Happy New Year!

New Years Day brunch consisted of scrambled eggs, bacon, sautéed mushrooms and these homemade buns. It was a massive caloric undertaking for first official meal of 2014. I'm still full 

Cuddles

Holiday Activity #1

Lunch at Kuranga Nursery looking at native plants for the garden. 

Black ands White Stitches

 

 

Cocoa's First Xmas

Cocoa suffered from a pretty heinous infection in her first week with us, making two trips to the vet in as many days. We were pretty stressed about her. She bounced back though, and was in full puppy mode over Christmas.

She got to meet Jack and Ella's other dog, Charlie for  gift opening.... and they had a proper play and chase together. 

She's making friends well with Stitches, the cat, who tolerates her and seems to enjoy her company around the place. Here he is supervising her as she digs.

When he doesn't feel like playing, he hangs out on top of the BBQ.

Gingerbread

Ella and I undertook some intense construction work and made this:

Note the excellent and yummy licorice pathway to the front door, and the candy cane/marshmallow trees....both Ella's ideas.

Meet Cocoa Bean

Last Saturday, we increased our family by one. We'd been looking at rescue dog websites for a couple of weeks and had applied to adopt two puppies online.... with very little response from either agency. So, we called one, PetsHaven, and they invited us out to Sunbury to meet their puppies, some of them rescued from rural communities in Western Australia. We were greeted by a wriggling, jumping, licking mass of rollicking little bodies, and this one was the most chilled, just sitting down beside Scott and waiting to mooch a cuddle. We knew she was the one!

She's a good little girl, a 13 week old Staffordshire Terrier crossed with a bunch of other things..we're not sure yet. She's very smoochy, though. She can come on command, sit and is learning "stay" (not an easy one!).

Everyone has fallen in love with her, and all are very consistent with training and teaching her not to bite, (which is hard, because her little nibbles on your ear are cute...but won't be cute when she's older.)