Goodbye 110!

After 6 years of happy residence we packed up and moved out of apartment 1C. It was difficult saying goodbye to the many conveniences (A train! 4 playgrounds in walking distance! 12 Dominican restaurants in 2 blocks!) of Washington Heights, and even harder to say goodbye to all the wonderful friends who lived mere steps from our front door. We were ready for the change and spent a while preparing.


One thing I will not miss was the all white bathroom and all white kitchen. Keeping those spaces looking clean was close to impossible! That being said, the kitchen was where Owen had his first bath and the bathroom was witness to many a great tubby time. As I type these sweet memories, I can hear Owen in the new bathtub (this one is pink) screaming "Lick a dog, Lick a dog." Eric is bathing him and as baffled as I am at this proclamation. Apparently there will be many weird memories at this place.


Here is a grainy picture that offers a taste of the chaos in the days before we moved.


Here is a better, but equally grainy shot of our final night at 110 Bennett.



Owen was happy to say goodbye to lackluster pizza and hello to the land of Jaspers and Dinos. He is such a pizza snob. Yes, Georges and Exclusive are health code disasters but I thought the pizza was pretty darn good.



Schleppers packed up our stuff while nanny and poppy whisked Owen away on moving day. We were thrilled by both service providers.


Eric and I posed for one last picture. 110 Bennett was a place we came to when we were newly married. We had no idea that it would be where we started our family. There were many wonderful memories in that apartment. That being said, leaving wasn't too hard considering the best parts of living there was being together, and we get to take that with us wherever we go.


Hopefully the toddler nuttiness that was first recognized in Washington Heights was not restricted to that zip code. Here is one of the last videos I took of Owen at the old place:



* On a side-note, about 10 people have asked me whether our next kid will have "Fieldston" as a middle name considering Owen's middle name was an homage to the place we lived when he was born. The answer is no. Our next child's middle name will be "Herbert." Male of female, it will be Herbert.