Ayla lost her second tooth today (that we’ve noticed anyway). She was all wound up around 7 pm and was playing in the yard with her yellow kong (which I finally freed from its frozen ice prison) and decided it would be great fun to run full force into the bushes which she then used […]

The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. -Anonymous Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. -Ann Landers If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. -Will Rogers There is […]

Let me start by saying that this whole fun experience for her is partially my fault to begin with. When she was smaller, she would jump at the bushes when I was playing with her but she was so small she would basically just bounce right off again…nevermind the thoughts of her actually getting in […]

As of today Ayla weighs 48.5 pounds (22 kilos). That means she has put on about 4.5 pounds (2 kilos) since last week. I’m not sure the phrase “growing like a weed” really even fits here since it’s more like growing by leaps and bounds. Obviously we are quite happy to hear this which means […]

We decided to use this weekend to practice what will happen when we have to set up and take down our whole collection of camping stuff so we packed everything up & found our way to Holland for the weekend. We had selected a camping site online a few days before which looked decent enough […]