October 25th, 2011

My mom and I wanted to share with you a cool website we found. It’s called PostCrossing. It is sort of an international postcard exchange. We have currently sent out three postcards, one to Illinois, another to Utah, and one to Poland. We have only received one.

It is one from the Where’s Waldo children’s books. It was also from Utah. When Mom made the account, she clicked a box that said that we wouldn’t mind sending postcards to the same countries more than once. She thought that it meant that we would receive them from more distant places! I told her that Utah is pretty far for me!

It is getting colder and colder. Soon there will be snow on the ground! Mom says that she hopes that it will wait a while though! Our trees are turning pretty colors though! I like fall. I like all the pretty colors and the cooler temperatures. Mom says that it’s probably a part of being a bear—even though I don’t hibernate!

Hope you are having a great day!!

October 21st, 2011

Mom’s domo obsession has taken over a small place on our shelves. I guess I’m lucky that she’s only interested in the brightly colored ones.

We have more than this now. I admit I think they’re kind of cute, but they’re awfully loud! For a bear who enjoys quiet times, it’s hard to ignore these little guys and their talking. They’re very friendly creatures—but they never stop talking!

Mom took all the domos she had outside a few days ago to take photos. Since this is supposed to be a blog about a bear, she says that we won’t post them all here. (They’re all at our Flickr account if you would like to see them.) But she did take Milton and I outside. It’s been a while since Milton has been on my blog. He’s one of my best friends!

It was a really nice day. Maybe Mom will take us outside tomorrow. It’s supposed to be nice—it’s been windy and cold here lately. It’s like we skipped fall and went straight to a pre-winter season!
Later!

October 2nd, 2011

Mom has been kind of busy with regular life things, so we haven’t updated lately. We felt like we ought to take time to update today because one of our online friends, Michael the Monkey, gave me an award!

I first thought that I’m really not a toy tourist! Toy tourists travel around the world and see different things! All I’ve done is travel around my home area! But then I really read Michael’s definition—- ‘a toy who travels around, takes pictures, and shares their adventures.’ It dawned on me that Wisconsin is as much as an adventure for people who live around the world as the Netherlands or Russia is to me!

So I’m honored to accept the award! I’ve put it in my blog column to share with everyone! You’re supposed to pass it on to new people, so I am going to pass it on to some friends that Michael has not awarded it to.

Sullivan McPig

Bob the Bear and his sister, Dilly

Beanie Mouse

Tat and Tat 2

Eldritch the Dragon

I’m not sure how to put the script that would allow you to embed it into your own blog like Michael did. I guess you will have to go back to his post and get it from there!

I hope you are all having a great day!

September 24th, 2011

I know this is supposed to be a blog about me, but Mom bought Adelaide a new outfit yesterday and wants to share the pictures. Since she’s my mom and my typist, I figure I should let her. She says that maybe I can have my own photo-shoot tomorrow, which I am looking forward to!

She bought the outfit at Toys R Us. It’s from a doll named Journey Girls. It really doesn’t fit very well, but it is pretty and Mom can find her a skirt to make it work better.

Adelaide apparently didn’t want to go outside for her photo-shoot—she didn’t say anything to Mom, but fell out of a tree that she was placed in, and fell over when Mom put her on the ground. Luckily, it didn’t seem to hurt her at all! Mom said that she ought to have said something and she would’ve taken someone else outside! Sometimes, girls are so difficult to understand!

Mom also took some nature pictures. We have an apple orchard in our front yard. No one sprays them for the bugs and such, so they look a bit beat up after a summer outside.

Mom says that is what real apples look like. They’re still good eating!

Hope you all are having a good day. More bear pictures soon!

September 22nd, 2011

It turns out that Bob the Bear was right—Caleb was on a secret mission. It turns out that while he was in Mom’s purse at work, he found out that some special guests were coming to live at our house. He needed to scoot away to learn their language before they moved in.

Meet the Domos! Right now, only Caleb can understand them. They tell him that it will be a little while before they can talk to the rest of us. Mom found out about the domos from this lady on Flickr. She’s always wanted one, and she discovered that her store now carries them!

I listened to them talk for a while to Caleb. He’s pretty happy that they talk to him. He considers himself the ambassador to life around here for the domos! (He’s always been a bit dramatic!)

Adelaide came to see what was happening. I was kind of glad that she did, because she’s got fingers and is able to pick up fast, darting things, much like domos. My paws don’t move quite that fast!

She caught one of the domos! She asked the strawberry domo what it’s name was and it turned out to be Atsuko. Well, we think that’s what her name is—we still don’t quite understand what they’re saying, and Caleb is miffed that Adelaide came in and took control of the domos. (Mom and I don’t mind!)

We’ll keep you all updated on our new invasion of domos! I’m sure that my Mom will invite more of them home!

September 13th, 2011

Today, Mom took Milton and I to recover Caleb from her friend’s house. About a week ago, Mom forgot Caleb in a bag in her friend’s car! (It was a mistake, so I understood.)

After the car ride, Mom, Caleb, and I went outside for a while. In the same bag that Caleb spent the week in was our new friend, Whittle.

He is a TY Beanie Buddy bear. Mom saved him from a thrift store. This time, she really saved him! He was in the free bin! Who knows what happens after the free bin!! That sounds so scary!

It was a very nice day. It was nice and cool—which is good for teddy bears with fur coats. It was also very sunny, which I like. Soon the leaves will start falling off the trees and maybe Mom will take us outside for another photo-shoot like last year! Who knows!

September 7th, 2011

My mom has been taking me traveling lately! It’s just to work, but I get to go outside!

This is my traveling bag. Mom usually lets me pick out one of my friends to come with. The two of us fit in there nicely. We have a blanket to cover up. She usually only takes us when it is nice outside, since we have to spend the whole day in the car. Sometimes, she comes outside and spends her break with us! It’s pretty fun though either way. We get to play around in the car and people watch!

Do your people take you all anywhere? Mom has taken Caleb on all her vacations. He’s been to Kansas, Minnesota, and all over Wisconsin! I see some of your blog entries with vacations and I’m jealous! I hope now that Mom drives herself (and therefore the car she takes someplace might be hers) I will get to go with next time!

I hope you all are having a great day!