Its nearly been one week since Flash came home. He sleeps in a crate at night and so far its been pretty easy despite the 5:20 a.m. wake up call he gave us this morning. We're working on the house-training and are finding objects daily to puppy-proof. The rugs are off the floor, the laptop has been put away as the charger cord was too tempting and all shoes are returned to closets. The milestone of the week was that Flash learned to go upstairs, requiring that we keep all upstairs doors closed at all times. The only problem with the upstairs thing is that Flash has not learned to go downstairs. So, when we hear him climbing the stairs and follow behind, we are usually greeted with this mug and a bark ordering us to come and fetch him back down.
Flash at the top of the stairs.Lizzie is taking more of an interest in Flash and is becoming his mentor, Chloe is the one who is unsure of Flash now as she doesn't really like the puppy-chewing phase he is in. I guess she doesn't like her toes being gnawed on.
All the company is gone and we had a family weekend at home. We went raspberry and blueberry picking in NY and relaxed at the community pool. Of course, it completely wore Chloe out and when we returned from the pool this afternoon we couldn't wake her from the jog stroller. She ended up having a nice nap---
When I came downstairs this morning, I was greeted by Chloe's Benda*roo writing that she stuck on the wall. Its cute, but at 5:20 a.m. as you are waking up and coming downstairs it gave me a kind of "Red Rum" vibe. Good thing it just says, "Mom", "Dad" and "Chloe".
We walked into town today to attend our local farmer's market where we bought some produce. As we walked past downtown, we looked in the shop windows to see the fall displays going up. I can't believe that there are pumpkins in windows and my tomatoes are even ripe yet! Anyway, the farmer's market inspired me to photograph our little garden. Its grown a lot thanks to all the rain and it looks a lot different than it did in May.
The cherry tomatoes on the vine. 
The garden. My spinach is finished and the onions are ready. Just waiting on the tomatoes to ripen.
2 comments
I agree that puppies are a lot of work, especially when you also have children!! We finally took Leia and left her at a two week training camp. She has been back a week now and she is so much better!
Johanna
Flash looks great!!! And yes no one ever said puppies were easy! SOunds like he fit right in! Look forward to more picturs in the future! Suzanne Montgomery
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