Farewell, Dear Buddy

It is with great regret and remorse that I notify all of you about the passing of Ayla’s newest friend, Buddy. He had a short life with us, arriving to our home on August 10th, 2007.In this photo taken August 11th, Buddy was still showing his signs of...

I guess I’m not allowed to work hard

About two weeks ago, Ayla managed to break the baby gate which restricts her from the kitchen and office. The office thankfully has a door of its own but there are no other doors blocking the rest of the rooms from Ayla. We once had a door where the baby gate is but...

Could it really be doggo’s fault?

To go along with our blog here about life with our crazy Newfie, we also keep a blog about our house. A little over a month ago, I wrote a few posts about our front gate breaking (read here and here for details as well as our repair not working here). There seemed to...

Another excercise ball is extinguished

When we moved into this house, there was one of those huge exercises balls in the attic. We gave it to Ayla who absolutely loved it – especially when she was a puppy because she could sort of balance herself on the ball while she was laid across it and she could...

An unfortunate casualty

On her birthday (February 23rd), Ayla got a kangaroo stuffie. We actually started buying toys for her from IKEA because they are baby safe and therefore don’t have parts that can fall off (plastic eyes, nose, etc) and they are usually a lot cheaper than dog...