Addy & the Paci return

Addy has a habit of walking around with bones, toys and so forth in her mouth. She will carry it every where and for lengths at a time. We don't why she does this. Sydney has never do it. Addy has a trouble coming up the steps with whatever is in her mouth. So she can get up the 4 bottom steps fine but the top steps are a struggle. She will go up a couple of steps, abandon going up any further, turn go back down...repeat cycle. She will get frustrated and she will stand on those 2 steps and whine. At that point, I will take bone, toy, sock out of her mouth and she will follow upstairs where she claims said object upon reaching the top stairs from me.

She abandoned this a couple of months ago. She didn't carry anything around or if she did, she took it to a destination (pillow, bed, etc). But now, she is back to carrying things, in particular bones around. We give them the cow bones b/c the nylabones where tearing up their gums when the got sharp. So she carries around this bone in her mouth all over the house like a old man with a cigar! I think it has to be that she doesn't want Sydney to take it from her so she just carries it with her and, unless their is a knockdown, fight, Sydney isn't getting it.

I like it better when she is carrying toys around. Addy has a habit of dropping the bones at random which does not feel good when you are barefoot.