Rubber Duckie You're The One...

Here are some cute bathtime photos. And one of her pulling up on the fridge. She's so great.

The Puppy That Lost Her Way

Yesterday, on my weekly trek to my Weight Watchers meeting (stupid baby weight!), I got out of the car and was greeted by a beautiful black lab/pit mix who jumped up gave me lots of kisses. She had a bright purple collar on and no tags. This shopping center is on a very busy road next to the main artery into Houston and her owner was nowhere to be found. A landscaper said "sheee followed me all deee way from deee other side of deee highway". Being my mother's daughter, I decided I was going to find this dog's owner. I threw the lab in the back of the 4Runner, grabbed Maddie, weighed in (up 1.6 lbs! ugh! must have been that Blue Bell cookies and cream ice cream), weighed Maddie (she's at 17lbs now, up 3.5 from the last dr. visit! yay!), skipped the meeting, and went off to find this lovely dog's owners.

I drove around deee other side of deee highway to see if anyone was looking for her, but I saw no one. So I drove towards home. I called our vet to see if they could scan her for a microchip and they said they could. My dogs have microchips and many dogs do, but I figured if this gal didn't even have tags, the likelyhood of her having a microchip was slim to none. The vet tech reiterated this to me as well. But lo and behold, she had one!! The vet told me that she had never seen this happen before. I had to take the pup home, so I left her in the garage and she and Kona and Chula "talked" to one another through the door. Ugh.

After nearly an hour on the phone to various agencies trying to find the address and phone number associated with her microchip, I finally got a call from a nice pizza delivery man named Lee who was missing his dog, Chloe. In the end, Lee and Chloe were reunited and I got even more kisses from a very happy dog, but not from the pizza guy. That would have been weird.



The moral of this story is MICROCHIP YOUR PETS!!!!!

Have You Seen Me?

I am about 2' long and thin, with mottled brown and copper skin and small scales. I love hiding in leaves and underneath porches and I love to be near water. My friends and family are abundant in the South and we love living The Woodlands lifestyle!

I was last seen in The Roth's backyard biting a small, tricolor Cattle Dog. Unfortunately, her owners got her to the vet in time to get the necessary shots. All that venom wasted...

new bathroom pictures

The other bathroom picture that we put up was kind of yellowish (although taken with a super cool fisheye lens), so I'm putting up some more that are true to the color.




And here's Chula being adorable.


In other news, Maddie cut her first tooth this weekend! It's about time! Not looking forward to the biting though... nope, not one bit.

Finally finding friends!

Maddie and I went to a playgroup today that I found through a group called Mothers of the Woodlands. They were all very nice and we were invited to a family (including husbands) BBQ on Saturday. Phew! We didn't screw up our first impressions! As it turns out, it's a group full of geologists' wives. Ha!

In other news, Maddie is really starting to show more of the mailman's features. Just look at these eyes!!!

Finished bathroom!