How smart is he!

Here is a picture of my cayenne pepper plant. We have to watch that none are hanging down because he can't figure out that when he bites them it burns his mouth. He keeps going back for more!
BUT........









At 8wks old he sits on command. Comes when prompted.


and will ring the bell when ready to go out if no one is paying attention.

What a sweet innocent puppy!

What a sweet innocent little angel! Or is he? When left alone and in the above dog carrier for maybe 30 minutes, this is what happened:

Story by Alexis

Alexis had to write a story using 10 of her spelling words. Here is what she wrote (her spelling)

Once opon a time lived a girl. She had Bells plloze. Her smile was unusual. We hope it would go away. She rote a note about her life. She had a huge letter to write about her life. Then someone was at the door. She opened the wide door. It was her friend. She wanted to know if she could come over. I got a puppy and its mine. Next year she would be in 3rd grade. It was a true story.
The End. By: Alexis E.

New Puppy

Here are pics of our new puppy. We are having trouble choosing a name so we are looking for any suggestions. No one knows what he is a mix of, possibly black lab (judging from his litter mates) and some sort of terrier judging by his face. The hardware store next to our store had a customer bring in 8 puppies. Two that look like the one that choose us and 6 pure black. This one climbed in my lap and kept coming back no matter how much I put him down to pick up his siblings. Andy brought him home while I went pick up the kids so that we could surprise them. When we got home he said "he already peed and pooped on the floor". However, we fed him and gave him water and 20 minutes later he went to the back door and whined. I let him out and after a couple of minutes he came back to the door. I went out with him and gave him a treat at his "bathroom spot" (or where I'd like it to be). He ate the treat up and as we were walking towards the house I noticed that he had chosen a different "bathroom spot". Good dog! We brought him inside and he slept for a while, got up drank some water, and went to the back door. We took him out and off he went. Potty outside again. Just goes to show you that with a little work he'll be housetrained in no time. (I hope!) So any suggestions as to a name? "Buddy" and "Baby" are two different things we've called him so far to try and get his attention. Nothing sticking yet. PLEASE NO MAX!!! Long horrible story if you don't know!





PS Here is a pic I just took of Alexis to compare to last week's pic.









Today (Aug 13) Last week (Aug 7)

Crazyness! Pure crazyness!

Sorry I haven't posted in a while but with going back to school with a third grader and a kindergartener life has been crazy. Not feeling to well this week so today's post will be quick and to the point.


Here is the absolute latest pic of Alexis 99% back to normal. I don't expect her to have any more recovery than she has now as she is pretty much as far as she could possibly get. Her left eye doesn't close as much as her right when she smiles but as I stated in the previous post it never did.

Nicolas is doing well in school. He likes it but is having a problem with talking when he is not suppose to be talking. He has "fallen off the hook" twice and has had several warnings. Of course you really can't blame him too much. Andy told him to become friends with the son of the principal. He did and now this child is corrupting my little angel. (How many parents have said that about their child only to have their child be the one who is starting the trouble?)

Alexis likes third grade. She is learning that she has to be responsible for her work and no one is going to "hold her hand" anymore and walk her through life picking everything up and making sure things are done. She hasn't had any trouble (yet) but there have been some close calls.

So here is my post for this week. Hopefully there will be more this week as I have a lot in my head to say but don't seem to have enough time to type it.

Where's yours, July 15th?

Love you all