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! 

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!

May 2nd, 2019

Hello everyone! How are you? I am okay. We had an interesting weekend last week. Mom and some of my friends attended a doll meetup.

Mom brought Adelaide, Joaquin, Zola, Ionani, Caleb, Wren, Raven, and Lark inside. Milton, Foster, and I waited in the car. Mom had an okay time. There was a raffle. Mom thought that she had a fair amount of tickets, but that there were a lot of people who had a lot more tickets then she did. But it turned out that she was a lot more lucky then she thought. She won THREE dolls! She even tried to pass on the last one, but they drew her name again!

This is a picture of them while they were still at the doll meetup. Everyone has now gotten used to our dolly-verse, so they've told us their names.

This is Andromeda. She is a SoulDoll/Volks hybrid.

This is Eleanor. She is a Lee Middleton Reva Schick toddler.

And finally this is Ramona. She is a Paola Reina doll. Mom says she doesn't quite know what to do with everybody. But we'll figure something out. I hope you all have a great day!

June 23rd, 2017

Mom and Caleb went to a park in Oshkosh for one of Mom’s work things. It had a little zoo!

Mom’s sister works for the same company, so they wandered around together! It was sort of raining, but not too bad. I think some of the animals didn’t like the rain.

Look at this fine fellow. He talked to the little kids that were in the park. They gobbled right back at him.

Mom’s brother-in-law brought Graham. (He had to pick Sam up anyways!) He didn’t really seem to be interested in the animals, just walking around and playing in the mud!

Mom was hoping for a petting zoo, but there wasn’t one. The corn feeding dispensers were empty near the animals too.
We love animals, so this was kind of fun. Mom even got paid to hang out! She says that she’ll take the rest of us someday! I would like to look at the lake.
Have any of you been to a zoo? I think I would like to go!

May 5th, 2017

Hello everyone! How are you? Things are pretty much the same for all of us. Mom did place an order from Build-a-Bear though. I have a brand new shirt!

She saw the t-shirt in an ad on Facebook of all places, and we had to have it! (Although, even though it’s probably only a week old, it’s already pilling, so Mom’s patience for it is dwindling.) Mom has seen shirts for Life is Good at gift stores.
Mom posted this on Instagram, but I thought I would share it here too. In our area of Wisconsin, there is a fish called the lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens). They are living fossils! They’ve been around for 136 MILLION YEARS! One of the places they breed is on the rocks of the Wolf River in a tiny town called Shiocton, Wisconsin. A few days ago, Mom went there to look at the overflowing Wolf River. It turned out that there were still some sturgeon there!

Mom uploaded a video to her Instagram account. I wanted to upload it here, but it won’t let me without uploading it to YouTube first. So here is a link to some ancient fish in action!
Hope you’re having a great day! Talk to you next week!

July 1st, 2016

Hello, everybody! How are you all? Things here are very quiet! Mom had her vacation last week. We didn't go anywhere until the very end. She took Milton, Caleb, Foster and I to see her sister and Graham!

They mostly just stayed inside, so there isn't any pictures of the town that they live in. We have some pictures to share, but it turns out that the app we have on the iPad doesn't work anymore. We'll add more later!

Mom worked a lot this week, so we're actually writing this on the day that it's going to be posted, rather than a few days in advance. We will write more next week! Mom rescued some of our friends from eBay, so we have some plushies to introduce! Talk to you all later!

June 17th, 2016

Good afternoon, everybody! How are you? Things around here have been pretty quiet! Mom has been working a lot this week. It was four days in a row—and that usually doesn’t happen. But now she’s on VACATION! Woot!

We’ve had a new friend move in. This is Hank. He is an octopus! (Mom says that he’s actually a septopus, because he only has seven arms.) He looks kind of cranky, but he seems to be a nice guy.

Mom and Caleb recently went to this exhibit. It was at the Paine Art Museum. There was a large room with about twenty or thirty prints. They were prints from Audubon’s time. They were very pretty. Mom especially liked the turkey one. Caleb liked the one with the ruby-throated hummingbird. In another room, there was a TV playing a PBS documentary about Audubon and his life. There was some modern reproductions of the prints there, including the pink flamingo. Mom and her friend wandered around the inside of the museum.
They walked around the outside of the garden when they were walking back to the car. The museum has a garden around it. There was a pond. Mom likes ponds because they sometimes hold koi. This one was empty, but it was still very pretty!

There was a hedge nearby that was covered in roses. It was very pink and very pretty.

Since the flowers weren’t for picking, Mom took a picture of one instead!

We’ve also been spending a lot of time with Graham. He likes to lie on the ground and kick and talk. Oliver is very fond of Graham, so we spend a lot of time on the ground with him too!

I hope you all have a great week! Mom and I are going to do some great things! Talk to you later!

April 20th, 2013

Things have been pretty quiet here. We're still trying to find a new puppy, and we still miss Princess. There is a puppy in Illinois that Mom found. We're trying to make an appointment to see him, but the lady seems to be very busy.

A few days ago, Mom took Robinson to Build-a-Bear to get new clothes. Robinson doesn't fit clothes very well, and Mom had an idea to bring him with to make sure he fit them. She got talking to the very nice manager lady, and she put more stuffing inside him! (Robinson doesn't know, but he might go back to get some of the stuffing removed, because he's a bit too firm now!) Now, Robinson can sit up on his own!

Mom went to Build-a-Bear to bring home a new friend. When Mom was a little girl, she loved My Little Pony. She is amused that it is so popular now! One bright side to this is that there is very cool things to buy! We welcomed Rainbow Dash, a MLP BAB into our hug!

She seems like a very nice girl, and we're all looking forward to getting to know her!

We tried posting this with Blogsy, but Mom either quite hasn’t gotten the handle of it, or it’s just not going to make the posts as pretty as Mom wants them to be. So we had to redo it!

Posted with Blogsy

July 20th, 2012

A long time ago, my mom found a fellow plushie blog called Buttons’ Because. In an attempt to exchange mail, my mom found out that Buttons and his mom lived in Illinois, which is very near (at least in the plushie world) where we live in Wisconsin.

Fast forward a year or two, and Buttons’ mom announced that they were coming up north for a graduation party! It was located only about a half an hour away from where I live! We quickly agreed to meet!

And here we are! My mom and Buttons’ mom met at a McDonalds, had a little breakfast, and then went to a local park to take pictures! Don’t we both look really snazzy! It was a beautiful day!

Caleb and Scruffy decided that they also wanted their picture taken. I like their matching Chicago White Soxs hats! Maybe I ought to get Mom to make Caleb and I some matching hats!

We went for a little walk. Buttons’ Mom found some really cool boulders to let us climb on. For a bear who spends most of his time either on the bed, on the couch, or in his mom’s arms, the climbing was really cool! I told Mom that she’s got to take me out climbing again real soon!

I liked being outside! Mom lets me go outside on the porch all the time, but it was nice to see new things!

Mom and I think we ought to break up the visit into more posts so it doesn’t get too long—but you all get to see all the pictures!

June 24th, 2012

One more bunch of zoo pictures for my blog! Mom loves taking zoo pictures! Next I hope we can share our pictures from Buttons’ visit!

My mom really loves horses, including zebras. Someday, we’re going to own one! (You can have pet zebras!) This one was very happy to pose for Mom’s camera!

Another creature that Mom likes a lot are koi. Last year, there weren’t any koi in the pond, but they returned this year. The water is very clear and makes for very nice pictures.

And lastly, a teenage camel. He’s been at this zoo for a long time. Somewhere on my computer I’ve got pictures of a baby camel!

I hope you all enjoy my zoo pictures! Mom took some pictures of my friends and I after the Buttons’ visit that I will share soon too!

June 20th, 2012

Back to the zoo! Mom loves the petting zoo the most. We both love farm animals, but Mom loves to pet them. (I don’t think I ought to get very close to critters who like to chew on things!)

Mom loves cows. Well, she loves cows as pets! This little calf was Mom’s friend when she was there. She followed her around and started to lick at her purse and keychain.

It apparently tasted really good!

This miniature donkey followed Mom’s sister around. I love his ears!

This is a Polish crested chicken that Mom caught to show her sister how soft her feathers were.

This is a baby-doll faced sheep. They were pretty happy to just sit and enjoy the sun!

Mom says that we have one more blog post’s worth of photos, so there will be more soon! I hope you all are having a great day!

June 17th, 2012

I had SO MUCH FUN hanging out with Buttons and his mom and dad! Button’s mom wants to release the pictures together, so there will be blog posts soon! I thought I would share the getting ready pictures today!

Last night, Mom let us pick out the clothes that we were going to wear. I was a little nervous because I had never met a new bear like this before, but Mom reminded me that it was Buttons and we’ve known him almost forever!

This is all of us all spiffy-ed up! Mom picked out my outfit, but I picked out my shoes! (I have to wear shoes so I stand up better!) It turned out that I probably didn’t make the best decision about the shoes, but there was no way for me to know about that!

Into the travel bag we go! I had to sit on the bottom because of my shoes, and I didn’t like that too much!

And here we are in the front seat of Mom’s car. I was so excited! More pictures later!