sweet baby girl

this little girl. 9 weeks today. so very sweet. so very gentle. loves to be held. knows how to sit on command. knows how to lay on command. loves soft blankets. sometimes loves kisses and other times don't. likes to play with our underwear and drag it across the house if we don't catch her. has terrified us at least 3 times in medical/health emergencies. we thought we had to take her to emergency vet once. is weary of coming out of her cage and sometimes wants help since the incident where she got her claws stuck between the holes of the cage when trying to come out. needs to go potty around 4-5 am each night. when taking her out of her cage to go potty in the middle of the night, she will immediately push her butt up against my legs to have me pick her up to go outside. loves following us around the house, including snoopy, when she is not busy playing with toys. is very scared of our garage and we're not sure why yet. she will shake tremendously and then flop her body to the ground without moving anywhere. likes to eat snoopy's food instead of hers. will get excited and jump up and down when we ask her if she needs to go potty. and of course, she likes to take naps like her older brother.

edit: one thing i forgot to add - she yawns and makes a yawning noise every single time she wakes up from a nap. sooo cute!

so ready for fall

i'm sooooooooo glad the fall weather is coming around. it has been good this weekend and i hope it carries on tomorrow and for the rest of the week. love the nice breeze. it was the perfect day to make one of my favorite soup!...potato and broccoli soup! delish!

remembering 9/11/01

exactly eight years ago around this time of day, i started to secretly cry to myself after seeing people jump off the windows of the twin towers to death, some holding hands or hugging each other. it was only a few days later that i cried even more as i watched the news and heard the voice messages victims left for their family members to confess their love for them during the last few minutes and seconds of their lives.

i remember telling everybody the sadness i felt to watch what was going on on the other side of the country. i told them i cried and and it got passed around it seemed, as one day, somebody came up to me and said, "i heard you cried watching the 9/11 attack?" and smiled at me mockingly. i thought to myself, "of course, who wouldn't after seeing such a tragedy." that person was just a year or two younger than me and maybe, less emotional. yes, nobody i knew personally was in the attack zone but how could i not show emotion from hearing that thousands of innocent civilians lost their lives so suddenly and so tragically. it's hard not to think of the family and friends who did have to experience the lost of somebody they held close to their hearts.

a tragic day it was. and it was only during that period of time in my life in which i ever felt an ounce of patriotism. i remember feeling angry and hurt that there are people out there who are so evil to have caused such destruction. i wanted so badly for somebody to find these people and punish them for their wrongdoings.

however, i felt even more angry at the americans who attacked other based on their race. i started to think that these people maybe should have been the ones who died in the attack instead as they are ignorant and stupid. RIP all the victims who died as a result of the 9/11 and I will cont. to be thankful and grateful for mine.

puppies!!!!!!

picture heavy post.... but look at all the cute puppies. they are much cuter in person.

snoopy and milly sleeping

misty trying to fight with snoopy for the ball and who knows what milly is doing

misty doing her creepy crawly move

misty

misty loves david's shoulder

what are you looking at milly

eli looking up.

eli sleeping. he loves being on the sofa. that's when he's calm and not getting buck wild.

eli resting on david's arm. he fell asleep shortly after.

all three sleeping. milly is sleeping all funky. left to right: milly, eli, and misty

they are much cuter in person...so too bad for you guys. hehe.

i have not been feeling my best the last few days. i hope i feel better soon because i feel like an unorganized mess with work. i hate not being organized and it stresses me out. but today, i had one of these...and it made me happy for a little bit. i love raley's poppy seed muffins. so yummy.