Stella came home on Saturday! She's been so fun to have around. Here are some things about Stella....
She
loves to find all the tags on her toys.
Emily has really shown responsibility when it comes to Stella. She watches her outside, pampers her, holds her toys, makes sure she stays away from the road and if Stella does walk towards it, Emily yells "No road!" .....or "No tulips!" "No dig!" "Kisses only!"....you get the picture ;) Those tulips were just so tempting I had to cut them off. They've long since bloomed anyways. It's nice to know that if Emily has a friend, a neighbor kid, or whoever over and someone comes up with a hairbrained idea like
"let's put her down the slide and see how fast she goes!" or
"let's see if she can jump into the window well!" or
"have you buried her in the sand yet?" Emily will be the first one to say that's not a good idea.
(getting acclimated to where all the squeakers are!)
The kids adore her. When she's being "playful", she does show what sharp teeth and nails she has. And she'll pull at your clothes, especially poor Lukes. If he's sitting down, she'll come and pounce on him. I'm not sure if it was her teeth or nails, but one of them scratched the inside of his ear pretty bad last night. He's just the closest to her size! We're just continuing to work on replacing our clothes, shoes and fingers, with her toys or bones.
She enjoys her bacon flavored puppy Nylabone....so much that she already needs a new one! And she loves to lay on you while she chews it. Luckily, Emily doesn't mind.
Her pink collar looks adorable on her. She had no problems getting used to it.
She loves being outside! She has even whined at the door to go out (assuming she has to potty) and just sprawls out in the grass, no intentions to potty!
We introduced the leash the first day and the tie out the second day. She doesn't detest either one too bad! Although, she'll chew on her leash if allowed.
And her #1 accomplishment.....she has been accident free, on our floors
and her crate! We just take her out as soon as she wakes and she goes. I'm trying to crate train her at night. I'll take her out around 10:30-11pm and then put her in her crate with a blanket over it. She cries for awhile, but eventually settles. Or maybe I just fall asleep? At least the kids don't hear her. So far, both nights she stayed quiet about 3-4 hours, started whining around 2am, took her out, came back in and played for 15-20 minutes in attempt to tire her out, put her back in the crate, did a little more whining, up for the day around 5-6am. Eventually, if she continues to be a good girl at potty training, she'll have more freedom at night. This morning was the first time I left her in her crate and actually left the house, she was crying when we left, but quiet when home. She fell asleep on the couch right before I had to take Luke to preschool. She looked so content, I decided to let her be. Ran him to school and returned books at the library and she didn't even flinch when I came back. In fact, she's still snoozing an hour later. But, it is Monday, and back to the real world where we will be gone periodically. She's been spoiled with us home all the time. Hopefully, she'll keep up the good work!
She loves to find all the tags on her toys.
Emily has really shown responsibility when it comes to Stella. She watches her outside, pampers her, holds her toys, makes sure she stays away from the road and if Stella does walk towards it, Emily yells "No road!" .....or "No tulips!" "No dig!" "Kisses only!"....you get the picture ;) Those tulips were just so tempting I had to cut them off. They've long since bloomed anyways. It's nice to know that if Emily has a friend, a neighbor kid, or whoever over and someone comes up with a hairbrained idea like "let's put her down the slide and see how fast she goes!" or "let's see if she can jump into the window well!" or "have you buried her in the sand yet?" Emily will be the first one to say that's not a good idea. 
(getting acclimated to where all the squeakers are!)
The kids adore her. When she's being "playful", she does show what sharp teeth and nails she has. And she'll pull at your clothes, especially poor Lukes. If he's sitting down, she'll come and pounce on him. I'm not sure if it was her teeth or nails, but one of them scratched the inside of his ear pretty bad last night. He's just the closest to her size! We're just continuing to work on replacing our clothes, shoes and fingers, with her toys or bones.
She enjoys her bacon flavored puppy Nylabone....so much that she already needs a new one! And she loves to lay on you while she chews it. Luckily, Emily doesn't mind.
Her pink collar looks adorable on her. She had no problems getting used to it.
She loves being outside! She has even whined at the door to go out (assuming she has to potty) and just sprawls out in the grass, no intentions to potty! 
We introduced the leash the first day and the tie out the second day. She doesn't detest either one too bad! Although, she'll chew on her leash if allowed.
And her #1 accomplishment.....she has been accident free, on our floors and her crate! We just take her out as soon as she wakes and she goes. I'm trying to crate train her at night. I'll take her out around 10:30-11pm and then put her in her crate with a blanket over it. She cries for awhile, but eventually settles. Or maybe I just fall asleep? At least the kids don't hear her. So far, both nights she stayed quiet about 3-4 hours, started whining around 2am, took her out, came back in and played for 15-20 minutes in attempt to tire her out, put her back in the crate, did a little more whining, up for the day around 5-6am. Eventually, if she continues to be a good girl at potty training, she'll have more freedom at night. This morning was the first time I left her in her crate and actually left the house, she was crying when we left, but quiet when home. She fell asleep on the couch right before I had to take Luke to preschool. She looked so content, I decided to let her be. Ran him to school and returned books at the library and she didn't even flinch when I came back. In fact, she's still snoozing an hour later. But, it is Monday, and back to the real world where we will be gone periodically. She's been spoiled with us home all the time. Hopefully, she'll keep up the good work!
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Your kids are really adorable, Natalie. Luke looks just like David.
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