Tommy Danielle Savy visit/Updates

Flying truck
Conspiring together
Pretty girl

Danielle


Hahahahaha!
Playing "Pooh kicks" (aka kick ball)

My angel


Shouldn't this be the other way around?

Bath time fun
Playground 

Love the pigtails a swingin' 

                        This past weekend the James Family(Tommy ,Danielle, and Savannah) finally came for a visit. We had lots of fun! The girls had a blast. We went to the playground while Tommy and Mike played tennis and its was noted that Tommy won. I am sure Mike had a problem with that. We also went swimming in Heathers pool with her and Ethan. Savy swims like a little fish underwater and she is the youngest of the three kids! They all jumped and played and literally wore themselves out.  We cooked out for dinner Saturday and just hung around on Sunday. Everyone also went outside to play kick ball with the kids which Bella calls "Pooh kicks" because of the cartoon. The girls slept in Bella's bed both nights and fell asleep holding hands both nights. So cute! I would've gotten a picture but we didn't want to wake them with the flash.

     Mike and Tommy were working a lot of the weekend and Danielle and I watched the movie Shutter after we got the girls to sleep. This was a crazy movie! It was very interesting,sometimes gross and super suspenseful(my favorite kind of movie). I would definitely recommend viewing this one.

     There are some crazy things Bella has said in the past few days that I would love to share.

          Runny nose

Me: Bella is your nose running?

Bella: "No Mommy it's not running, it's just walking"

          Breakfast

     The other morning she came into my room to wake me up.

Bella: random gibberish

Me:  I'm sorry Bella what did you say?

Bella: random gibberish again

Me: Bella I cannot understand you, what did you say?

Bella: "I have a rumbly in my tumbly Mommy, I want something to eat"

           

      Gator Flag

     The same day Bella found Mike's Gator car flag and came running through the house waving it saying "Go Gator chomp,Go Gator chomp"

        Fancy Nancy

     Bella has a new love: Fancy Nancy. Fancy Nancy is a little girl character with her own books. Bella has two of her books and just loves them. This little girl loves to dress up and do fancy things and use fancy words. She also has an affection for anything French and it seems that a character in every book vomits or "gets sick" with a picture of the character bent over. Anyway, Bella calls her "Fancy Fancy" no matter how many times I correct her. One of the books is an early reader book which helps kids to learn how to read with say big words and a few sentences per page. We have read this Fancy Nancy at the Museum a few times and today Bella picked it up and read at least three pages of it, word for word out loud, without any prompting. Now I realize this could be memorization or picture association but nonetheless I am going to say my 2 year old is pre reading. Yes I know she will be three next month. Doesn't matter, she is still reading and is a genius to me. There I said it I am blatantly bragging about her with no shame and guess what...I don't care.

     Juno is growing like crazy. Last week we took him to the vet and I guess my first weight was off because they said he weighed 11.5 pounds. Today I weighed him at home and he weighed 15.2  I do not think I am overfeeding him but we knew he was going to be big we just didn't expect it to happen so fast. Does anyone know how long it is before they stop growing? He has gotten better with the house-training though. The last 3 days he has gone to the back door several times and even yipped a bit a few of those to let us know he had to go out. We are having considerably less messes at maybe 1 or 2  a day. Trust me that is a huge improvement. He is scheduled to go to the vet this Saturday for his vaccines etc so we will update then on his progress. He is chewing like mad and unfortunately biting too. We are working on it though! 

     In other news, we are still working on the house buying process and slowly figuring it out. It is really confusing and we don't want to get taken for a ride so we are being extra cautious.

                   Until Next time...

                         XOXOX

                             CC

Juno's first week

Bella trying to hold Juno down
John n Juno
Here he is trying to jump in Bella's bath

Hilarious!


He's so lucky he's so cute
Headlock

Fighting back

     Whew what a week it has been! Juno is like having a newborn that crawls and doesn't have diapers. It has been 13 years since I house trained a puppy and I just don't remember it being this exhausting. The first night he was up every hour and a half. Even newborns will most of the time give you at least two hours. So the first day or so I was having serious puppy postpartum depression. I kept thinking what have I gotten myself into? It didn't help that Mike was teaching the first two days so he was gone for over 15 hours each day. I did call and thank my parents for helping me house train Smokey because it was much easier with their help. Thanks Mom, Dad, Adrian, Joe, and Jon! 

      Juno is still having some accidents but is getting better at least at night. He has gained 5 lbs in 6 days( he now weighs 13 lbs) and is starting to scare me. I realized (you know after like 5 people told me) that we were feeding him too much.  He went for his first walk around the block on a leash the other day and he did pretty well. As long as I made him think I wasn't pulling him he was good. He doesn't seem to know his name yet or he is just ignoring me, not sure which. He also has a severe case of ADD. Say I call him to eat. He takes a few steps, sees a toy begins chewing,call him again, few steps, chewing again. Finally I just pick him up and take him to his food. What dog would rather play than eat? I guess our overfed one. I know he is a puppy but he seems to be really lazy. He sleeps all the time even when he is not in his kennel. He loves the cold kitchen floor and water. If he was only taller he would jump in the bathtub with Bella. Speaking of Bella, poor Juno, she is so rough with him. I guess that's ok though because before long he will be too big for her to push him around. He has started to do some funny things though. We have cut off his food and water after dinner so he won't have to go out as much at night. First he would bark for us to give him more, then he would try to drink out of the bathtub, now he carries his water bowl in his mouth to us in the living room. It's hilarious. Oh, now he just brought us the mat his food sits on. Well wish us luck with the housebreaking but otherwise we love this little glob of a dog. 

Welcome Mr. Juno Compton

Bella and Sarah Jane
Juno in Mommy's potty
Srah Jane sprawled out on the couch
Me and Emma(she looks like she's dancing Danny!)
Me and Emma again
Juno's first bath at home
Sarah Jane asleep
Juno asleep behind daddy

Eating
Bella meeting Juno

Boomer meeting Juno
Sarah Jane
Juno getting ready to take his first poop in the house

     Well folks,  he is finally here. Juno arrived (at least to us) this morning via his Uncle Tony and Rob. He was born on July 20,2008, hails from West Virginia and weighs 8 pounds. He was joined in his journey here by his sister(now cousin) Sarah Jane as Tony and Rob adopted her and cousin Scrappy.  We are very happy and very proud. Although, we have yet to have our first night together I am liable to change my mind by tomorrow morning.