Getting closer to buying a house.

We went to the house again yesterday to look at the retaining walls (in the rain) with a landscape gardener. Apparently it is not as bad as we first thought.

There is one wall at the side of the house that is rotting and needs replacing, but it isn’t a big job and would cost only about $500 to fix. There is another wall that’s on a bit of a lean, but isn’t going anywhere any time soon. It would also cost about $500 to fix. The main big wall that is on a lean has apparently already been reinforced. If it fell it would be about $3000 to fix, but as it has been reinforced, it shouldn’t fall – we hope!

We have decided we are willing to take the risk, and we still want to proceed with buying the house.

Of course the bank is taking it’s sweet time to approve our home loan. We have conditional approval based on our incomes and assets and all of that. We are only waiting for the bank to value the house, then we can buy it! We have until Tuesday. We hope the bank will give us approval by then, or the vendor will allow us another few days. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh the stress of it all!!!

In other news, our little toddlers are doing great. They are happy healthy boys. They are starting to run and it’s very cute and very funny.

Tracie was reading a book about toddlers, and it said that a small amount of toddlers at this age can follow a two step verbal command without gestures. So we decided to test them. We were sitting on the couch and the boys were playing and walking around the room. Tracie and Sal were having a discussion about what specific two step command we could try. Tracie said to Sal “maybe we could ask him to go get igglepiggle and bring it to mumma – Do you think that’s a good step command???” (they have an igglepiggle toy - which is a character a tv show the boys like). Ethan must have been listening to our conversation, because without even being directly asked he immediately walked over to igglepiggle, picked him up and brought him over to his mumma. Such a clever boy!!! There are many situations like this each week when we are continually amazed about how much they listen to us, and how much they take in that we don’t realise. We really have to be careful what we say around them now!!!