Addy Turns Two

Addy turned two this month. It is really hard to believe....that she is only two. Granted she still looks and acts like a puppy. But it seems we have always had her. I remember so clearly the day we got Sydney and all of the nights I spent up with her. But Addy was such a good puppy that we transitioned right along.

I guess I am paying for it now. Ever since Addy turned two, she has been wild. So much energy. As the weather gets better, we have started our walks again. We will walk two miles, leaving them both panting. Give Addy 5 minutes and she is chasing Sydney around the house. She has been getting into everything and not listening. I really hope these 'terrible two's' don't last.

My baby girl is two. Whenever I need a cuddle buddy, she is always ready to hope in my lap. She is ever faithful because she follows me everywhere I go. And if I don't say 'hi' to her when I come home, she lets me know it. She wakes me up every morning and tells me good night on most evenings. I just don't know what I would do without her.

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.

Merry Christmas from Sydney & Addy

Sydney and Addy wish everyone a very Merry Christmas with joy and peace in the upcoming year. Here is their annual Christmas photos with Santa (which were definitely more troublesome this year)!

Merry Christmas!



...and from Ella too.

Sydney and Addy - The New Morning Routine

Sydney and Addy are morning dogs. I am not. Every morning, Addy starts waking me at 5 am with 'the paw'. I tell her to go lay back down on her pillow and she goes...but 15 minutes later I get 'the paw'. This goes on until my alarm goes off at 6:15.

The weekends are a completely different story. I would rather NOT get up at 5 or 6 or even 7 am on the weekends. So the girls and I have started the following:

I get the paw around 5 am.
I send Addy back to her pillow.
Sydney starts whining at me around 6:30 - 6:45.
I get up and feed them and let them out.
Then we go lay down on the lover sofa and ottoman until I finally get up.

Let me explain. I pull the ottoman flush with the lover sofa, in the middle of the sofa. I curl up with legs out on the ottoman with my head on the arm rest of the lover sofa. Addy crawls right next to me so her head body is on the lover sofa and head in my lap. Sydney crawls up next to Addy with body half on the lover sofa and half on the ottoman with her head on my calves.

Oddly enough, we can sleep a couple of hours like that until the weight of Sydney's head on my legs wake me up.

No wonder, I am always tired...

Sydney and Addy are still alive

Sorry it has been so long since the Adventures of Sydney and Addy had been up and running. They definitely have had stories to tell and I promise to start telling stories again. New job & the holidays and kept the myself and the girls very busy. The Adventures of Sydney and Addy are still alive and kicking and will hopefully return with more regularity.

Bush's Dog Bites Reporter

Thank goodness the girls have never bitten anyone. I had a friend whose dog bit a house guest and had to fend off a lawsuit.

Election Results are in!

It is a dead-heat.

The first Adventures of Sydney & Addy 'Paw the Election' is in and it is a tie. One vote for Obama and one vote for McCain with a 0 plus/minus margin of error. There was an attempt at voter fraud by Addy trying to cast 2 paws but was caught by the election judge.

The Paw the Election was conducted in the following manor:

A picture of Obama was on the floor on the left and McCain was on the floor on the right (for obvious reasons). The dogs were sitting at a stay. Once I yelled, "VOTE", they proceeded to cast their paw. Thus resulting in a tie.

Here is how the vote count:
Sydney - Obama
Addy - McCain

Disclaimer: Results Sydney stands on my left and Addy stands on my right so that might be why the 'paw' went the way it did.

So, we will have to wait to see the results later tonight!!!

No treats were used in the 'paw' process.