New Addition

As some of you may know, my parents have been hinting at Mari and I to have another baby. Since we are still enjoying they baby that we have...we decided on the next best thing! Yep, as you can see from the pic's below, we added a new pup to the familyShe is a cute husky/german shepard mix that we found at the local animal shelter last week. On Sunday we decided to head on down to the local animal shelter (Spokanimal) and see what kind of creatures they had available. As we were pulling into the parking lot, we saw Ginger (named so because of her color) coming in the door.

Apparently she had been recovered from Riverfront Park earlier that day. Since there is a 3 day waiting period to get a dog and a seemingly mysterious length of time a pup must wait to see the vet and be spayed, Mari and Madi were able to beat everyone else in Spokane to her last Thursday after a great deal of persistance.

She has been a bundle of energy and a lot of fun. We are still in the process of house training her but she is catching on quickly. She was able to stay inside for about 3 hours today without an accident. Mari has already figured out how to bribe Ginger into sitting. Mari's next goal is to teach her to sit (I only wish training Madi was this easy!!).

Misty Dawn Photos

We had Pictures taken recently by Misty... http://www.mistydawnphotos.com/

SHe is still working on the proofs. Here is one pic. I must tell you, Madilyn was being a little stinker. She didn't want to cooperate at all. She is so fun. WHen she is happy she is so happy and smiley. But you cannot make her do anything...ANYTHING she doesn't want to. She is so stubborn and bull headed....makes sense though, look at her Mommy and Daddy. Here is a sample Pic.

What are we gonna do now!!!

Madilyn loves her high chair. Lateley she won't let us buckle her in, she wants to do it. SHe also likes to stand up in her high chair despite our desire for her to NOT! The other day she was in her chair tyring to figure it out how to unbuckle it. I walked into the other room to mop the stairs....then I heard the cubboards open. YUP, Madi worked her way out of the chair, climbed to the counter, and started going through the cubboard. Oh, great! Look at what she learned to do today.

I was in the livingroom folding laundry, looked up and Madilyn was in her highchair. I pulled her out of the chair (which is why she is so fussy in the video) and hid in the bathroom with the camera. It is sideway....oops.

We decided to take her to the park and let her climb. Wish us luck.