Bella update 4/6/11

Bella - my adorable almost-9-month-old puppy recently got a brand new toy from the pet store. *just as a side note, Bella goes through toys like crazy. We restrict her on only 1 new toy a month because she chews them up so fast. Currently, she is not allowed to have any more rope toys or stuffed toys. Strings and stuffing just end up all over the house. Plus, she can chew threw them in like a few hours - we need toys that will last at least a week or so.*  Back to the story, Bella had been playing with her new toy. She is a little rough with it, she bites it, chews on it, tosses it up in the air, throws it on the floor, tackles it - its pretty adorable. The kitty - Raja - was laying on the couch watching her so Bella came over and sat down in front of her and placed the toy on the couch. She then took her noise and nudged it over to Raja like "Here you can play with it too!" I thought it was the sweetest thing in the world. Raja, of course, being the snotty cat that she is was like "Why the crap are giving this to me?" and just ignored her. 

I hug a pillow when I sleep. Alot of nights I wake up with the pillow on the floor - most likely Reub tosses it during the night. I woke up in the middle of the night and noticed my pillow was on the floor, so I went to grab it and I saw that Bella was using it. She had her body laying under our bed like she usually does, but her head was on the pillow next to the bed. It was so adorable. I, of course, could not disturb such cuteness, so I let her sleep the rest of the night like that.

Reuben and I recently raked/cleaned out our yard. It took FOREVER. Like seriously, over 12 hours. We have a lot of pine straw in our yard, so it was a lot of HARD raking.

The backyard... We had like 20 "leaf piles"

We got so tired out that I actually made myself sick from the work. While we were raking and cleaning, Bella would sabatage our progress by taking sticks and whatever else she could find out of our leaf piles. She almost seemed offened that we were taking away her toys. We think she's cute so we didn't yell too much.

LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF BAGS....

It took 36 of the 50 gallon heavy duty bags to fill our yard. And we didn't even rake on one side of our house... WOWOWOW!

It was storming a few nights ago really bad. Raining and thunder and lightening. This caused a lot of debris in our back yard. Bella's favorite chew toys are sticks and pine cones. After the storm there were "toys" AKA "sticks" all over our back yard. I took her out to go to the bathroom and it was like a kid on Christmas morning. She would run to one stick put it in her mouth then she'd see another stick run to that one, drop the other stick out of her mouth, put the new stick in her mouth. She did that like 10 times. Then she found this special stick that was like a small tree branch - it still had leaves on it. She was really excited about that one. Needless to say that one didn't last very long, I think by the time I had drank my morning coffee she had chewed it to pieces.