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Wow, it's been a little bit since I've last written. I've been so busy getting stuff done here. We're loving our new house, but holy crap, it was so much work to paint everything and get things set up and put blinds up. Everything is pretty much done and set up, and I've been working on decorating. My aunt took me to a really nice decorating store and gave me a gift card, which was really awesome because a lot of the stuff that I used to decorate our apartment with doesn't really go well in the house.
One of Curt's co-workers gave us one of her dogs that she couldn't keep anymore due to renting. His name is Charlie and he's hyper and cute. He's a Chihuahua/Jack Russel Terrier mix, so I guess a JackChi. We lost him the first night we got him, which made us feel like horrible dog parents. We put him out back thinking that he'd be able to run around the backyard and not be cooped up while we went out to buy house stuff. We got back and he was nowhere to be found (we're still not quite sure how he escaped, we thought it might have been a small space under the gate so we filled it in with some rocks), so we went looking for him around the neighborhood (which was mostly dark and half of it still under construction) we finally found him after about a half-hour of insanity. We were also having issues with him going to the bathroom on the floor, but we've since smoothed that out for the most part and learned his cues and know when to let him outside. Oddly, when he goes to the bathroom in the house now it's always in front of one of the toilets (which I still don't like, but it's much better to clean it up there compared to the carpet.)
Riah turned 20 months today. She's starting to use 2 words at a time such as "apple juice", "charlie('s) food", "momma('s) shoe", "thank you", she even says "i love you" and sometimes will sign it. She loves animals and plants and being outside. It makes me wish that we had our backyard finished so that she had a place to play with plants and rocks and grass. It's just a whole lot of dirt right now. I want to start my vegetable garden after the really bad heat lets up, maybe I can get her to help with digging and other garden stuff.
Curt is now running his own store, which he loves, aside from the earlier hours that he is still not quite used to. We're both not really used to it, I'm still up pretty late (yay insomnia?) but I'm happy that he gets to eat dinner with Riah and I every day now.
One of Curt's co-workers gave us one of her dogs that she couldn't keep anymore due to renting. His name is Charlie and he's hyper and cute. He's a Chihuahua/Jack Russel Terrier mix, so I guess a JackChi. We lost him the first night we got him, which made us feel like horrible dog parents. We put him out back thinking that he'd be able to run around the backyard and not be cooped up while we went out to buy house stuff. We got back and he was nowhere to be found (we're still not quite sure how he escaped, we thought it might have been a small space under the gate so we filled it in with some rocks), so we went looking for him around the neighborhood (which was mostly dark and half of it still under construction) we finally found him after about a half-hour of insanity. We were also having issues with him going to the bathroom on the floor, but we've since smoothed that out for the most part and learned his cues and know when to let him outside. Oddly, when he goes to the bathroom in the house now it's always in front of one of the toilets (which I still don't like, but it's much better to clean it up there compared to the carpet.)
Riah turned 20 months today. She's starting to use 2 words at a time such as "apple juice", "charlie('s) food", "momma('s) shoe", "thank you", she even says "i love you" and sometimes will sign it. She loves animals and plants and being outside. It makes me wish that we had our backyard finished so that she had a place to play with plants and rocks and grass. It's just a whole lot of dirt right now. I want to start my vegetable garden after the really bad heat lets up, maybe I can get her to help with digging and other garden stuff.
Curt is now running his own store, which he loves, aside from the earlier hours that he is still not quite used to. We're both not really used to it, I'm still up pretty late (yay insomnia?) but I'm happy that he gets to eat dinner with Riah and I every day now.