Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Meet Wilbur

Wilbur is our new dog. He's super great. :) I don't know what all you'd want to know. He's 8 months old, we got him at the Humane Society Animal Shelter. We didn't go to get him, there were a few others we liked. But when we went those dogs were not recomended for children,a nd Wilbur was. So we met him and loved him. He is so mellow. It's weird to me that a virtual puppy is so chill. I mean he likes to chase a ball and play and did my long walk this morning, but he doesn't jump up on people or any of that nonsense. We did not want a puppy so we would have a dog that was already house broken, already chill... well, Wilbur is.
He's a "shepard mix" and pretty cute. it's funny I always said I wanted a "red dog with stick up ears and a curl around tail" Well he's red, his tail curves up, but doesn't quite curl, and his ears are sort of up then down. He can stick them up though when he wants.
He's so great with the kids. Gentle and stuff. He does have sharp nails though so he has accidentally scratched them. They are taking that in stride though. They are over the moon to have a dog.
He wasted no time making himself at home here. You cannot tell we have not had him for months. I walked him this morning and he didn't pull the leash or anything. He would sit for me when kids came by (lots of kids walking to elementary school here). He knows "Sit" and does it for me about 8 times out of 10. I'm teaching him "Hold" for stop when we are walking, he did do a "shake paws" once for me. We shall see. We are going to do obediance training with him though to help out.
He is a chewer though. I got him some good toys for that, so I hope he likes them. he's not chewing furniture, but the kids toys. They keep GIVING him the toys so that's not helping. But it's not a huge issue.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Arm Healing Great

I just got back from my checkup. My arm is coming along great. They ARE counting it from the break. I only have 3 more weeks in the cast! WOOHOO. April 7th I'm free. I can't wait to clean my arm.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Sea World

We went to Sea World yesterday.
They have a HUGE playground thing. Ethan got all super brave and climbed this rope thing WAY up high. It was seriously over 20 feet in the air, he was not even with Stephen, he just kept climbing and climbing. And here are the guys at the Whale and Dolphin show. I loved that show so I put away the camera and just watched it.




After Sea World we went to Ikea and got this HUGE trainset for Stephen's Birthday. It's from his Grammy. He loves it. I love that the rule is you have to clean up your room and toys before you can do trains, and they love trains so much they do clean up just to play. Woohoo.



Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Vacation

Last week we went on vacation. I broke my wrist on the last day though so I'm going to mostly just put pics. I am fine, it just hurts to type.

lots of driving
Got lost on a road called 32. (THANKS GOOGLE MAPS)
32 wasn't all paved and has nowhere to turn around...
Then to the Aquaruim of the Smokies

Sawfish is Ethan's new favorite. He calls them "my best guy"

Octopus

Spider crabs are HUGE

We hiked a lot, it was the best part.






Right in here is where I broke my wrist. I thought it was maybe a sprain though so no stopping for me.

We also visited our AWESOME friends Rhett and Jessica Tucker. Forgot to take pics. We will visit them again soon. They are the best. We had not seen them in years and it was like we had seen them just the day before.
And here is my cast. The kids "signed" it. I got black so it would not show dirt. dirty casts skeeze me out. I didn't realize any white would show though. Bummer. Can I paint it black?