Week Thirty Three

I am caught up with your blog now and that feels really great.  I love writing about you and your adventures and how you change and grow and make our lives amazing.  I need to make time for it every week, instead of these marathon sessions.

You got Christmas presents from Aunt Sally and Uncle Jake this week.  Including this crazy cute owl hat.  We make you wear it all the time, but you don't seem to mind.

Your sleep has been really erratic again and we suspect that you are teething.  I can feel three teeth moving down, but none are super close to the gum line yet.  I hope that they all break through around the same time so that you will have some relief for a while.  The teething tablets help some, but you are having a hard time.

You officially love solid food.  You open your mouth so wide when we feed you, like a baby Grackle and eat 1/4 cup of food per sitting.  You have even decided that sweet potato is a good thing, as long as we mix it with apples or pears.  I love making you baby food and can proudly say that you have never eaten anything out of a jar.  Except your rice and oatmeal cereal I have made everything you have eaten.

We have started to look for another Shepherd and you are so amazing at the shelter, the noises and the smells and all the dogs don't bother you in the slightest.  You are your mama's girl that is for sure.  We have not found the perfect dog yet, and in fact I got so sad just looking we decided to take a break for a while.  I want you to have an amazing dog to grow up with.  I hope that someday you can have a relationship with a dog that was as special as my relationship with Audrey.  The dog of a life time.

You and Audrey the day before she died