Can you spot the real kitty?? This was the girls having fun with their "cats" and also with the camera. I had no idea they'd taken these pictures until weeks later. Pretty cute!

Sofie Milestone

We hit a milestone with our puppy, Sofie today! This was the first day she's been able to stay all day in her crate without any potty accidents. For those of you with puppy experience, you understand what an awesome thing this is. I was ecstatic when I got home to find her still clean and dry. No messes to clean up! Woo hoo!!

She is currently 5 1/2 months old. From what friends have said, this is about the time we expected her to start being able to do this. She is much more solid with the housetraining as well, with only an occasional accident, usually as a result of us humans not paying attention to her subtle body language and signals.

We are trying to train her to bump a bell with her nose that we have hanging from the door knob, but so far she doesn't seem to be making that connection very well. With time, perhaps she will pick it up.

NaBloPoMo

In honor of National Blog Posting Month, I am commiting to getting back into the habit of posting to this blog on a regular basis. Thank you, LP, for posting this on your blog so that I'd hear about it. =0)

Halloween 2009

Halloween was a lot of fun. The weather couldn't have been better, we met some great new people, the girls looked awesome in their costumes, and there was no sibling fighting (thanks to Ally spending most of the evening with her friends).

Ally went Trick-or-Treating with her friend Samantha from across the street, and her new "very good friend" Nathan from school. N's parents took on the threesome and drove them to two neighboring subdivisions, choosing to follow in the car rather than try to keep up with the running group of candy monsters.The three of them came back with at least 8-10 lbs of candy each!!

Ally was dressed as the vampire Jane of the Volturi, from the Twilight Series. Obviously, Angie dressed as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz.

Angie stayed behind to eat some pizza, but was soon invited out to join a group of about 10 little munchkins that visited our house and just about cleaned out our candy bowl. We turned out the lights and joined the mob, puppy dog leading the way. No, that is not lipstick on her lips... we think she found some red frosting on the ground somewhere... hmmm....

This is Angie's buddy, Cooper. He lives in our neighborhood, and is also in Angie's class at school. He invited her to join his little clan after she'd given out candy to all of them.

Ma and Pa Strickland stopped by for a few minutes to see the girls and to share some goodies.