Welcome Baby Will!

Big congratulations to my friend E and her husband K on the birth of their beautiful boy, William Blake! He's insanely adorable with long fingers and toes and I think he looks exactly like E.

 

Welcome to the world Will. You have a great mommy and daddy and everyone is so happy you're here!

Congratulations to My Pony

Yesterday, my bestest friend Pony, got offered a full time position at one of his dream companies! I am so stinkin' proud of him for everything that he's accomplished that I have to post about it. He works in a field where you have to study for interviews and take complicated interview tests and he totally rocked his interviewer's socks off.

Pony, congratulations for everything you have accomplished. I wish E and I could celebrate with you in person now but we'll have to wait till Thanksgiving. We love you!

My Dog is Cuter Than Your Baby

Keeping warm sleeping on her daddy's pillows

 It has been pretty cold around here lately!  Much colder than I'm used to, living in Los Angeles where the sun is supposed to shine all year and so we can do to the beach everyday. I guess it really must be winter!

Picking out her Hanukkah presents

 In the spirit of all this cold weather, I picked up a sweater for Milou, along with a bursting bag of toys, at the Petco Halloween clearance. I thought I'd get some cute photos of her in it and she could wear it when we go walking at night since her fur still hasn't all grown back from her flea problem. While I expected to love the black and white stripes and friendly skull motif, I was definitely not prepared for how much she was going to love it! 

Awesome skullie sweater

 When you think about a dog wearing clothes, you picture a nearly hairless little chihuahua wrapped in a sweater to protect it from freezing to death inside someone's handbag. Or at least I do. What you don't picture is a long coated German Shepherd Dog, a strong working dog equipped with a thick coat to withstand freezing cold temperatures.  I guess Milou, who has never been in any weather cold than say, 60 degrees? never got the memo about her impressive lineage. She was thrilled with her sweater, snuggling into it and stretching out luxuriously across the bed. When the house got really chilly, she took one of our fleece blankets down to her bed with her for an extra layer of warmth.

Snuggling with her fleece blankie and her stuffed alien "Mars"

She probably doesn't need her sweater, but considering how cute she looks in it, E and I are happy to keep spoiling her. For now she's our only baby and I think she should get to enjoy it while it lasts.

New Haircut!

Not the best photos but here they are! I've slept on it and brushed it straight so it's normally not so flat and messy. It's a pretty big change but it was turning into an icky disaster and it was time for it to go!