We'll start with Maddox's teeth. I couldn't catch them very well with her smile and laugh, but she's cute anyway.
So I found them myself (which for some reason she thought was quite funny). She's actually got 6 right now, 3 on top and 3 on bottom. The newest one on bottom is just peeking out and you can't see here. She's about to get another top one too. It's starting to change her smile! No teeth for such a long time!
Friday we spent some time outside where Maddox could spend hours playing along the edge of any garden. She loves to pick up a piece of mulch, push the other mulch around with it and move dirt.
Saturday morning Jeremy and I worked it out so that we both had a Saturday off! I don't know if that has happened since I was on maternity leave. It was so nice! Jeremy ran the Hospice Hope 10k. Here he is on the last homestretch.
Here's how he felt on the last homestretch. He only did 1 training run beyond about 4 miles so adding another 2 didn't feel too great.
He finished 6th overall and 2nd in his age group. His award was a tin of Moravian cookies and a paper with his place and race info on it. At least we can eat this award.
Right after that we went over to Hanes Park for a dog fundraiser benefiting a shelter here. They had the Triad's Top Dog Event which involved 1,2 and/or 3 events. We did all three for the fun of it. It was Jessi's (and my) debut of performing in "events". Mind you, the events were musical hoops (like musical chairs), "leave it" hot dog event (stay in a sit/stay and don't eat the hot dog placed in front of you, waved in front of you and teased with), and a mini agility course (a jump, weave through cones, and teeter-totter). We had lots of fun!
So I found them myself (which for some reason she thought was quite funny). She's actually got 6 right now, 3 on top and 3 on bottom. The newest one on bottom is just peeking out and you can't see here. She's about to get another top one too. It's starting to change her smile! No teeth for such a long time!
Friday we spent some time outside where Maddox could spend hours playing along the edge of any garden. She loves to pick up a piece of mulch, push the other mulch around with it and move dirt.
Saturday morning Jeremy and I worked it out so that we both had a Saturday off! I don't know if that has happened since I was on maternity leave. It was so nice! Jeremy ran the Hospice Hope 10k. Here he is on the last homestretch.
Here's how he felt on the last homestretch. He only did 1 training run beyond about 4 miles so adding another 2 didn't feel too great.
He finished 6th overall and 2nd in his age group. His award was a tin of Moravian cookies and a paper with his place and race info on it. At least we can eat this award.
Right after that we went over to Hanes Park for a dog fundraiser benefiting a shelter here. They had the Triad's Top Dog Event which involved 1,2 and/or 3 events. We did all three for the fun of it. It was Jessi's (and my) debut of performing in "events". Mind you, the events were musical hoops (like musical chairs), "leave it" hot dog event (stay in a sit/stay and don't eat the hot dog placed in front of you, waved in front of you and teased with), and a mini agility course (a jump, weave through cones, and teeter-totter). We had lots of fun!Here we are going around the circle for musical hoops.
And here she is sitting in her hoops when the music went off. Dogs had to sit and have at least 2 feet in the hoop. We finished 2nd in this event.
Jeremy didn't watch the hot dog event so no pics but Jessi didn't budge her rear, stayed in a sit, and never even looked at the hot dog. Neither did a couple other dogs (although they layed down, no fair) so we tied for 1st in that event.
And here she is sitting in her hoops when the music went off. Dogs had to sit and have at least 2 feet in the hoop. We finished 2nd in this event.
Jeremy didn't watch the hot dog event so no pics but Jessi didn't budge her rear, stayed in a sit, and never even looked at the hot dog. Neither did a couple other dogs (although they layed down, no fair) so we tied for 1st in that event.Here are Jessi and I on the agility course. I so wish I'd pushed her harder and we could have won, at least I'm pretty sure. I just wasn't sure if going faster would cause her or I to make a mistake and get a 10 second penalty. Oh well, 2nd for this event too is pretty good for our first time.
We had a really good time doing these events and I really wish I could do agility with Jessi. But unfortunately it's not cheap. I'd love to have agility stuff in my own yard and just teach her and do it for fun, but I don't think it would look very nice in our yard nor is the equipment cheap. Maybe someday. She is VERY good at it and listens SO well and learns SO quickly. Someday when we have a bigger yard with an area we can donate to an agility course . . .
And now it's Sunday: Maddox has somehow learned to play basketball. It think she picked it up by watching Jeremy and the other neighborhood kids play in our driveway. I really only showed her once or twice what you're supposed to do with the ball and now she won't quit. You'll see in the video that she is VERY pleased about this new activity too!
She was sort of a strange, very happy girl on Sunday. Her other new activity is trying to play her piano with her foot. She'd try to lift it up there and the keys wouldn't play so she'd grab her ankle and try to pound her foot on the keyboard, usually resulting in rolling backward onto her back. It was so funny!
She was also very into acting like a dog. We got some dog new dog treats at the dog event yesterday so she was feeding them to Jessi, then she'd try to put one in her mouth just to carry around. I finally took all the treats away so she resorted to an empty Nerds box. She'd just carry it around in her mouth like a dog with her bone. Strange kid today.
Sunday afternoon's activities: (during nap time or M might have ended up tie-dyed too!)
Video of M playing basketball.
She was sort of a strange, very happy girl on Sunday. Her other new activity is trying to play her piano with her foot. She'd try to lift it up there and the keys wouldn't play so she'd grab her ankle and try to pound her foot on the keyboard, usually resulting in rolling backward onto her back. It was so funny!
She was also very into acting like a dog. We got some dog new dog treats at the dog event yesterday so she was feeding them to Jessi, then she'd try to put one in her mouth just to carry around. I finally took all the treats away so she resorted to an empty Nerds box. She'd just carry it around in her mouth like a dog with her bone. Strange kid today.
Sunday afternoon's activities: (during nap time or M might have ended up tie-dyed too!)Video of M playing basketball.Video of M trying to play the piano with her foot. I didn't take this video until she had almost grown tired of trying so it's more of me trying to get her to do it again rather than what she was doing 5 minutes earlier by herself. But you'll get the idea.
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