New York City!!!

The building crew

Snow critters!

As it's supposed to be warm this week, we decided this could be our only chance to make snow critters (plus it was great packing snow and mild and sunny outside)

Kat's show

One more

Ice skating w/ a friend

We found Kat's former classmate William (they haven't seem each other since they graduated in August). She insisted that they could share the walker. She was right!

Ice skating!

If you watch closely, you will see Shawn, early on, bending down, Cheyenne, Jerry & Alison.

She did great and had a lot of fun. And a lot of help, mostly from Cheyenne.

Sledding

Little snowshoer!

 We met friends at the Science Museum's Birthday party for its dinosaurs.  And all of Buffalo's mascots were present (and the one just below this is a bit creepy...not that Kat ever cares).  He's the Bills mascot.  I had never seen him before.

 

 This is Sabretooth below.  The Sabres mascot.  He must be quite bored these days....

 

This is what the pups did while we were gone!

 This past Saturday we had breakfast with Santa, made a gingerbread house and then ended the day w/ an xmas party and cookie decorating (and wearing, as you can see).

This was the gingerbread house decorating.

Puppies, teeth and Maria's

She asked me to pull her tooth.  I love the moment when it's out and she clearly considers crying..

 This is what happens when you live here......you get yourself into non-threatening trouble and I'm reaching for the camera before I rescue you!!!!

 One of our Serbian visitors, Maria.

 

She did cry when we came home and discovered who had eaten her UNCARVED pumpkin!!!!  Little devil!

I am always amazed at Maria's strength and endurance....Kat loves to make her chase her.  And Maria does!!!

First tooth to go....

The one string holding it in was firmly attached! She eventually asked me to twist it out. And it took more strength to remove it than I expected. But it's out and the tooth fairy will be by tonite!!

Facing her attacker.

And there must be giggling....

Uncle Greg #1

Abusing uncle Greg #1

Uncle Greg #2

Kat abusing her other uncle Greg.

And this is what happens after a bath

Which was very traumatic for Roxy! Poor thing. She may have never had a bath before. I'm so glad we washed all of the puppy spit and mud off of them!!!

Puppy tails

I will be changing the name of my blog to Katnaps and puppy tails. There are a few posts prior to this because of the order I an doing this in. But, here is our new addition, Roxy. She is seven months old. Gromit is five months old, so she has a few months on him. And when we got home yesterday, this is what we saw. Non-stop!

In the water table....

Here is Gromit. I think he likes standing on something because he's not nearly as tall as she is. Yet. Although I don't think he ever will be. And who doesn't want to stand on the water table.

Dog tails

Well, we have acquired dog number two. Her name was Sadie, but now it is Roxy. She is a great pyrenees/ golden retriever mix. And she is adorable. And very sweet. Gromit loves her. Unless she considers getting up on the couch next to him. In which case he growls.

And here are the Bobsey twins eating my tomato plants that, granted, we were done with, but they decided to uproot and gnaw on all by themselves. And so it begins…

Coming home...