A little of everything

So, we still don't have internet at the house.  Jay's coworker Dave loaned us his internet for the weekend as he goes home and doesn't need it then.  Finally, it's been almost a week with no internet for me so I got lots to update.  We also don't have a phone yet either. 

Okay, so we've moved into our house.  We have furniture in most of the rooms with the last couple of rooms being furnished soon.  We get our other couch on Thursday and the guest bed has been ordered. 

Joe lost his first tooth on Tuesday!  Finally!!!  It is considered late at 7 1/2 years old.  He turned 7 1/2 late last month so we were happy he finally lost it.  The tooth fairy gave him 50 cents for it.  He was thrilled! 

He's got another loose one so we'll see how long it takes to come out. 

We played at an indoor playground at McDonald's and now Sam has some sort of creeping crud.  His eyes are yucky and his nose is running.  Yuck. 

We visited the Tomaree Education Center on Wednesday.  This is the local school for us.  It is a large campus with many many buildings.  It houses both the primary and high schools.  The primary and high school are separated by an "out of bounds" area.  Students are only allowed into the OOB area if with a teacher.  In the primary school, each little building houses 4-6 classrooms.  There are two classrooms per grade.  We had an interview and tour with the principal after she signed our paperwork.  We got to meet one of the two second grade teachers.  Tom seems very excited about going to school, while Joe seems hesitant.  We are eagerly awaiting permission to enroll for school.  The principal has already said that we don't have not "apply" to the school.  We will just bring our application on the same day that the boys will start.  Hopefully, that will be soon.  We will be working on finding a school for Sam next week. 

We decided to get cable tv.  This is the first time that we've had cable tv since college (9 years ago!).  It just got installed today.  Of course, we don't have the couch for the room with the tv so the boys just sat on the floor for Playhouse Disney.  They didn't seem to mind. 

We got my new car last weekend and I've spent the week relearning how to drive a manual transmission.  I've driven one for years between both my previous cars and Jay's cars, but this is the first time I've had to shift with my left hand.  The pattern for shifting is still the same, but just with a different hand.  It took some getting used to, but I am doing just fine now.  I really like my car and would recommend it to anyone.  It is not a big SUV, but a sporty wagon thing instead.  It's a Kia Rondo.  It seats 7 people and has pretty good gas consumption.  I'm pretty happy with it so far, though I do miss the room of my Pathfinder. 

One of the first things that I purchased this week was a blender.  I've been wanting a margarita.  Of course, they do not sell any sort of frozen limeade here in Australia.  I purchased some mix and used that, but I will have to come up with some sort of recipe that is closer to the limeade one. 
They also don't seem to sell black beans here, or at least I haven't found any.  It's tricky to make chicken and black bean enchilidas with no black beans.  Just chicken by itself wasn't the same. 

That's all I can think to update right now.  I'm sure I'm forgetting something though.