we are homeowners!

We are now officially homeowners, and our days as apartment dwellers are numbered. Wahoooooo! We had the closing today. It went smoothly and everything is good. I wrote out the biggest check I have ever written today. That was an adventure. Then for a short time today I had an equally large cashier's check riding around in the car with me. I was paranoid about leaving the car to go into the store, as if people could tell just by looking that it had a check in it for so much money.

We will take possession of the house early next week. The current - er, the old - owners are moving out Monday, so it will probably be Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning before we get the keys. I can't wait to get in there and walk around and know that it's ALL MINE! But there's so much to do now. I have to get the utilities set up and a carpet cleaning scheduled. I have to finally decide on how I'm painting Gavin's room and go buy paint. Then I have to paint his room. I have to decide if I'm going to paint other rooms in the house, and if so, what color scheme.

Gavin did the funniest thing tonight. I sat down at my computer desk and had him up on my shoulder. He was looking backwards towards Jason's computer. Jason got up and left, and had all the windows closed so you could see the wallpaper on the desktop, which happens to be a picture of my face. Gavin started wiggling his legs and cooing. I looked and saw that his gaze was riveted on Jason's computer screen. He noticed me on the screen and was absolutely enthralled. He was laughing and talking to the me on the computer. It was hilarious!