Mimi Linna, Lilly and Lolly's Blog – August 2011 Archive (5)

Lilly will now go in her crate without going banshee on us. She is sleeping through the night with only one potty break. She eats 3 meals a day 6/ 11/ 6 and has a kong with a treat/dog food/ peanut butter spread about 2ish.. she is awake about 1.5 hrs and then sleeps about 2 hrs. I put her in her crate during nap times.

She has learned how to talk and will talk to you when you are talking to her.. she gets to go for a ride in the car about every other day. She still whines when she…

Yesterday was a red letter day for Lilly. She got to have a playdate with her brother, Peanut.  Madeline and Peanut and family live in Omaha (about 70 miles from Brownville, NE) and we were able to spend the afternoon with them.

As soon as Lilly and Peanut saw each other, they started playing and did not stop for an hour. Peanut was the largest of the litter and Lilly was the smallest and Peanut still outweighs her by about a…

Lilly is feeling quite comfortable at home. She takes her toys out of the toy box and like my children, never puts them back. She has discovered the poochie bells and can ring it herself. It is very exciting.. two grown people jump out of their chairs/ stop whatever they are doing and let her outside.  She picks up leaves/ twigs/ looks for bugs and by accident goes potty and then whichever parent is out in the yard with her makes a big deal out of it.. like man landing on the moon big deal.…

I think we got down the crate thing. For the last two nights she just goes in the crate ( okay, I put her in the crate and hold her back and close the door) and lies down without making a sound. The first time it happened, I thought I had gone deaf and was having a stroke because all I heard was a beating heart but then I realized it was her heart thing in the crate. Last night, she only cried to be let out at 2 and slept till 545am. Today, we took an 1.5 nap, she in her crate and I in the…

Holey Moley... has it been a ride these last few days. At times bumpy, but always an adventure. The first two nights  was hard on all of us. I hated to hear her howl, cry,  and whimper and ended up having her sleep with me. Well she slept, I was afraid she was going to fall off the bed so the first night I put a mattress on the floor in the kitchen and we slept there.  The second night I lasted 1 hr with her howling then put her in bed with me..as soon as she went to sleep, I put her back in…