Sidewalk Chalk

= Jasper's latest favorite "food"

What kind of a dog craves CHALK?!  We can't keep her away from it...she keeps snagging pieces and sneaking off into a corner of the yard to chow down.

20.5 months

And he pooped on the toilet!

I know, who gets excited about these things except mom's, right? 

He's young, but Bryton showed interest at about that age as well...I discouraged him due to my gigantic pregnancy belly and lack of energy, and he ended up potty-training himself when I finally "allowed" him to.  I decided that I would not discourage any attempts by Archer to use the toilet, and it's resulted in quite a few potty successes (with this being the first poop success).

HOWEVER, bragging on my little boy isn't really the point of this post.  The point of it is to warn on the dangers of the "little potty."  Archer was pretty proud of his success and stood up.  I picked him up to get him cleaned up and left the bathroom for about 10 seconds.  I came back to clean up the little potty...and the poop was mostly gone.  Jasper slunk guiltily away from the bathroom.  And now she is banished outside.

Was that TMI?  When I say she'll eat anything, I mean it!

A Boy and His Dog

As much as this dog drives me CRAZY, she is SO GOOD with Archer.  It *almost* makes up for the amount of stuff that she eats/destroys, and the amount of dog hair that I clean up on a daily (okay, twice daily) basis.  ALMOST.

Guess what Jasper ate...

A TEA BAG.

Seriously. What dog eats a TEA BAG off the counter?!

She baffles me.

Gray's Anatomy

Not the show (I think that's GrEy's Anatomy?), but the book.

Last night we went to Costco. Before we left, I made sure the downstairs bathroom door was closed and the dog was fed. If we leave the bathroom door open, she generally gets into the garbage and drags it all over the house (she isn't allowed upstairs so I don't have to worry about those bathrooms). Anyway, I generally make sure that the gate to the playroom is shut so she can't get in there and wreak havoc but apparently last night I forgot. Oops.

The boys had been perusing John's "Gray's Anatomy" book and had left it in the playroom. Jasper apparently spotted it and decided to have a little fun. As far as we can tell, that is the only thing that she actually destroyed, although she had plenty of fun otherwise as you can see! Keep in mind, she did all of this in approximately 1 hour...can you imagine what she could do with a longer amount of time?!

World's Most Tolerant Dog

She couldn't wait...

This is what is left of Preston's shoe, courtesy of Jasper left outside for about 15 minutes unattended.

Come on, Jasper, couldn't you have waited another month until summer was over?!