Charlotte Turns 1 and Her BFF is Peri

[Allyson, Peri & Taquito]

Charlotte turned 1 on September 21.  My how time flies when you are having fun!  Life has been going well, just super busy balancing work with home life.  The dogs are doing GREAT.  We have really been working with them on training and Taquito has not been aggressive toward Charlotte at all lately.  If she approaches him and he's not in the mood, we have taught him to walk away and he gets a LOT of praise when he does that. Last week, she came up and I asked Taquito if Charlotte could pet him. She approached slowly (I constantly am saying "slow and gentle") to her.  He actually rolled over and let her pet him.  This is a HUGE milestone. 

 

Peri, on the other hand, can't get enough of her human sibling. She loves her so much.  Follows me to her room when I feed her, get her dressed, etc...  It's so cute.  I have to admit that we made a mistake a few weeks ago of just assuming Peri would never do anything to hurt Charlotte.  We let Peri have an antler in the playroom while Charlotte was awake. Charlotte approached Peri and before I could stop her, Peri bit Charlotte's forhead.  No worries, she was fine, just very upset.  There was a tiny bruise and she didn't break the skin.  But Peri did get in some trouble, but mainly DH and I blamed ourselves. Since then, we have been extremely diligent and do not allow antlers to be out at all when Charlotte is around. We put them up whenever she is awake and keep them in one spot out of their reach.  That has been working well.  I am almost ashamed to write that this happened (that we let this happen), but I am putting it out there in hopes that other owners read this and think about their part in their doodles obedience, aggressiveness, etc... 9x out of 10 it is OUR FAULT!  That being said, all is good lately and the two ladies seem to be best buds :)

 

But really, the dogs, Charlotte, etc.. are all doing so well. We are very very blessed to have a healthy 1-year old that is walking, jabbering and is actually picking up on things I say (like when I say GENTLE, she slows down and approaches the dogs differently). 

 

Here are some pictures from the past few weeks.

Here is "the Peri chair" from Pottery Barn Kids. We couldn't resist. Charlotte goes up to it, kisses it, pets it :)

 

She did NOT like cake at her birthday party.

 

 

Peri patiently awaits a treat.  What a good girl.

[Adina P]

Ditto to everything Karen said except her joy at lack-of-cake-love ;-)  Charlotte is darling and that chair so cool!
None of my kids were crazy about their 1 year old cake.  Luckily, I was :-D  But now my daughter gives thanks for her 3 year cake every single night and that was nearly a year ago!

[Janie, Jackson and Jilly]

Happy Birthday to Charlotte! She is just beautiful! Love her chair!

[Jennifer and Jack]

Love Love Love!

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

Happy Birthday Charlotte!! You are such a little doll!!

Good reminder about being responsible with our doodles around children. The dynamic can change so quickly. Glad you have a good system in place now.

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Happy Birthday, Charlotte.

[Carol and Banjo]

Happy Birthday little Charlotte!   Allyson, she's absolutely beautiful!!!!    What a darling family you have!  Baby and puppies!

[BG and Gavin]

What Karen said!  With an additional mention of how beautiful Charlotte is and what a good mom you are!

[Becka]

Happy birthday, Charlotte! I love your doodle chair!

[Pat and Traveler]

Oh, what a cutie!  That chair is amazing! 

Glad you posted about the antler--it's a good reminder for all of us, even if we don't usually have little ones around--we do have other visitors and child situations. 

Love that last photo--good Peri!

[Joanna, Zoe & Bender]

Happy 1st birthday Charlotte!  I love the Peri chair :)

thankyou for sharing the story about Peri and the antler...it really does make owners more aware.