Moving, starting back to work, and chasing after a baby are leaving me more than slightly exhausted.  This week we had inspections on our condo as well as on our new house.  The inspection of the house did not reveal any surprises, although we definitely have our work cut out for us.  I snapped a few pictures while we were there and thought I would share.

I took pictures of the front of the house from the car because it was raining.  From where we were parked, I couldn’t fit the whole house in the frame, so I had to take 2 shots:

And the rest of the front, including the garage:

The upper deck (I expect to enjoy many cookouts, glasses of wine, and cups of coffee out here):

And lower deck (the deck requires some finishing work):

Part of the backyard.  H will have somewhere to play outside!

Woodburning fireplace in living room (this feature is more aesthetic than functional, as we will actually lose a lot of heat up the chimney; thus we will likely only use it for special occasions):

Ahh….70’s era wall cutouts between the dining room and living room.  I imagine H and I will play peek-a-boo through these things:

The super huge awesome kitchen.  It has a super awesome DISHWASHER.  And also a microwave, which is a good thing because our microwave died last month.  The kitchen is outdated but we have lots to work with here.  Definitely the best kitchen we’ve ever had!

More hot kitchen action:

View from kitchen into dining room:

View from dining room out to upper deck:

This house has 4 bedrooms.  We’re using two of those rooms as actual bedrooms for our little family.  The third bedroom will become a guest bedroom and the fourth bedroom will be a huge office/library.  This room will eventually become H’s bedroom.  The paint will be the first thing to get changed in this house:

This will become our bedroom:

The downstairs family room has an efficient gas stove.  It will really help to heat the house in the winter months:

Those are the highlight shots from our inspection.  We have some work to do on the electric and roof, plus lots and lots of updating, but it should work out to be a super awesome home for us.  Did I mention that the neighbors are really nice??

Other than that, just chasing H around, feeding H, feeding H more, and then feeding him again 10 minutes later.  He actually ordered something off a kid’s menu a few weeks back and managed to eat about a third of it in one sitting.  I never seem to pack him enough food for his 2 days a week at the nanny.  Last night for dinner he had a “snack” of whole wheat pasta with red pepper sauce followed by a quarter of my sesame-soy sirloin steak and about a third cup of chopped broccoli.  He wouldn’t stop eating!!!  Yesterday I gave H his second haircut and I managed to really botch it.  He wouldn’t sit still and kept rocking back and forth and squirming.  I cut it too short in some places and it’s really uneven in the back and around his ears.  Oh well.  It’ll grow out again fast enough and I’ll have an opportunity to redeem myself.  Going back to work has been good for me, although I’ve realized that it’s practically impossible to do science part-time.  I never manage to make the sort of progress that I feel I need to make.  I have a self-imposed deadline of August to submit another grant, and I don’t see it happening at this point.  I think maybe it might work out better when we’re in the new place and I have a desk to work at.  Without an actual office at home or at work, my options are limited.  So that’s it for now….I’m hoping that H abandons his current whining jag that is no doubt induced by teething pain.  We’re all zombies in our house right now, except for the cat perhaps, who probably caught some shut-eye last night while hiding in the couch.  Some days, I really wish I could hide in the couch too.