Adoption Photo Blog

Our little guy is growing up too…

Simon was born in February so he is celebrating his half-birthday this month. Look how big he’s getting compared to Katy.
Simon has made tremendous progress on his potty training. He is crate trained and sleeps in there at night with no accidents, and also spends time in […]

We have some travel plans this summer and one thing that is tripping us up is finding pet sitters for one or both of these dogs.
Katy, the yellow lab, is practically perfect in every way. She is an inside dog, patient with small children crawling all over her, will fetch anything, and will sleep […]

Don’t they all just look like they are up to something?I love how Simon Peter is totally cheesing for the camera. He is getting by on his good looks around here, because we are at a loss in regards to housebreaking him. The poor guy has had the hot sauce treatment, had his […]

Two dogs that aren’t used to playing with five little boysKaty and Simon Peter

At church this morning, our friend Jana (oh wait, there’s no link to her name because she DOESN’T blog) was talking about how her husband has been out of town and she and her boys were looking forward to our small group lunch that afternoon so that the boys could play and she could have […]

The Hair-do held up through naptime and a playdate with our buddy Matthew (no pictures, sorry!).
Recently, Brad and I have been working on our screened-in-porch. We water-sealed/stained it this lovely dark brownish/reddish color and are in the process of replacing all of the screens and exterior trim. Our goal is to finish it […]

I love Priddy Books. Aunt Shai first turned me on to them because she had a couple of soft books for Hank. Then we got a few more and they are still my favorites. I think it is all of the beautiful bright photos in them.
Norah likes them too.
I think these next […]

Simon Peter has a favorite hideaway. It’s under the ottoman in our living room.
Poor guy got two drops of hot sauce today.

Katy kind of looks like Gracie, Simon’s mother. They are quickly forming a bond - sometimes they love each other, sometimes they annoy each other - to be expected since they spend so much time together.

Our friend Leslie suggested a drop of hot sauce on the tongue as a method of housebreaking the puppy. […]

My baby girl has been doing some serious teething for about a month now. Her top two front teeth are about a third of the way in, and the teeth on each side of her bottom teeth are starting to push through. This has done some damage to our great sleeper, but here’s […]