All Hallow's Eve

Because I am such a big kid I still love dressing up even if it's only to hand out candy. I must have done a good job because a little boy said to me "Are you a real vampire?" It was so cute. I wanted to dress up the dogs but Joe drew the line - Cosmo hates it anyway but Kiri would probably be game. Rachel and Avery came over - Avery was Hannah Montanna and Rachel was her manager - never watch the show but the actor is Billy Ray Cyrus. Here are some pics!

She's growing up

And apparently teething :)

Kiri is no longer in the basement for the day when we head to work. She actually gets to stay in the house all day. Cosmo seems to be okay with it too. They sleep most of the day away anyway. However....puppy proofing the house has become vital. The second day Kiri was out this is what we came home to.

And yes she got into the puppy treats - it's a bag of "Beggin Strips" (in the shape of bacon). So now we have puppy proofed the house. Although you can't see it she chewed a CD - a freakin' CD and yes, she has chew sticks and chew toys!

She also seems to love rolling in crap and digging big holes :)

Thanksgiving weekend

Thanksgiving weekend was good. We went up to Joe's parents and decided to give Kiri a bath so she would be nice and white and clean - we went to park later and she decided the dig this great big hold in the ground and got very very dirty in the process - here is a pic of our dirty girl.

So it was back into the bath she went:

We did eventually get to his parent - this year there were 13 people and 4 dogs Cosmo, Kiri and Joe's parents dogs Molly and Maggie - Molly is the brown poodle and very jealous - she is used to be the centre of attention and wasn't this weekend - the nerve of the new dogs!! Kiri and her aren't really ever going to be friends but her and Cosmo seemed be fast friends.

We all dined on turkey and stuffing while Kiri seemed to enjoy my smelly old sneakers.

mmm... sneakers!

By the end of the day we endedup with full bellys and two tired little ones.

all cuddled up with mom

It's official - we're parents

At least to the dogs anyway. We get up in the middle of the night. I clean up poo and don't get even slightly angry at the guilty part and I consider 8:40 sleeping. Lastly, I fell in love at first site. My little girl is sleeping beside me and my big boy is on the other side. It's amazing that I can be exhaused at work and I come home and then I see the dogs and I am re-energized. Maybe they have some sort of caffine in them. I love coming home because they are so happy to see me and vice versa. I am one very happy woman!!!

Anyone want a puppy??

So Joe usually comes home and noon to let Kiri out and give her some more food (she gets fed 3 times a day). Today he couldn't do it and asked if I would. I, of course, said yes. So I get home and the first thing you have to do is pick Kiri up - she's in basement all day - and put her on the grass so she knows to pee there. So I get home, open the basement door and pick her up and put her outside. She pees I then notice her paws are covered with poo - not just the front two but all four.

I go inside and the bottom 1/2 of the door where she jumped up and down is covered with poo, the side wall is covered with poo, there is poo ground into the stairs in the carpet and the entire floor in the basement is pretty much covered with, you got it, poo. So I spent 40 minutes cleaning up poo and walking the dogs making me 20 minutes late for work.

And since I did a fast job it happened again when we got home at 5 to a much much lesser degree. Now it's done (took about 1.5 hours) and I steam cleaned the floor because she pees down there.

I picked up some puppy training pads so we'll see how those work out.

Oh the joys of having new puppy but let's face it she's totally worth it and so much more. I love my little girl and my big boy so very much!

And they call it HUMANE??

So we decided to get another dog to keep Cosmo company during the day and spent literally like a week and a half at the Humane Society going every day and introducing Cosmo to other dogs because it is the Humane society's policy that dogs do what's called "Meet and Greet". There were some meets that went fine and some downright not good meetings. Rich the shiuzu was a good match but were down on the list (it's first come first serve) and then we met Kyra (now named Kiri) and six month old terrier cross - first meet and greet went okay. The second meet and greet was in the atrium and we realize Cosmo HATES the atrium. It's loud, distracting and there is no neutral territory. So he literally sat in my lap and shook - keep in mind Cosmo has never been socialized with other dogs except for a few months when he was pup. He didn't know how to act around other dogs.

Crystal and the HS was awesome, she was the one that suggested Kiri in the first place. Jenny was the one who put them in the atrium. The next day Kiri and Cosmo spent TWO hours together and did fine, they were interacting and there was no fear - oh did I mention it was outside and Jenny was observing. We put in the application and they tell us to come on Monday and pick her up. We ask "do we need to bring Cosmo" they say no.

So Monday rolls round, I work through lunch so I can leave early and get there. Long story short I get told that a complaint was put and it was suggested because of the "fear" Cosmo displayed we shouldn't get the dog and I asked if it was Jenny who made the complaint. And sure enough it was. I was then told we wouldn't get Kiri unless a manger saw a meet and greet - so I have to race home, get Cosmo and race back. Long story short they were fine and we got Kiri.

I should point out that I have never met anyone so negative as this woman. It was like she wanted Kiri for herself. She told a volunteer that we had said that the volunteer "shoved us" out of the corral - that was lie and she actually said "Look I told you I would try and find a match for your dog and you obviously want this dog even though I don't recommend it." I feel like I should make a complaint. She's supposed to help dogs find homes.

But we got Kiri and below are some picutres of our six month old little terrier cross.
And by the way - she and Cosmo played for 40 minutes off leash in park tonight!


Isn't she a cutie!!





I don't know what they are looking at but they have the same expression

FINALLY

I have realized that this has been too long in coming and a lot has happened. I have a new job which I started in May - I work at Gowling Lafleur Henderson for two great lawyers. David does general litigation and Adam does construction law. Rachel and I quit JRC at the same time and started at the same time. She works as wordpro specialist.

I am in yet another play with KWLT - Captain Hook's Revenge - I play Plague the swashbuckeling rat and my friend Kristy play Bubonic (get it rats...bubonic plague - ha ha). The first read though is the tomorrow night. It's the first time I've done a family play that I hope we get a lot families out.

We also have my new baby who has been living with us for 2 weeks now - Cosmo. He is a 7 year old miniature poodle and absolutely adorable. Tomorrow we are picking up our 6 month old new pup - Kiri . Right now Cosmo pretty much ignores her but we are hoping they become fast friends. We will be crate training her so that should be interesting. I will be posting pictures of her in the next day or two . Below are some pictures of my little man.