Welcome Home Checkers!!!

Finally the day came! Time to pick up our baby!!! It was a long drive, filled with waaaaaay too many are-we-there-yets and how-much-longers!!! Murray was so exasperated he was mentally planning a new app called "Are We There Yet?" but then figured it probably already exists (it does). We drove as far as his parents' place Friday night and the girls, who were already wound for sound, took it up a notch when Nancy showed them their brand new bunk beds!!! You'd think they'd never seen any before, but they've slept in them many times at my parents. Ha ha!!!

It was quite a wild evening and I wasn't sure they'd EVER get settled down, never mind fall asleep! To top it all off, an equally excited little boy met us at the door and stayed for a sleepover! Mr Bojangles was happy to see his girls!

The next morning it didn't take any prompting or nagging to get breakfast done or jobs completed. They were on a mission and we hit the road by 9am! We couldn't wait to get in the door to see him again!!! It felt like a long time to complete his paperwork, figure out his kennel name, pay up and get back on the road again.

So here are a few pictures from  his first week!

 Meeting Uncle Louis!

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 Checking out his new yard.

 Getting an afterschool cuddle

 

Crashing out after playing hard! (so hard that his sense of smell failed him!) Actually, we find him here quite often! As soon as he comes in from outside, he makes a beeline for the gear bags. If those aren't accessible, he goes to plan B: sleeping in the front closet in the girls' bookbags!