House Hunting

What a day! We started at 9:30 this morning looking at houses. We looked at 7 houses this morning before noon and one more this evening. There was a couple that we liked, but it needed a lot of work. Most of the others were really old, really trashed, or needed a ton of work. That was kind of disappointing, but we gained a greater understanding of why some of those homes have been on the market for so long. Oh well, we'll keep looking since we only started looking seriously 2 weeks ago and have only seen a little more than a dozen houses so far.

The funny thing is that Benjamin thinks it is a great adventure. He asks to play with the toys and run in the backyard at every house we go to. He wants us to find a new house soon so that he can have a basketball hoop and a dog. We try to tell him that he can only have one thing at a time. Today he helped us count the bathrooms in one of the houses and told us which house he liked the best. When we tell him that the toys don't come with the house he changes his mind on which house he likes the most.

Bekah has been a trooper. She smiles and coos at everyone we visit and the tell us how cute she is. She even let the dogs get up in her face at one house today. (They were poodles that were smaller than her.) Looking at houses doesn't bother her as long as she is moving and out of her car seat.

If anyone has any suggestions on house hunting we welcome them. This process is more tedious than we imagined, but it is nice not to feel like we have to rush into a home and there is a lot on the market to look at.