First week with Lily

We have very quickly fallen in love with Lily. She is such a good girl, it is maddening that she was on the "kill list"! She is obviously still getting used to us but she is doing amazingly well. We are still watching her and Stella closely to make sure they are fine together but so far so good. The only tthing we really have to watch is that Stella doesn't play too rough. She isn't being mean, she just needs to realize that Lily is smaller. As you can see from the pics Lily and Vi and too cute together! Lily will let Vi hold her and she sleeps with her. This is something that Stella wants nothing to do with. Lily is going to the vet today for a check up.

We are very happy to have found her!!

Skating Party

Last Saturday Vi went to her first birthday party. Her friend Isabelle turned 6. The party was at the roller rink. Vi had never been on skates before. Her feet are so small, I didn't even know they made skates that small but they do. The first couple of times around she was holding our hands or holding onto the wall. After that though...no need for mom and dad. She was skating all by herself! When she fell she just picked herself up and kept going. And you know Vi...even on skates she was dancing to the music :)

Welcome Lily!

Eddie and I have been talking about getting another dog for awhile. Wrigley was not a good fit for our family but we have always liked the idea of two dogs. Well, today we found a dog! She is a little girl Vi has named Lily. She is a daschound/beagle mix and is a whooping 15 lbs. She is very calm but loving. We had a couple of barks from Stella when it came to dinner time but we quickly worked through that. The dogs are good together because they do not bother each other. Vi loves Lily...and Lily is really good with Vi...so far so good...the shelter we got her from is great and really wants to place the rigth dog with the rigth family so they will be in close contact. We are very excited to have Lily as part of our family!

Spring Break

This week was spring break. We had a very eventful week that is for sure! Sabrina and Madeline came down from Seattle to hang out with us. They got in on Tuesday afternoon and the fun didn't stop...we went swimming, to the indoor bounce land, painted pottery, visited urgent care...yep, did you honestly thing everything would have been perfect?!
On Weds night after the girls went to bed Sabrina and I went to the gym and to get dog food. How nice, some time without the girls...well when we got home about 10:30 there was Eddie holding Maddie on the couch. She wasn't crying but she was a little warm and didn't want to go to sleep. The next day we woke up and went to paint pottery. That is when she started pulling on her ears and just laying on me and Sabrina. So off to urgent care we went.
Now keep in mind they were leaving the next day at 6 in the morning. So we got into the doctor and the nurse took her temp, sure enough she had a fever. Then the doctor comes in and checks out her ears. He looked in her left and said yep, ear infection. He then looked in her right and made a face. I have never seen a doctor make a face but her right ear was so bad he actually made a face. He then said she needed a shot to kick start the treatment. Sabrina told him they were flying home the next day and he adviced strongly against it.
So two days later they are getting ready to leave. I will say Maddie is quite a trooper. A super bad double ear infection and overall she was on the up and up.
Despite our trip to urgent care we had a blast!! We are happy that Sabrina and Maddie came down to hang out with us...




On Friday night we went to the Train Park. They rode the train and carousel, went down the slide and tire swing.

This is from the indoor bounce house. It is two rooms of giant bounce things...

This is urgent care...Sabrina is reading up on some advice from the OctoMom and Vi is striking a pose as usual.

Cat Sitting

So Vi and I are cat sitting for Len while he is on his cruise. Today when we went over there so check on him it didn't go so well and Kennedy bit me and I was bleeding. On the way home Vi says...well at least one of us had a good day...

She cracks me up...