I managed to get the house looking relatively decent before my parents arrived. Daughter had an absolute blast at camp and wants to go next year. I celebrated my 8th anniversary on the 14th, though we didn't CELEBRATE until the 18th, when we did dinner, a movie, and a hotel for the night while the Grandparents babysat (though we had a horrid thunderstorm that knocked out the power after about 30 minutes in the hotel, so it was a very DARK night)....it also knocked our satellite dish off center so we now need a tech to come fix it so we can watch TV.
Son turned 3 and celebrated with two of his little friends...nothing too complicated....out in the backyard, they were allowed to run free (under supervision, of course), blowing bubbles, playing in the sand, and so on. Then it was cake and ice cream....then playing.....then presents....then playing....then goodie bags, and everybody went home. Then we, as a family, went to Chuck E Cheese's, and then to Burger Baron for some REAL food, and rented "Barnyard" for an evening movie.
Showed my parents all over the city and some places outside the city, so they now have a good idea of where they might like to look when they are buying a house next year. As long as they can sell their house in Victoria, they could probably have any house they wanted and have change to spare, which is always nice when preparing for retirement. They had a blast with the kids and look forward to being around them more permanently, especially since this visit, Christopher was twice as old as when they last saw him.
They went home early Wednesday morning. We did a ton of errands that morning, and then headed over to check something out, after checking this particular place out several times, once with my parents, to no avail.
And now, let me introduce to you my new baby. Her name is Mabel. She weighs about 57 pounds (and needs to weigh around 70). She has black hair and big brown eyes. Here is a recent picture:
She is around a year old, and based on her weight and certain behaviours, had not had a fun time of things before the Humane Society got her. She is a total sweetheart and a real suck. She loves everyone and everything and can't understand why the cats do not share her love. She doesn't bark, wants to please EVERYONE....but has absolutely no training whatsoever, not behaviour training, not housebreaking, nothing....so we have a lot of work to do to keep her off the counters, keep her from jumping up to kiss everyone, obviously to train her NOT to go on the carpets....but she is so eager to please that once the adjustment period is over and she settles down a bit (and is more sure of herself....she has a VERY high guilt level), I'm thinking she will be relatively easy to train.
The Humane Society had listed her as a Rottweiler/Pyrenese cross, but when we took her to the vet, they told us no, she was certainly not....she was more likely a german shepherd/ labrador cross, which is even better. And I tend to believe the vet over the HS, because through past experience, I know the HS often makes mistakes like that, and worse.....that and the previous owner only had her for a few days so really didn't know much about her.
So that is my new, sucky baby who wants attention every second, and is going to need it whenever in the house, even if she IS confined to the downstairs right now while we do crate training and housebreaking.
Well, off to finish my busy day of hanging out with Mabel and (yay) running my newly fixed dishwasher. Maybe I'll even get to read a little bit while puppy is resting (if she will ever settle down enough to rest).
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