Work, Apartment, the Midwest, Visitors and 7 Months!

This will be a long update! Sorry it took so long to get pictures of the apartment up. First, I started my job on Monday! I only worked until yesterday, Wednesday. I have Thursday and Friday off! The first week of work was good. It was a lot of reading orientation manuals and taking little quizzes on the info. If you have ever worked in a hospital or medical type setting the orientations for those places are always usually similar and long. I am still not finished with it all, but have a huge chunk done.

Everyone I work with is so nice. I will be working between two hospitals that are about 10 minutes apart. I have only been at one of the hospitals so far though. I am a Patient Ambassador, so I basically make sure that patients are comfortable and pleased with their rooms and care for their rooms. I work in the Environmental Services department. My office is in the basement of the hospital, so no windows. Fortunately I will be on the floors of the hospitals alot, so that should balance that all out nicely. There are times I like to be in a dark room organizing! :)

I've done pretty good being away from Norah. The hospital has a thing where they play a lullaby over the loud speakers when a baby is born, which is nice, but I instantly tear up and have to distract myself so I do not start to cry.

Ok, on to our apartment! I put up a bunch of pictures so I will just start going through them and explaining.

This is from the door, you walk in and look right and this is the kitchen/dining room.

The cupboards are much bigger than we expected and we can get a lot of stuff in them. We actually have a lot of bare space, so we could not be happier.

This is our baker's rack which has proven to be well worth the money.
We have used it so much in the last two years!

This is the dining room looking into the living room.
Hopefully our wireless will work soon so we do not have to sit at the table!

This is Norah's seat that she eats in, her play pen which is not usually there, but has been helpful for dad when he needs to get a shower during the day while I am at work. :)

This is our living room area. It's a nice little area to be in. We actually do not use the AC too much because there is always a nice breeze. Unless it is near 90 then we turn it on.

This is the entertainment corner, lots going on, but fun!

This is the beginning of the hallway where the pictures are. We put tons of pictures up of family and friends so we think of you all often! That is also a free desk that we got, but we will be replacing it down the road as it does not meet our decoration appetite!

On to Norah's room! This is her shelf that Josh built that holds all of her goodies!

Here is her bed! She loves her crib. She slept in the pack n' play from the time she was born because we were all in one room in Wheeling. It's nice for all of us to have our own rooms!

This is a handmade mobile made by dad for Norah! She loves watching it blow in the wind!

This is a close up of the carpet we got, which I love! We had received something from Pottery Barn Kids that we returned and once we moved out here to Chicago we bought a carpet for Norah's room that I think goes perfect!

The other side of the room!

Here is Norah sleeping in her swing while I take pictures!
(Yes, she has a mohawk in case you are wondering. We will get to that later.)

This is Norah's closet. The closet's are huge! You will see our bedrooms in a minute. There is also one in the hallway by the door, but I must have forgot to upload that picture. It took me awhile to get all of them organized the way I wanted.

Here is the bathroom. The window freaked me out at first, but now I like it because it airs out the bathroom really quick after you take a shower.

The bathroom is very small. I am still trying to figure out my "getting ready" routine. I just cannot lay everything out in the order I use it, so I get frustrated. I'm working on my attitude! :)

Here is our room!

Corner bookshelf which we love and were glad for the tall ceilings.

Here is another purchase that was well worth it! We have an elevator, so this laundry organizing cart is awesome!!! I really love it more than I probably should. :)

And the big honking closet! I moved stuff around so many times in that first week we were here. Josh would have to see what I did each day and be questioned as to whether he thought the space was being used to the best of it's abilities!

The End of the tour!

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This past weekend Tim, Marisa, Grandma and Grandpa Elek and the best of all Bailey came to visit! Now you may ask yourself, why would you put a little baby on a German Sheppard?! Well, you don't know Bailey, she's very calm and well behaved and Norah loved her!
They both gave kisses all weekend to each other! Baily just has better aim!

Well, Norah got a mohawk from dad yesterday! He was so excited about it!
Norah didn't seem to mind either!

Happy 7 months Norah!!! Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!!!