Lake meets Toby

We are now down to one puppy since Meredith's puppy Sammy "ran away." Here's the short story. Hannah begged and begged for a small puppy she could hold. Josh was completely set against it. Then the big softie decided to get her a puppy and why not get one for Merdi also. So, Santa delivered two puppies to our door on Christmas Eve. We are no match for two puppies. I felt bad because they are supposed to be indoor dogs, but whenever they were together, they did nothing but play fight and chase each other around the house. It was difficult to housebreak them because they were constantly running abound and being overly hyper. I noticed that neither girl was playing with their dog, so we decided to look for a new home for Sammy. I had a friend whose mom really wanted a small lap dog and was more than happy to take Sammy. Meredith took it really well. She looked for Sammy for about 30 minutes and then all was well. Now Toby is an indoor/outdoor dog and both girls are playing with him. They call him the family dog. He has been so good and you can tell he is so much happier having human attention.

Back to Work

I started back to work last week, so it has been hard to find time to post. The transition wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be though. Lake has a great babysitter, so that makes it so much easier. We have finally found a routine that seems to be working. Lake turned two months old on Sunday. I can't believe how fast the time has gone. He is starting to hold his head up for longer periods of time and always has a smile for his mom. He is still waking up during the night, but so did the girls at this age. At least it isn't every two hours anymore. The girls are still in love with him. I can't believe how much easier it has been having Hannah to help. She is the best big sister to him. When I pick him up from the babysitter he always has a big smile for her. So many people told us how hard three kids would be, but actually it hasn't been much different. The only real noticeable difference is the lack of time to be able to do personal things like blog, scrapbook, etc. Meredith is now 31/2. She is the cutest thing, but is quite the handful. Our kids never hit the terrible twos, but holy threes. Something about talking back just drives me crazy. She is also Miss Independent and wants to do things that are not possible for her to do by herself. She is really enjoying preschool. Her teacher informed Josh that she is the only child who nurses her babydolls at school. Just pulls up her shirt and pretends. I call it being resourceful. You never have to look for a bottle that way. Hannah is doing great in 2nd grade. She has a wonderful teacher and I think that makes all of the difference. She is at that age where she doesn't like any of her clothes that I pick out, yet will pick out an outfit that doesn't match at all. She doesn't like for any attention to be drawn to her in any way. Here are some pictures from the last two weeks. We'll have lots of Halloween pictures soon.

Check out this great smile!
Meredith loves her little brother!
Kitten for a day. Kind of like rent a kitten. It just

showed up in our garage, so we let Meredith play with it for a couple of hours.

Go Bulldogs!

Truman's Homecoming was this past weekend. We went to the parade on Saturday. The weather was really nice. I remember homecomings past when we had on hats, gloves and coats. Nothing really new to say about the parade. Same parade pretty much every year, just a different theme. The girls really liked the bands when they came by. Something new this year was that no one could throw candy from the floats. Instead, people come by and put it in the kids bags. Kind of takes the fun out of scrambling for candy, but I understand the reasoning behind it.

Lake Turns Six Weeks