Movers have arrived and left!

To our surprise, we received our air freight shipment Friday night at 7PM (they told us at 5PM it was coming) and our November boat shipment on Saturday at 4PM (we had been originally told sometime the following week). Great news! Now we have all our own kitchen stuff, more toys for William, my china and crystal (not unpacked yet - keep your fingers crossed), and other things yet to be determined.

Surprisingly, I don't feel yet that we have anything totally useless. To be honest, we shipped all my maternity clothes and William's baby clothes and toys - and we have no use for those now, but we didn't want them to get lost in the storage facility the State Department uses. And we have 10 dining room chairs, so our folding chairs from IKEA don't seem very useful either, but maybe they'll be good on the patio? I also feel that limiting ourselves to only shipping eight book boxes was a large accomplishment!

William was most excited about his new tricycle. His GGPA (my grandfather) gave it to him for Christmas, and Greg assembled it tonight while William and I were at the evening kids play time in the courtyard of our apartment complex (it occurs roughly every evening from 6PM). We should have stayed a little longer to give Greg a little more time, because it was most upsetting for Master William to come back upstairs and not be able ride on the shiny red Radio Flyer immediately. Greg finished up the assembly in record time, and William was pushing it all around the house. He needs about another inch to reach the pedals, but luckily there's a push-pole for the parents, so we won't break our backs when he wants to sit on the seat and go.

Tonight I was really thankful for Sarwari, our nanny/maid/cook. After unpacking all last night and this morning, and then having the new shipment delivered this afternoon, it was great to just sit down to a tasty meal. Tonight's dinner was simple - chapatti (bread) and dal (lentils) with tomatoes, and a good fruit salad to finish it off. What a treat and change from ordering pizza like we did when we packed out of DC!

Now just one more shipment of boxes in late March/early April, and we'll be set.