Thursday, March 26, 2009

New addition

We added a piano to our condo! We were in some friends' place in downtown St. Louis and they had a great piano that looked awesome. They told us they got a deal on craigslist and we checked and found a great one with a person willing to help deliver! Mani is continuing to grow and learn more tricks!

New Piano

Mani snoozing

His favorite place to be is as close to us as possible

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Condo Work Resumes

Align LeftAfter a lovely 2-month hiatus of work on the condo after our move-in, the work resumed this week. Keri's parents came down from Michigan to help us get jump-started yet again and motivated to finish the first floor. We got some big things done! The first floor is not done yet, but shelves and trim got painted, shoe was put down on the floors, windows were caulked, Keri's dad yet again worked on plumbing issues, and he built a ledge between the kitchen and dining area. It is exciting to work on the place again, but also overwhelming as we're reminded of everything that needs to be done which we were happily oblivious to for a while. My parents also brought their dog and Keri's sister's dog down, so we had some chaotic times with Mani wanting to constantly play with the other two dogs. They worked it all out, but sometimes it was crazy! It was so good to have Keri's parents here. Mani is sleeping through the night (Thank goodness!) and besides a small case of worms is doing well. He's still such a people dog and loves to snuggle up to us when we're hanging out in the evenings. If only we could get "come," "settle" and "heel" down, we'd be doing awesome. He has doubled his weight since we got him (about 12 lbs when we got him and about 25 now) and sometimes we swear he's grown another inch over night. He's going to be a big dog! We're not sure why he has devil green eyes in most of his pictures, but overlook that...he's cute.

A growing puppy-almost knee height on Keri!

Mani with his biggest squeaky dog (none of the four have ears anymore!)

Almost too big to snuggle like this with C.J.

Keri's Mom priming and painting shelves on the 10 ft. ladder

Keri's Dad with the hammer working on the ledge

Dad Ballast with all of the dogs

Mani snuggling after the nail gun went off and scared him