Just Stuff

Someone got shaved for the summer!  Our guy is great- he doesn't make her look stupid.

EJ had a great end-of-year project. The kids learned all about marketing, manufacturing (cost/profit) and etc. Then they made an item to sell. They had to determine price, create digital and print advertisements.  Then they saw how much profit they made based on the cost for producing.  She came up with the idea to make yarn dolls and did them herself. 

I love that this girl still loves to wear princess dresses. This is her "castle" she put together one day. She and Bear each had "rooms" that they made up.

Happy to say that the produce boxes from Bountiful Baskets are still going strong as the favorite toy in our house with all children of all ages!

October: Rainstorm

I can't think of anything better to do during a warm TX rainstorm than to go outside and get good and muddy in your unders, can you?

Cuddles with Rosie

 

Life with Rosie

We have all settled in nicely into life with our fur child, Rosie.  She gets lots of loves and cuddles and loves nothing more than to have her belly rubbed!

She and Bear are still BFF's.  He tells me several times a day "I wuv Wosie, Mommy" and "Wosie is my best fwiend!" but don't forget "I HATE Wosie!".  So they pretty much get along like siblings :)  I am always catching him letting her lick his fingers at the table and "accidentally" dropping food.  Little punk.  And yes, they still make out every day.

The girls love her lots, too. She is a (mostly) patient dress-up doll and is lots of fun to play "chase" and "tug" with in the back yard.  EJ is doing great at her "poop patrol" duties and rarely complains.

Let me tell you how fun it is to have a white dog and a muddy yard. She has gotten pretty good about stopping at the door and letting me towel her off after playing in the mud.



I have quite a job keeping up with her urge to chew everything in sight, though. I have spent a small fortune on rawhide and the like. She loves to crunch ice and Bear has taken it upon himself to give her "daily ice". 

 

Bear is also really good at playing "tug" and giving her breakfast and dinner every day. 

In spite of the stuffed-animal deaths, muddy paws, and new trick of snatching food off of the table, we love our Rosie-dog!

Meet Rosie!

Hey everyone! Meet the newest addition to our family- Rosie!  Some of you may have noticed while we were in UT that I've been a *little* dog-hungry :)  I couldn't help but start to surf rescue sites when we got back.  We went to a local no-kill shelter to check out another dog, an adorable lahsa-poo that was perfect- playful, over a year old, and sweet as can be.  After much deliberation we decided he was our dog.  Sadly, he failed the "cat test"- growling and barking at cats.  The kids and I were both really sad.

 

After we got home I decided that we weren't ready to get a dog yet and we should wait until after school started.  However, I couldn't stop thinking about a sweet little dog that we saw when we were at the shelter.  We couldn't take her out to meet her, because she had just been spayed.  I finally decided to go back a couple of days later and check her out.  We met her, she got along with the kids very well and was just the sweetest, softest girl ever.  We were all happy when she passed the cat test and we took her home with us.

There were so many things that shouldn't have worked with her- she had only been at the shelter for a couple of days (she was picked up as a stray) and no one knew much about her.  There was no evidence that she was potty trained and she didn't show any interest in playing ball or anything like that (something we really wanted).  I'm so glad we took a gamble on her!

In the past week that we've had her, we are seeing her personality more and more.  She is smart- she learned to be quiet in her crate after only 2 nights.  She is mostly calm and not a big barker.  She loves the cats and really, really wants to play with them- they aren't interested, to say the least.  She is learning better leash manners and getting better at not jumping on new people.  She has almost learned to go to her crate when she's told (at night).  She has only had one accident in the house on the first day home and seems to be pretty much housebroken. She loves sticks and chewing on ice. 

She's shown an interest in chewing on things that she isn't supposed to, also.  She chewed up a pair of Bear's sandals a stuffed animal (yay dog! Eat them all!) and a toy shark (Dog vs. Shark= Dog Wins!).  However, we bought her some chewies and are more careful about keeping an eye on her and not leaving things out where she likes to hang out and chew when she's bored.

 

All the kids really love her.  We have all enjoyed taking her for walks - it has even helped us meet some neighbors!  We are really lucky to have found her!