Our New House (We Hope!)

The 3rd house Noah will have lived in before his 1st birthday … and we plan to be there awhile!

We are officially under contract and nearing the end of our due diligence period on a house in the Dilworth neighborhood of Charlotte. We are jumping through a few last minute hoops on the survey/fence line, but everything is on-schedule for a mid-March close.

In our opinion, Dilworth is one of the best, if not THE BEST area to live in the Charlotte area. It is close to uptown, very walkable, has beautiful parks, excellent schools, and is super safe. We honestly did not think we would find a house at our “price point” in this neighborhood, but our agent knew about this listing before it even went on the market.

The house has a great layout and flow. It has been a rental property for the last two years, so needs some cosmetic updating like new paint and carpets; we are hoping to get some of that taken care of before we move in. It will be a busy few months, getting settled but we plan to be moved in by the end of March.

The great room: This is what you see when you walk in the front door and it is the view that sold me on the house. As soon as I saw those beams, I knew it was “the one.”

Blizzard of 2013

Last week New England was hit with a blizzard for the ages.  In Dover we got more than two feet of snow and in some areas closer to Boston and Connecticut, they received 30 inches! The wind was also blowing like crazy and created huge snow drifts and buried our cars (and recycling bins… still unaccounted for…).

After 2 days of digging out.

Hanging out on top of a snow drift

Hitting the woods for a little snowshoeing.

Greylock loves snow… but with it piled up outside the door, he thought it was some sort of obstacle.  He quickly jumped outside once he realized it was just snow.

8 Months

This picture is pure Noah… Happy and Silly!

This month Noah hit a couple of milestones… first tooth popping through and first stomach virus. EYK! Poor little guy battled the stomach bug with a smile on his face nearly the whole time and I swear he was laughing at Dave and I as we cleaned up the “results” of the bug. The teething just piled right on top of his sickness and we definitely noticed that he was grumpier in the evenings. Ugh, can you imagine what it must feel like to have new teeth coming up through your gums? Not fun.

Noah’s not crawling yet, but he’s thinking about it. 🙂  He is trying to get up on his knees and we’ve caught a couple of glimpses of two hands and one knee in the right position. He is scooting himself around a bit to reach for his toys and Greylock, but I’m sure he has awhile to go before we have a real “crawler” on our hands.

I took two trips this month that forced me to be away for several nights. First a trip to Los Altos, California and Stanford University for a conference on social media for non-profits. It was a great experience and I loved spending time with my peeps from The Kilgoris Project while I was there. The second was a business trip to Charlotte for some client meetings. It was a jam-packed trip to minimize my time away, so I didn’t even get to visit our new house while I was there. Noah was a perfect angel for Dave and Dave was a rockstar taking care of Noah and working full-time I was away.

Does Jules the Bernese Mountain Dog look any different this month?  He took a trip through the washer (and dryer … oops!) after Noah threw up directly into his basket of stuffed animals.  He is looking more like a Berner/Poodle mix these days. The rest of the animals faired better.