the house in the picture).  Our transplant assistants Michael and Hilary will be joining us for dinner on Tuesday the 17th and all appointments on the 18th.  I may have found a crib, mattress and bedding set all from the same person who’ll bring it to our home-away-from-home Tuesday evening.  My good friend’s mother-in-law will be in B-burg this weekend from Pittsburgh and has volunteered to drive a bunch of gear up for us so we’ll have everything we need for our Pittsburgh “winter vacation”.  My mom Melinda will be joining us for Thanksgiving (she does a great Thanksgiving spread so that’ll be a real treat).

Our Pittsburgh address will be:
2311 1/2 Eldridge St
 Pittsburgh, PA 15217

I’ve got a lot of packing to do this week (including unpacking some boxes of clothes because Shayna is back in 3-6 month clothing).  It’ll be interesting to see how I pack for 3 months away.  It’ll be a good lesson as we’d like to go to Israel for 3 months in the summer of 2011.  (Nahum would work at the Technion in Haifa.)

Shayna continues to get stronger.  Nahum found her sitting in her crib when he went to get her at 11pm last night (I’ve never seen her even try to pull herself up from any position).  Her legs can really support her whole weight now and when she’s sitting she tries to reach things that are so far away she follows over, a first step on the way to crawling.  She probably still won’t crawl, but it’s delightful seeing her feel so much more comfortable in her body and be so strong that she would even risk reaching that far.

I better get going so we can go for Shayna’s weekly blood draw and Dr. Hart can have some numbers for our last appointment tomorrow.