December 27th, 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? How was your Christmas? Ours was pretty quiet. Mom says she’s mostly just happy that the Christmas chaos is over with at her not-retail job. 

Oliver got a doggy bone and a new stuffed hedgehog. Mom got some clothes, a new jacket, and some gift cards. It was nice and quiet!

I hope you all are having a great day!

December 20th, 2019

Hello everybody! I am sorry that we have not posted in two weeks. Mom's work got really hectic and stressful. The Christmas chaos is over with now though. Sometimes the computer does not work very well, and we haven't really figured out an easier way to blog on the ipad. 

It has been pretty quiet though. Mom and I take a nap after she gets home, and then we spend some time puttering around on the internet before we go to bed. Christmas is a few days away. I hope everyone has a great week!

 

December 13th, 2019

This is a place holder to make Mom happy.

December 6th, 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? I am okay. Mom's parents went on vacation, so Milton, Foster, and Adelaide have been spending time at home, and I have been going to work with Mom. It has been fun! I go inside with her and sit in her backpack. It is sort of loud, but it's interesting. This week she's made product with her name and her nephew's name on it. She's been there for over three years and it's the first time she's seen them.

Earlier this week there was a snow storm! Mom actually already had the day off, so it was okay. We took lots of naps! Oliver did not approve of the snow. He doesn't like getting wet. I don't mind the snow as long as Mom doesn't have to drive in it!

Talk to you next week!

November 29th, 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? I am okay, but Mom is tired. It is getting near to Christmas, so everybody is ordering things from the place she works. They have been very busy there. So busy that she actually has to work tomorrow on Saturday there instead of the bookstore!

If you celebrate Thanksgiving, how did it go? Ours was okay. Graham watched TV and Mom carried Pierce around in an attempt to make him happy! I mostly watched TV with Graham. Oliver was pretty stressed out about all the people around-- he is not very fond of changes in his routine!

I hope we can write more next week! 

November 22nd, 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? I’m okay. Mom has to work at the retail job tonight. She was going to have to work tomorrow too, but they gave her the day off! I hope you all have a great week, and I’ll make a longer entry tonight!

November 15th, 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? I am okay. Mom says she feels better now. This week has been pretty busy at her work, so we haven't been up to much. It snowed earlier this week, but today it was nearly 35! So it's very wet!

I hope you all have a great week!

November 8th, 2019

Hello everybody. Mom had a hard week at work. It made her brain do some funny things. We were going to write this after she got home from work today, but we went to the doctor instead. She has some new things to take, and we both hope that it’ll help. More next week!

November 1st, 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? I am okay. It has been pretty busy at Mom's work. After we write this, we might just take a nap! It has been getting colder around here. It snowed the past two days! It's still kind of pretty though. I like fall leaves.

Mom says that the leaves are actually always this color, but the chlorophyll that makes the leaves green covers it up. So when it's fall, the chlorophyll goes away, making the leaves the pretty (original) colors!

Talk to you next week! 

October 25th, 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? I am okay. Mom has had a long week though, so I am going to spend some time trying to cheer her up!

Last week, Mom, Shiloh, Adelaide, Mabel, Molly, Lark, Raven, and Wren went to one of Mom's friends' houses for a dolly meetup. They met some new friends!

Do any of you go to meetups? Mom likes going a lot! I've spent the time in the car, but I've never been inside!

Talk to you next week!

October 18th, 2019

Hello everybody. Mom had a poor day at work, and she's currently arguing with the computer and one of our email accounts. I will try to convince her to write more later!

Talk to you soon.

October 11th, 2019

Hello everyone! How are you? I am okay. We have had a quiet week here. Mom says that quiet is good. I would like a bit more car rides, but I guess she’s got a point. 

Mom and Caleb did get to go to a craft fair last weekend. It was very muddy. It was a pretty day though. 

She ended up buying some candy and a mum. It’s very big! Do you go to craft fairs and stores? 

Have a great week!

October 4th, 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? I am okay. Mom has had a long week--- it is getting close to the Christmas season where she works, and she is supposed to train the new people who will work in her department for the season. The first two people went well, but this third person isn't going as well. She is a very nice person, but just quite can't figure out the idea of a centered name! But Mom is trying to be a good sport about the whole thing.

Today we will share a picture of Oliver instead. He's pretty good looking, and in a much better mood then Mom is right now!

Talk to you next week! 

September 27th, 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? I am okay. We have had a very quiet week, so there's not much to report. Mom ordered this tiny windmill cookie press from a company in the Netherlands!

Now we can make tiny Dutch windmill cookies. Mom says that they're usually a bit more spicy then we like, but we're all for trying! Maybe we can make sugar cookies shaped like windmills instead!

Talk to you next week!

September 20th, 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? I am okay. We have had a quiet week. Mom spent Thursday at a park. Her not-retail job has a gathering once a year. It rained for most of the afternoon, but it was nice at the end.

It was near the lake. It was really pretty. There were a lot of oak trees. 

There were a lot of ducks. It's getting to be fall in Wisconsin, so they're flocking! 

This was Mom's favorite picture! I hope you guys have a great week! Talk to you soon! 

September 13th, 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? I am okay. It's Friday the 13th and there's a full moon. Mom says that she isn't superstitious, but it does seem to bring out the crazy people at the trail job. I'm glad she doesn't work tonight!

Our excitement for this week is that it rained so much on Wednesday that a creek flowed in our back yard. Down the road from our house is a swamp. All the water off everybody's yards comes downhill, and through our backyard (and other people's) to go to the swamp. Mom says that when they first moved here, the creek would flow when it just rained, but with all the development up the street and uphill, it just flows when it rains hard. I thought it was pretty cool!

September 6th, 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? I am okay. Last weekend, we went went to see Mom's sister and her kids. She sent us home with some newborn clothes. Some of them are still a bit too big for me, but I do fit a few of them! I have a new shirt!

I think I look pretty cool in it! What do you think? There doesn't seem to be too much newborn sized clothing out there, so I don't get a lot of new clothes. I still like the Build-a-Bear stuff, but it wears out pretty quickly! New clothes are awesome!

August 30th, 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? I am okay. We have had another quiet week. Mom says you can’t pick what kind of exciting, so boring is sometimes better. I think that maybe a little bit of excitement wouldn’t be so bad, but I guess Mom is the one who goes out in public more!

Mom took this picture of Lark for her Instagram. She’s having a bit of a pre-bed hot chocolate! I asked Mom to get me a teddy bear sized version!

August 23rd, 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? I am okay. I don't have too much to report this week. We have been mostly going to work and then spending the rest of the day reading. It's an okay way to spend your day! It's supposed to be starting to get busy for the Christmas season soon but it hasn't happened yet. (While I don't wish the company any ill, I don't mind that it hasn't happened yet--- it stresses Mom out!)

We have been playing a lot of ball with Oliver. Grandma doesn't like playing ball-- he can get quite obsessive. So after we come home from Mom's work, we play ball.

This was from yesterday! I'm pretty sure that he'd play ball every day if he could!

Talk to you next week!

August 16th, 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? I am okay. We have had a quiet week. Mom worked all week. She hasn't really felt like sitting outside, so we've spent most of the week on the couch. 

On Sunday, we all went to see Graham and Pierce. Pierce is getting so big! (So is Graham, but he's old enough where he doesn't look that much older in each picture we take!)

Graham wanted to play with Oliver, but Oliver really wanted nothing to do with it, so we didn't stay for too long. But it was nice to see them! (He's holding onto Oliver's leash, but it's not connected to Oliver-- he wanted to take Oliver for a walk, but Oliver disagreed!)

Talk to you next week! I hope you're having a great day!

August 9th, 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? I am okay. We have had a quiet week around here.

We have spent a good part of our spare time siting on the porch with Oliver. He is very persuasive. He likes watching the world go by. He takes his responsibility of a guard dog very seriously. Sometimes we don't know what he is offended by, but we take his word for it. He does not care for people walking the walking path across the road (and across the front yard-- it's quite a distance away), turkeys, chipmunks, squirrels, and when the neighbors themselves are out in their own yard. He gets very loud, but it seems so important to him. I think we should be happy he takes his job so earnestly-- who knows would've snuck in if he hadn't been paying attention!

Talk to you next week! 

August 2nd, 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? I’m okay. We have had a quiet week around here. 

Lark made herself a little picnic yesterday.  I think Mom should take all of us out on a picnic. Have any of you been on a picnic? I don’t know how I’d feel about bugs near my food, but I think I’d like the sun and the breeze! 

Talk to you next week!

July 26th, 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? I am okay.  This week has been much quieter than last week! We’ve had electricity all week!

Mom has mostly been working lately, so I don’t have anything to report. I hope we can do something interesting next week. Maybe a trip to the park!

July 19th, 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? I am okay. It is very hot and humid here in Wisconsin. Our WiFi is also being stupid, so Mom says she’s not in the mood to write for too much. 

We do have air conditioning in the house, but there isn’t any at Mom’s job. Oliver approves of the air conditioning inside the house. He actually wants to sit outside, but it’s like he either forgets that it’s so hot or thinks somebody will have done something about it. 

The weather is supposed to cool down next week, so maybe I’ll be able to convince Mom to write a longer entry!

July 12th 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? I am okay. We have some good news! Mom’s sister had her baby! She named him Pierce!

He was born last Saturday. Graham spent the weekend with us when his mom was in the hospital. Mom and Graham went to the zoo. We all went to Berlin to see the baby too. It was all very exciting!

I hope you all have a great week! Talk to you next time!

July 5th, 2019

Hello everyone! I'm sorry we're late! Mom told me that we would type up our entry when she got home from work. She even got out of work early-- but we napped instead. (It's hot and humid, and it's humid where she works.) I noticed as well that our last post was our 500th, and we didn't notice that when we posted it! Oh well.

So last week, for Mom's birthday, they went to the zoo at the end of the road. It's a little private zoo, but they have some pretty impressive animals.  Mom mostly only has pictures of the petting zoo animals because they're the only ones that don't have a fence in between!

There were plenty of baby goats. I think I would like a baby goat some day. Mom says there is a very good chance that a baby goat would want to chew on me though, so I don't know if that's a good idea. Mom says we can have a baby plush goat though! 

This pig was one of Mom's favorite parts of the zoo. She didn't really care what anyone did-- as long as she could nap. She slept through a lot of little kids, and just got up and moved when they annoyed her too much. 

I hope you all are having a great week. Talk to you next time! (Hopefully on time!)