we’ve moved
I am writing this update with a kind of unidentifiable uneasy feeling which often comes in the lull after great activity. Two major events, having a baby and moving, have kept things hopping in our lives for just over three months. Now the activity is done and I am left with the reverberations still coursing through my body and life. I am not even sure I know what “relaxation” means anymore or, rather, I have found that it doesn’t seem to mean what it used to mean.
Peter, my parents and I just moved into a two family house in the Gowanus/South Slope area of Brooklyn. We have been here just over three weeks and finally we are mostly unpacked. It is great to be here together with my parents. They have helped us in every possible way, including cooking for us, helping with laundry, baby sitting, helping with unpacking, shopping, driving us around. It is simply amazing. Without them, we would very likely still be scrambling to live out of half-unpacked boxes.
Katya is doing great. She is just about 10 lbs now and she’s very active. She has started smiling, laughing and cooing. She has new facial expressions everyday now. It is astounding to watch our relatives and ancestors flit across her face. One moment she looks like Peter, then like her grandfather, then like her uncle… then like something quite new, expressions that must be hers alone. She is eating well and often. We are waiting for her to truly start sleeping through the night. Now she sleeps about 6 hours at a time during the night… better than 4, but worse than 8. If you haven’t recently looked, we are consistently posting new photos to her website, http://katya.shkin.com.