A Boy and His Dog

It seems such a short time ago that we decided to purchase a small puppy. 

He was a lot of work, but I enjoyed (almost) every minute of it. It's been fun to watch our toddler and our puppy grow up together, and I am pretty proud of both of them. 

Both Kevin and the puppy have certainly grown since last September. As of November, I started taking pictures of them in the same chair so that we could see more easily the changes in both the boy and his dog. 

So, here is a brief set of pictures to show exactly how much they have changed. 

 Mostly, the dog has gotten a lot bigger, while Kevin has matured a bit as well. And yes, I did Photoshop t-shirts on Kevin in a couple of the pictures. Don't want my son exposed after all. :)

Kevin loves his puppy. He loves his old dog as well, but she doesn't play very much. Kevin and Arkhon chase each other around almost all day and they really like to wrestle. One of their favorite games is for Kevin to hide under a blanket and Arkhon to try and get him out. Kevin laughs and laughs and you can tell that Arkhon is having a good time too. If he gets his nose under the blanket, he'll lick Kevin and tickle him.

Whenever we watch a youtube clip of a dog, Kevin immediately looks around to find Arkhon.

Arkhon is now completely housetrained. It has been a while since he's had an accident.

Dakota, on the other hand, has had a couple in the last few months. She's getting old, after all.

Arkhon has stopped chewing on toys, and now that the grass is longer, he isn't digging in the backyard anymore either. His main issue at the moment is that he gets really excited and will jump on people still, but we're working on it. He's a smart boy, and I'm confident that he'll get it as he matures and calms down.

We still haven't neutered him, but we have trained him not to hump, which is huge for me, because that's always been my least favorite part of male dogs. He occasionally will get too excited when he's playing with other dogs and try it on them, but we stop that pretty quickly. He's super submissive to other dogs and gets along with nearly every one of them.

However, he's also getting a good growl and bark on him. When people come in front of our house, he lets off a deep growl and then a good deep bark.

It's nice to have a guard dog around to keep my son safe.

Family Friday: New House

So, things are moving pretty smoothly toward us buying this home. We found out it has a few things that need to be fixed, but the majority of the house is in good shape, if in need of some TLC (Tender Loving Care, for those of you who are not hip :)).

I'm pretty excited to get moving. It will be nice to be permanently (until further notice) settled in our own place. We have seen a lot of miracles and received a lot of help and we are pretty grateful. Here's a few pictures of what is nearly our new home.

Obviously I'm not going to post a picture of the front on here, but at least you can get an idea of what some of the inside looks like.

Here is the front room. The entry is split level.

This play place comes with the property.

This will be Kevin's bedroom. He loves it!

I'm so excited for this kitchen!

I really like this house. I does need some maintenance done, but we had the inspection done yesterday and they found three fairly major things that need fixing while the rest of it is just minor repairs.

We're still praying that everything goes well. We're at the point in the process where we've finished the inspection, and we've paid our earnest money. We are now poor, but moving forward.

Here's to a new family home.

Thanks again for your prayers!