Some Updates:

There is so much goodness happening for us right now. We feel so blessed. We closed on the house on Friday. The keys will be ours tomorrow. We have another month on our lease at the apartment so we will slowly move into the house over the next few weeks. There are a few little projects we want to get to before our living space becomes our official home. I love that we can plan these projects and that they're *ours*. We are looking for house-sized furniture now and bought our first grown up sofa yesterday. It's new and it's big and it's gorgeous. I love it.

Clementine is more adorable and funnier than ever. She has learned to give closed-mouth kisses and to blow kisses, too. I love kisses. She has created words/sounds that are all her own. Her favorite is the word "Bia," and it means all things. She points to her binky, cup, window, sticker, etc. and says "BIA!" she wanders around the house sing-songing "BiaBiaBiaBiaBia" and today at Target was shouting at me "BIABIABIABIABIABIA!!" She loves to play dress: she puts on her coats, shoes, daddy's boxers as a hat and mommy's socks wherever she can fit them. She is more and more fun every day. We can't wait to let her loose in our new space!

The worrisome news in our little family is about our boy Jack. Right around the new year he was diagnosed with a pretty significant anal gland infection along with a number of abscesses. We've been treating it since then and it still hasn't gone away. At the vet this weekend, the vet said we need to get rid of this infection in the next week; our check up is on Saturday morning to discuss our options. Our dream for this house includes the Dude and we want him to know the joy of his own backyard. Please think good thoughts for our canine-son (ok, *my* canine son).