Boxes and Cookies

When you talk about moving and small children are involved you always hear these stories of how traumatized kids can be when they move. I don't know if it is because Tobias is too young for that, or if we did something right, or because he is just a layed back kid, but Tobias seems to really like our new house and his new room and everthing.

What we did is involve him every step of the way (except the day we moved all our stuff). We involved him in decorating his room, putting his furniture back together, hanging his curtains, unpacking boxes, everything. And he enjoyed everything. He was lugging his toy-tools around and "helping" us with everything we did. He also helped vacuuming and cleaning and stuff like that. Anyway, from day one he has talked about "Tobias' new room" and loved it. He has not been waking up or screeming or any of the other things you hear about small children moving.... So, we are happy about that.

Here he is on the first day we stayed at our new place. Like I told you our stuff was already here. That day we did a lot of cleaning and rearranging so that we could actually live here... Tobias found all those boxes quite interesting although I think at this particular moment his attention was more with the cookies he is holding and eating... :-).