Tribute To Lucy

My dog of almost eight years passed yesterday. She was my first dog. I got her my last year of college and she has been with me ever since. She made the trip back and forth to Valdosta many times. She made it okay to come home to an empty apartment. I got her when she was five months old and she had been obviously abused by her previous owners. She was scared of people and hated to be alone. My mom always said she sounded like a baby crying when I wasn't' around. Because of her fear we bonded like no other human and animal. She did anything I asked and was the best dog.

Last Christmas we had a house fire that was caused by her pet heating pad. She was rescued by the EMT's and brought back to life. She struggled for a few months with health issues related to the fire. She was blind and toothless, but still she made do and went about life. She was great with Gracie and Ash. Her personality was always so easy going.

I feel really bad because I view her death as almost my fault. I left the door to the sun room open last week while gone to work. Lucy got into the house and somehow climbed behind the trashcan and ate rat poison. The poison wasn't even out for the rats. We guess that a rodent chewed through the package and left it open. There wasn't much we could do. It makes me really sad to think of everything she has been through in the past year.

Justice For Frogs

Gracie adores flags. I think the fascination started this summer after we celebrated July 4th. She knows where each and every American flag is in Warner Robins and question when they have them down. We have just grown used to saying "Yes, Gracie, we see the flag." Attached is a video of her saying her Pledge of Alligence. It is so cute to hear her try to say some of the words, and of course justice for all comes out justice for frogs. God Bless the Frogs...

Sweet Blessings

Gracie has always been camera shy at home and outgoing with photographers, but lately it has been right the opposite. She had a major melt down last weekend at my school. We got Christmas pictures of everyone except for Gracie. She even refused to take pictures at her school. At home though she has been right the opposite. She begs us to take pictures and videos of her doing things, that a few months ago I was begging to get on camera.

Sucker!

Well, we found out Ash loves candy as much as his sister and almost as much as his daddy. We have my mom to thank for that one! Gracie was eating one of the suckers she got for Halloween and Ash just attacked her for it. Gracie knew he wanted it so she lured him to it. After a taste of it he was doing everything in his power to get to her. It was so funny, but as you can see he was a happy man.

Our Ballerina

Gracie Lee has been taking ballet lessons at Mrs. Patricia's. She keeps telling me that she is now a "real" ballerina. Her first class she did not want to go and she cried in the car the whole way telling me that she was not going to ballet class. I promised her McDonalds afterwards. That only worked at getting her in the door. I had to sit with her and watch about half of the first class. She finally got out of my lap and started doing what the other girls were doing. Mrs. Patricia was great. I was able to sneak out. Since then she is excited and can't wait until Saturday for her class. I can't wait until December when they have their Christmas program. I am hoping that this will help her some with being so shy.

Halloween

We had a blast for Halloween this year. It seems like when Gracie turned three she also turned shy. She seems to have nothing to do with people she doesn't know. Thrusday night we went with my parents, Shay, and Eric to Centerville's Fall Festival. We could barely get Gracie to play any of the games. She was slightly motivated by the candy, but we couldn't get much out of her. She was of course a princess. She loves dressing up like a princess. I was going to have Ash be her prince charming before the kiss, in other words a frog, but that outfit never happened. Allie was a ladybug and Garrett was Batman. They were all so cute.