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Emma's 3rd Birthday!!


My Emma Jean or Emma Chotsky or Puppet as my sister likes to call her celebrated her 3rd birthday with the family yesterday. She was treated to a slue of doggie treats and a trip to the dog park! I can't believe she is 3 years old already. I was living in Vegas when I began looking for a puppy to accompany me on hikes and other adventures. A friend of mine that I worked with said that she had one puppy left from her last accidental litter and she thought that I would be a perfect fit. I met Emma at a Petsmart store where I carried her nervous, squirming self around and fell in love. Her ride to the store that day was in fact her first car ride and she was terrified. I took her on a car ride everyday that weekend to different parks where we walked around. She quickly got over that fear and many others....

-She will now not only walk in puddles (she use to be terrified, wouldn't step in one even on a 100 + degree day..) but she will also walk in running water, and Connor's mini swimming pool.
-She not only got over her fear of walking up steps but she now will willingly and eagerly jump/climb any rock pile, boulder, wood border, you name it she will climb it (or fall trying).
-She has learned to dig quite well (and now that we have a garden I have to try to teach her not to dig...ugh what have I done...)
- She is an amazing flyer
- She is patient and gentle with children (even when they have kicked her, pulled her ear, pulled her jugular, yanked her leg and sat on her)

My first baby (which everybody finds amusing) is growing up! We love you Emma Chotsky! Emma has no idea what is in store for her when Connor begins crawling. Connor just loves watching Emma, he just smiles away at her. Emma loves kissing Connor!

I'm carrying Emma Chotsky before we cross over the scary draw bridge

Connor's Room

While Connor was sleeping the other day I untangled the tree that we had set up in Connor's old loft bedroom (which he never entered because we were only there for one night before we moved into our new house) and put it together in his new bedroom. Patrick was pretty impressed with my ability to untangle the mess that he was ready to toss.

While rooting around in his closet I found some safari stickers and I placed them beneath the tree along with the extra tree leaves.

The other wall of his room is coming along too. We have two shelves hung and some more safari stickers. Next we need some decorations and perhaps a picture in that frame.