Playing in the Yard

You can see in the video that Sadie had a little surgery today. She had a tumor on her right front leg (I guess you could call it the shoulder area). The vet said they were able to get it all, but we have to keep a watch on the area since the type of tumor she had can return.

I had her shaved down at the groomers a few days ago since she was shedding like crazy. She has a Siamese-cat-like look to her now!

Playing Sadie-Tag...

Sadie is slowly warming up to Evan's presence in the house (it's only been over a year)! Evan starts giggling when Sadie runs away from him.

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Part II

Boxed In!

Since Evan is the big explorer around the house, he sometimes finds himself boxed in by the dogs. In this video, Evan was exploring the laundry room. Max, being the "herder" that he is, kept him corralled and made sure to give him lots of licks.

Evan is 13 months old today!

8/2/07: Been Bad About Blogging...

Things have been crazy-busy so apologies to all of you who are missing your Evan-fix. I need to take some video of Evan's latest "tricks"...still no crawling yet, but he likes to pull himself up to a standing position. So, who knows, maybe he will skip the whole crawling-thing? With his increased mobility, we also have an increase in boo-boos with him falling over and bumping his head or his eye...the boy needs a helmet!

The monsoons have been steady this summer and we've had some real big downpours daily. We forgot that when the monsoons arrive, so does the seasonal "Sadie-pee" on the living room carpet. For some reason, when it rains, she will not go outside and relieve herself...instead she chooses to do so in relatively the same spot on the carpet. T was not happy to discover (aka step in ) it on Monday. Since then, Sadie has been banished to the backyard all day. The thing that stinks about it is that Max is stuck inside the house since we have to close up the dog door. He's pretty good about holding it all day until we get home.

Evan is still doing well at daycare. He is pretty much still the smallest kid there (even smaller than the infants on the other side of the room). So he is truly turning into a little-man. His food palette has expanded to peas and green beans, so he'll eat almost anything. I gave him a Cheerio this morning (I snagged it off of one of the other kids). He wasn't sure what to do with it, but he let it sit in his mouth and dissolve (thank goodness no choking hazard there). Today they were doing some sort of artwork with Jello (to get them used to different textures). Tomorrow is finger painting (with edible paint of course).

A Rare Photo-Op

I snapped a very rare photo today...Max and Sadie both on the couch together. This couch is usually Sadie's domain since Max isn't too keen in getting up and down on the couch anymore. This was his favorite couch when he was a bit more spry.

2/19/07: Day 220 (Mon.) Helping With the House Cleaning

Here is a video of how Sadie helps clean up around the house:


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Chronological age: 31 weeks and 3 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 5 months, 0 weeks and 3 days
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11/5/06: Day 114 (Sun.) Me and My Buddy

Evan and Sadie were watching football games from their perch.

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Chronological age: 4 months 0 weeks and 2 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 1 month 3 weeks and 1 day
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10/28/06: Day 106 (Sat.) Baby Einstein

This picture is actually from last night. Luckily I was able to snap it before Sadie had moved. We had Evan sitting in his Bumbo chair watching a Baby Einstein video (I'm lovin' these)! It was the Baby Beethoven one. Anyway...Sadie comes in and plops herself right down beside him to watch the video also. It helped that T was sitting there, since Sadie is always wanting to be near him. It was a funny sight! Evan was pretty attentive to parts of the video.

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Chronological age: 3 months 3 weeks and 1 day
Adjusted/developmental age: 1 month 2 weeks and 0 days
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