Movin' on Up . . . to Bronxville

As of Thursday, we are officially moved into our new apartment in Bronxville. Carolyn will start her new job next Wednesday. We have only had a couple of days to unpack and get settled, so of course we still have a lot of unpacking, organizing, and decorating to do (putting up curtains, pictures, etc.). This is also the first unfurnished apartment we have lived in, so we need to buy some furniture: a dining room set, some dressers, some side tables. . . we did buy a very large wall piece/ entertainment center for our living room. We got it off of Craig's list from a very nice man who lives not far from us. It holds a lot of things, including our new, very fancy (for us) cable box that has DVR and "on demand" and other things that we don't know exactly how they work yet. I do know that I was able to record a tv show, watch it later yesterday night, and fast forward through the commercials. It's the future today!
It will definitely take some getting used to living in the 'burbs. Today I took Avery for a walk in his stroller to a nearby shopping center to hit up Starbucks and the CVS pharmacy. There are lots of sidewalks here, but I didn't see a lot of other pedestrians. However, it's walkable. And there are some parks nearby, plus the Bronx botanical garden, AND the Bronx zoo! The train station is a short walk away. And that train gets to Manhattan in something like 20 minutes. We'll figure everything out soon. In the meantime, here are some pictures of our new place. It is at once cluttered with boxes and unpacking debris, and empty due to our lack of furniture:

We decided to paint Avery's room green. It is bigger than his old bedroom, with more space to play:

This is the master bedroom. We have 2 closets, 1 each! This is a big improvement over our Manhattan apartment where our entire apartment contained 2 very small closets total. We also have a tiny bathroom, and a patio. The view of the highway is not exactly beautiful, but we are looking forward to having an outdoor space for BBQs and such:




Our yellow kitchen is definitely bigger than our old one. It's hard to tell, but there is enough space for some additional cabinets and/or a small table and chairs.


Standing inside the kitchen looking out: to the right is our 2nd (also very small) bathroom. Straight ahead is our foyer/office. Beyond that (where there are stacks of boxes) will be our dining room, as soon as we get a dining room table and chairs! Then around the corner to the right is our living room: