Well...we finally did it.  We own our first home!  Well actually in 30 years after the bank allows us to give them our hard earned paychecks every month it will be ours.  But we get to live in it in the meantime.  It only took two houses, six inspections (yes six thanks to a very shady house flipper aka the seller on our first house and Hurricane Irene on the second) and six months to get it done but we finally got it.  It was well worth the wait and frustration.  Needless to say watching the show House Hunters for many years did NOT prepare me for the journey one bit.  It was a bank owned forclosure so we have quite a bit of cosmetic work ahead of us but I think it is going to look great when we are done with it.  We have already gotten our first taste of home ownership when the new lock we put on the front door broke after just two days and we were locked in the house.  It took me going out through the garage and rigging the handle while Dontae turned the key and rigged it from the inside to free us.  Oh the journey we have ahead of us.

Niko is already in love with all of the space and the fact that we have some south facing windows so that he can lay in the sun all day long.

We got Taedon dedicated at church a couple of Sunday's ago.  Can't wait to hang up his beautiful plaque in his room once we are moved in.  We had the same pastor that married us do his dedication so it was very special and a fun day spent in Annapolis.

Taedon will probably give me the silent treatment when he is older for posting this picture but I can't resist.  It is so cute.  He LOVES bath time these days.  I am excited to get him into swimming lessons or even just a pool next summer and see him go.  He loves to kick and splash in the bath so much that the other night I ended up pretty wet myself.

I have been teaching Taedon to give Niko his milkbone after we take him out for his walks and we almost have it to where Taedon will give it directly to him without trying to sample it first.  Niko is so sweet when he takes it out of Taedon's hand even when Taedon forgets to let go.  The other night I was eating some animal crackers (Niko's favorite human food snack next to Wheat Thins) and I had quite the audience while eating so I gave Taedon a cracker to feed Niko and he couldn't stop laughing.  Needless to say Niko had way more cookies than he should have but it made for a really cute video.