Puppy Parenting Update

Sheba is growing everyday like puppies do, heavier, stronger, more coordinated, more inexhaustible energy, curious and quick to learn. She potties outside 99% of the time, sits on command, gets away with jumping and nipping Lydia exclusively, and only goes after the magazines, baskets, chair legs, and rug corners for chew toys tentatively. You say her name and she runs back to her own blanket with its stash of toys that she keeps rounded up possessively.

Sheba's a good dog!

Alphabet Cookies

Gabe and Lydia have these letter cutouts for our own alphabet cookies. Thank you Aunt Janelle from Gabe and Liddy! I found a recipe online here and finally purposed to try them out. We closed our 1st grade homeschool year with celebrating 100. We made 100 letters with some to spare.

When Daddy got home, we enjoyed our names. They were yummy too! Lydia added H to hers and Gabe lengthened his to Gabriel, as they were bemoaning his or her name being the shortest!

Wagons, Boys, and Puppy Dog Tails

Labrador Retriever

No reputable breeder, no AKC papers, of random parentage..., but Sheba strikes a pretty pose for the breed at six and a half weeks old.



Introducing Sheba

Day 1 of puppy madness. This was Marshal madness! I have a happy household with the addition of a six week old chocolate labrador. I cried beforehand with the idea, so I know what I've given into for my husband. But who can resist chocolate. This chocolate is irresistible.Here are three sleepy-heads after our first short night with Sheba! It was a late night to bed and early to rise with wake up calls in between.

Whose house is this? We had to clarify that one!

Tirza and Sheba, nose to nose.


Ahhh....

Transport Homeward

Free Ferry, crossing the Columbia R.

Handsome ruddy whiskers on the mountain man at heart, headed back to the city at the end of the week.

Driving over the Narrows at sunset.

Cabin Living

My Happy Hikers

Tirza looking like a black squirrel in her special spot.