Gender differences update

According to Milo, you're a boy if you have a penis and tentacles, and you're a girl if you have a mergina.

Just wanted to make sure you were aware of this. Keep those tentacles under control, boys!

Milo's newsflash

Okay, so the kid is getting MUCH more creative at making up excuses as to why he won't eat (or even try) certain things. Tonight I offered him a bite of my leftover lasagna to try, and instead of saying "No thanks," Milo said this:

"You know, I saw on the news today that eating lasagna is BAD for 4-year old kids. It makes their brains turn red and fall out of their heads."

Well, now, we certainly don't want THAT to happen, do we?

By the way, Milo was eating a nice healthy dinner of a chicken patty, a biscuit with cheese and some applesauce, so the lasagna just would have been a lil' appetizer if he had taken the risk and eaten it.

More pictures

Our wedding, lo these many years ago.....

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Big Steps for A Big Man!

Some major "big man" changes are going on around here! Just this past week, Milo has figured out how to do two huge and important things:

1. Wipe his own butt! Woooooo hooooooo! This is a huge load off my mind (no pun intended :)

2. Snap his own jeans!

Milo can also open his own milk carton all by himself, and pick out his own clothes and put them on all by himself, right side up and right side out AND sometimes makes his own peanut butter sandwiches for breakfast. (with a little supervision)

You know you're a redneck when...

My junkyard dogs!

Quinn has his face cage on, just in case, and Lily is happy to be going for a ride. In the background, Corey is working on the Nova.

You have a dog crate stuffed with two big dogs in the back of your truck! Those two hair up the inside of my truck so much when I take them for a ride it's unbelievable. So I thought I would try something a little different today. It worked out perfectly, once I convinced them to get in it. Lily looked at me like I was off my rocker when I put her in there, and then Quinn joined her. They were smashed in there like sardines, but after the initial shock wore off, they sooooo LOVED it. I drove them to the park for a walk and training session, and all the way there and back, those two snouts were in the air and the gums were flapping in the breeze. I'll have to get a tarp or something to throw over the crate in the cooler weather, but this is definitely the way to travel with those two. I am also going to look for another crate, so the two of them won't be so cramped up and we can go for longer rides.

Quinn loved being a junkyard dog so much that he didn't want to come out of the crate when we got home, so I left him in there for a while. He is too funny.

This is the song that was running through my head the entire time I was tooling around with the mutts: the Sanford & Son theme.

Backyard delights

Corey took some lovely pictures of our backyard in the late afternoon sunlight. We both love this time of year, when the plants are still looking good, but the weather is so much more enjoyable. And the bugs are a lot less noticeable!

Corey's sunflower patch. Some of the sunflowers are about 10 feet tall!

The back 40 that backs up to the field behind us. It always looks so tranquil in the late afternoon.

The very definition of a hussy

You've all known girls like this in college. They'll sleep in anyone's bed as long as it's convenient for them. Meet Monet. I swear, that cat would go sleep in the neighbors' beds if we let her. I've found her in the dogs' various sleeping areas, in our beds...and most recently, when I was making Milo's bed the other day, this is what I found.

Cat lump. At first I thought it was a big wrinkle in the sheets, and then it meeped at me when I tried to flatten it out.

You hussy!

Want a laugh?

I have been sucked into the forces of the dark side and now have a facebook page. I'm not all that enthused about the experience, although I do have to say the photo uploading is quick and easy. I posted a bunch of "blast from the past" photos recently....check them out at:
Good times!