We closed on our house today!!! We could not be more excited. This whole year has been surreal thus far; welcoming DD in February and now closing on our first home. We told SS10 that we were moving this weekend and his face lit up. He was really excited. 

DH emailed BM, letting her know we closed and he provided the new address. She just responded "Sounds good." Oh the irony that starting today, BM has to drive that "unsafe backroad" (aka major US freeway) that she complained about to our new house. 

We had a nice weekend with SS10. We hosted SS10's birthday party yesterday with family and friends and had a really nice time. SS did great with DD, although we did alter the sleeping arrangements to ensure he got enough sleep. This morning, SS even wanted to feed her a bottle and did a really good job, which we praised him heavily for. We offered for him to take some of his birthday presents home, but he declined, saying that if he took them home, they would disappear. He hugged us all and told us he was really excited to come back this summer. 

So SS10 comes to visit this weekend. He will be here tomorrow to Sunday as makeup time for visitation he had to skip due to a basketball tournament in February. We let BM know that we will be staying at my parent's house for the whole weekend because our apartment is packed up due to us closing on our house in a week or so. 

We Facetime with DH twice per week, usually on Sundays and Tuesdays. Last summer, BM accused DH of abuse and in her email accusations, she informed DH that SS is "very uncomfortable" with us eavesdropping on SS' phone calls with BM and GF during our visitation. We found this hilarious because it is impossible to eavesdrop on their calls; SS always runs directly to his room or the farthest room away from us, locks the door, and whispers to them like everything is a big secret. It's a huge production and what we have overheard involves BM and GF interrogating SS about us nonstop.