Saturday, April 25, 2009

B-A-R-K spells SUCCESS!

Ok, so I just had to share that for the FIRST time, Cole has let us know he had to go outside to do his business when neither Ryan or I have been in the room with him!

Lately he has started heading to the door we take him out of (yay!), but if we don't notice it he'll just have an accident in the house. Well, today he was having a little bit of freedom because he'd just recently gone #1 outside and neither Ryan or I were in the room with him and we heard this little 'bark' and we both went running. Sure enough, he was by the door we take him out of and he popped outside and went #1 and #2 and then popped back in! You would have totally thought he won a major award or something because WE WERE SO EXCITED!!!!

Here he is after his big event!

Wonderful baby shower!

We had our first baby shower Easter Weekend. Ryan's cousin, Robin and his sister Amy threw a beautiful shower and it meant a lot to me!

I LOVE FRUIT!


Adorable cake and beautiful setting!


Ellie (Amy's daughter - our niece) helping me open gifts:


Kicking back:


All the loot (the nursery needs some attention)!

Our other babies

The furry ones are doing well. Cole had his 4th puppy obedience class last night and it's making a world of difference! He'll now sit, lie down and 'watch me' which literally means he has a staring match with us. Last night we started working on him coming to us (ummmm... momma - a.k.a. me has been indulging him with the chase game so who knows if he'll ever learn the 'come' command. ;) )as well as staying. The staying one is very very important and I can't wait until he has that one down!

I am also happy to report we are having fewer accidents now. He has started learning to tell us (by disappearing and heading towards the door downstairs) that he has to go outside. He still has accidents of #1 way more frequently than momma would like but we are getting there. Hmmmm - only 3 months later. Haha. But he is a good puppy and I was thrilled to hear he was on his best behavior when he stayed with Ryan's parents when we went to St. Louis for several days. Whew! I was afraid he wouldn't be invited back!

Right now he is lying on his bed here in my office (which he likes to flip over and lay on the bed while it's upside down - who knows...) happily chewing his chewie. Aaaaahhhh - a few moments of blissful quietness to let me work on my blog!

The kitties are hanging in there as best they can. Cole doesn't understand why they don't want to play and he's very protective of mom and dad and usually shoos them away if they lay right where he wants to lie. We are working on that!

Here is little bud-bud enjoying the snow (yes his little back legs are up in the air because he was running crazy)!



And here he is being such a good puppy lying in the sun and Bell lying fairly close to him! There is hope!

Long time no blog!

Ok - so if anyone is still even following this anymore since I have been soooo horrible about posting the last few weeks - hello!

Things are going well here. We have 8 weeks to go which seems crazy to me! Sasha is progressing well and each Dr. visit lasts maybe 3 minutes (I go every 2 weeks) and he says, yep, things look good. :) We'll get another very quick u/s in about 4 weeks or so just to make sure she is head's down (please please please) but he thinks she is because of where he finds her heartbeat.

She definitely has her quiet and her active days. I'll go for a few days and have to poke my belly or drink ice water and lay down to get her to move. Then other days I'll literally think she is going to come out of my stomach!!!

Can't believe we are nearing the end of pregnancy!

Here I am at the St. Louis zoo a couple of weeks ago. Ummmm - this picture makes me realize I need to let those pants go!