Ode to Bridget

Bridget was the best dog in the whole world. She was so kind and gentle, especially with all the little kids. She reminded me of the dog from peter pan, Nana. I could leave Addie in the backyard with bridge and she would just stay by her side. One of Addie's first words was Bridget and every time she saw any animal be it bird, fish or cat or dog she would call them Bridget. We loved her so much and she has been around forever. I still remember the first day we brought her home from Tony and Therese's old house.
I loved coming through that gate in backyard and being greeted by that wagging tail and big brown eyes and spotted tongue and all those kisses.I will miss that sweet little girl. I am so glad my mom was by her side till the very end, loving her. It breaks my heart that I will never see her again. She was family! I am glad she is not in pain anymore, it was so hard to see her get old and sick. I will miss that sweet little girl!

xoxo Bridgey, We love you!

the bag lady!

Addie loves to dress up. I found her looking like a bag lady the other day! I love this picture though.

Jacob Black...

Maybe I will be team jacob after all....
dude have you seen him? He says he has put on 26 pounds of muscle and counting!

Coraline

I am so excited for Coraline to come out! I loved James and the giant peach and loved Nightmare before Christmas in a cultish obessive kind of way, i hope to feel the same way about Coraline.

Potty training

So we have begun...

Potty training. I have decided to really take it slow, very slow! I was able to catch her in the middle of a 'push' and stripped her down and stuck her on the toilet and she had her first experience on the toilet. After that she would cry when i would open the door to the bathroom (hey, at least she quit throwing things in the toilet!). I picked up one of those toilet seat inserts to make it the right size for a kid. It has the backyardigans characters on it and she loves to point at them. After breakfast in the morning she sits on the toilet fully clothed and then gets marshmallows. She now gets super excited about it! Maybe in a month we will move onto the next step!

Pictures!

So here is a recap of the last few months in pictures..

this is how Durham does christmas err... Kwanzaa


we found this building on one of our downtown adventures!

the gingerbread house that we made (gingerbread and all!)


















This is Brightleaf square in downtown Durham


















The wind really started to blow while we were there, but Addie thought it was pretty funny!

Its a snow day!

We are having a snow day! I didn't think we would see any snow out here in North Carolina but it has been snowing all morning. Unfortunately there aren't many snow plows and most people are too afraid to leave the house, but we are going to take advantage of that and the few stores that remained open. We are also just about to go sledding and going down the slide at the park into the snowy ground, should be fun. Pictures to come!