Night Out

Saturday was Jacob's birthday. While he went to ride his bike in the mountains all day, Emmi and I made him a birthday cake and puttered around the house. That night Jacob and I went to see a Charlotte Checkers ice hockey game. It was our first night out. Who better to stay with Punkin than Arleigh and Jeannie. Right before we were getting ready to leave someone was getting fussy. So I topped her off so that she would be a little happier. The game was good. I think the most interesting part was when some 50 somethings started yelling at two 25-30 year olds in the stands.

Punkin did well for her first real night away from us. Jeannie and Arleigh will be watching her again this coming weekend since we have Stomp tickets. I feel lucky to have such great friends that I know I dont have to worry at all while away from lil P. Really Jeannie is the one who watches Emmi and Arleigh watches Kona. It works out quite well.

We have gotten in a good routine for the work week. Although my boss is looking for me to come into the office more than the one day a week I am doing now. I will chat with my neighbor to see how she would feel about watching Punkin two full days.

I will post up some pics soon.

On the move...

Emmi is on the move... well at least wiggling herself around. When I put her on her mat she manages to wiggle herself at least 90 degrees around. Right now she just managed to turn herself 180 degrees.

She is big on lifting her legs straight up and then dropping them to the side. This is how I think she turns herself. We have been working on rolling over. When she lifts her legs up and throws them to the side I will help her continue going all the way over. She also lifts her legs and then just drops them down when she is in her crib. So not only do we get woken up by her talking in the morning but we get to hear the thump thump of her legs. All too cute.

Emmi's new hat that Memere made her while she was here.

Here she is with her cousins, Benjamin and Tyler. Benjamin has given her the nickname of Cow-cow.

Kona's 4 year Anniversary

Last week Kona had a big day, he had his 4 year anniversary of living with us on Thursday...... Here is his story. When we lived in Gardner we decided that we wanted a dog. At the time Jacob's boss volunteered with Pit Bull and Rotweiller rescue. We told her we were looking for a dog that could go running with me, maybe biking with us, and be a great family pet. She came across Kona, who was named Gus at a shelter in Westfield, NY which was like 7-8 hours away. The rescue network is amazing. Kona was suppose to be transported to CT for us so we didnt have to drive the long distance. The transport got cancelled because there was suppose to be a snow storm. We had the option either drive to NY ourselves or let Kona be adopted by someone else. By the time we found out we had already fell in love with him, and decided to drive there to get him plus he was a pure bred Yellow Labrador Retriever.


So Friday February 6th we went to bed super early so that we could get up the next day to get him. A wrench was thrown at us when we got the dreaded call that night that my grandfather passed away. Then we didnt know what to do. We discussed it and Jacob was going to go anyways but then he couldnt find someone to make the drive with him. So I went along. Luckily my sister-in-law's sister, Tami, lived an hour from the shelter. We drove there on Saturday so first thing Sunday we could head to the shelter. We hung out with Kona for about an hour at the shelter before we hoped in the car to make the long drive back to Gardner. He was his, what we found out to be his typical self, lying in the back with occasionally hitting our arms to pet him.


Kona was found stray but the shelter thought they knew where he came from. They called the people pet collectors, people who get a puppy but then let them go once they are grown. We were fortunate to have adopted such a great pet. Kona Joseph Burns is his official name and he was 2 when we got him. I think Grandpa was watching over us to make sure things worked out great.

Since we had the funeral and such the beginning of the week, there were many people around. He did great. I had the week off for the funeral which gave me plenty of time to hang out with him. He was already house trained and didnt have any issues. We still to this day cant figure out why someone would have let him go. We were on the look out for negative behaviors but never saw any. The only thing we cant do is leave plastic containers in the sink or food out as he will get them when we are not home.


The picture attached was taken the end of January. Kona is very protective of Emmi. If someone comes over that he doesnt know and they get too close to Emmi, he will stand in between them and even jump at them when too close for comfort. The jumping up is not normal for him to do. We often find him sleeping in her room. I was in Emmi's closet the other day with her and he didnt see me. He came into the room, looked in her crib and then proceeded to look for us.


We couldnt have asked for a better dog. Happy Anniversary Kona.

Hi-ho Hi-ho it's off to work I go.....

Yesterday was my first day back at work. In the week or so prior to that day I was stressing a bit. From things like how much milk to leave for Emmi to am I going to cry the whole day to was I going to survive on little sleep to is everything going to work fine.


Tuesday night Emmi decided to go to bed around 9:00pm and sleep until 6:00am. She has been consistently sleeping 8-9+ hours but she wasnt going to sleep until 11:30 or later. It worked out perfect since I was in bed by 10 got up and was showered before she woke up. Then I fed her, put her back down and off to work I went.


Memere was here to watch her for the day. My drive in was fine, I didnt cry like I thought I might. Once at work things were crazy and I didnt get much done. People kept stopping by and then I had to pump so little real work got accomplished. I called once to check in on Emmi & Memere and Jacob did the same. Then it was time to come back home. I couldnt drive fast enough to get home since there were cars in the way :^). When I got home Emmi was sleeping but she awoke shortly after I got in. She ignored me a little at first but then hung out.


Today is the start of working from home. She went to sleep at 10:30pm last night and got up at 8:15am so the start of another great day. I have gotten some stuff done in the early morning and now Memere will play with her during her awake moments.


I think this will all work out great.