Congratulations! Chocolate labs are the BEST! They are quite smart and, as I'm sure you know already, so lovable. Ours was very easy to train - she was housebroken very quicky and knew all basic commands within 4 weeks of us getting her (we got ours at 7 weeks old). Love the picture - I take it that was the first bath upon homecoming, we have almost an identical picture of ours!