The Babies Are Growing

All the babies are growing and doing well. Logan is now 6 months old, 28 inches, and a little over 20 pounds. He is a happy baby!

Since Tim has to be at work at 3am on stupid black Friday and Mickie has to work, and the daycare is closed that day....I guess they all want to go shopping...anyway, Logan is spending Thanksgiving night and Friday with me. I am sure we are going to have a good time.




Sarah is growing too. I'm not sure how much she weighs right now. Her next appointment is the first Friday in December. She has definitely grown. Her collar is no longer hanging on her and although she is still skinny, she is not as skinny as she was. She is eating about 4 cups of puppy chow a day, sometimes with coaxing and encouragement, but she's eating.

Her ears have their good days and their bad days. Yesterday was a good day for her ears...today, not so much. She is really coming along nicely.

She will soon be in need of a bigger crate too. When she stands up in hers, she is nearly at the top of it now.

Her coloring is really coming out now...she is going to be beautiful, for sure.

SC Governor's School - Visit

Marianne is applying to go to the Governor's School for 11th and 12th grade. So we went to their open campus day for prospective students.








The Governor's School is in the downtown area of Greenville and is a resident high school.











The campus is absolutely gorgeous, with beautiful views all around, including overlooking the Reedy River.















The courtyard and ampitheater.


























The dining hall, not to be compared to regular high school food.











One of the classrooms.













The girls dorm and the boys dorm....boys on the left wing, girls on the right.
















Other places around the campus between the dorms and the classrooms, library, and courtyard.



We had a great day at the Governor's School. It is in a league of its own. Trying to compare Westside High School to this school was a joke. There are about 225 students here, pretty evenly split between girls and boys as the dorms are the same size. The catch to that is that there are about 10 times more girls applying to the school than boys, so there is a lot more competition for the girls in getting accepted. Marianne will be submitting her application and samples of her creative writing. Interviews will take place on February 5th. Letters of acceptance are not sent out until some time in April. We are hoping for the best.

Oh the Joy of Toys

Both of Sarah's ears are up, mostly anyway.
She had her first puppy class last night and did very well after she got over being scared. We practiced sit, sit-stay, take-it and give.









As I mentioned before, Sarah LOVES the dog toys!! (I put my tennis shoes away...they are Not dog toys.)












Sarah is growing and has been eating more the last couple of days. But she is still too thin. I think eventually she will get all caught up. She did eat a total of 3 1/2 cups of puppy chow with a little bit of canned, along with her missing link and pumpkin.






















































She is adjusting well and seems to know that she belongs to me. :)

Meet Sarah

This is Sarah. She is my new German Shepherd puppy. She is 12 weeks old now. She is going to grow up to be a good watchdog for me and Marianne.

She is very active and is keeping me on my toes. When Charlie was a puppy, his version of activity was changing the position he was sleeping in.

Sarah's Aunt Lisa gave her some new toys, that she thoroughly enjoys. She is doing pretty well on housebreaking and learning about walking on the leash. Since she is a bit skinny, we are also working on improving her appetite.

Sarah, Charlie, and Kellie