After a couple weeks at my new home, I went back to visit  my canine mom

  and she seemed to  remember me.      My Dad didn't

seem to care that I was visiting though. So after a while I just played

 in the grass until we got back in the truck and went home.

Soon there was more nice cold snow for me to play in    and I wanted

 to stay out in it all the time   but when Mom or Dad call

me   they expect me to come right away. Sometimes I try to sneak

 away though and hide in the nice green pines. But they keep after

 me to come . Then we have to go up 3 big steps and wait for

 that door to open again.  But I have fun indoors too. One day

 my Mom brought in this brand new,  big red and striped bed and told

me it is all mine. I had a lot of fun jumping on it that day.

Sometimes I act really grown up but other times I just can't help

 myself and am such a little terror but everybody still  loves me because

 I am just so adorable. To keep me looking cute and clean though,

 I have to get in the bathtub a lot and have baths. Then my Mom uses that

 wind making thing that blows hot air I don't much  like. Mom likes to take

 pictures of me with my   fluffy top   after my

 blow dry, while   I am on my grooming table. So I just pose

nicely for a while until I have  had enough and then I get to play

 again.. One day my Mom gave me this  big bone and it tasted so

 good! I kept chewing on it all the time until one  day it disappeared. Then Mom

 gave my a new one to chew on.

We soon had more snow   and I went out   to play in it.

  My favorite spot is out on the lake where I can

 tell the water  is under the ice. I love to dig holes and try to

 get to the  water. I pounce on the snow and dig hard   but

 just never find the water that I know is under all that snow and ice.  

 So when I find a stick then it's time to run  again.

It snowed more & I was so happy. and wanted to go play in it. I am now

 15 weeks old and over 30 pounds.   People say that I am starting to

 look like a Newf.  I am getting floppy jowls and sometimes make funny faces with them. I totally love  the cold weather we've been

 having.    It's been around 0 degrees Fahrenheit with howling winds

 coming off the lake in gusts of 30  miles per hour or more. I just want to run

 around and play in it    But my Mom & Dad hide behind the door from

 the wind with me on a long  leash and make me come out of the cold as soon

 as I go potty.    I know that some day I am going to follow those

 voices that are calling me from the winds that howl on moonlit

 nights.....

 he let me sit on his stool. I felt like a big shot up there and could look all

around. It's fun there and I like going to work.

 Then when we were ready to go home, Dad took me outside around the

 building to go potty and I found a funny looking creature with a long nose.

It made funny noises at me and I knew it was not the same as my "Kitty" at

 home. I stood my ground nose to nose with it, while I growled at it  with my

 hair standing on end all over my body making myself look big so the scary

 looking creature wouldn't  come any closer and hurt my Dad or me. After Dad

 made me back off, he told me  he was so proud of me for protecting him from

 that thing that he called an opossum. Too bad my Mom wasn't there with her

 camera....

Growing Pains

Yesterday was my 16 week old birthday. Mom & Dad say I'm growing like a

 weed. I  know weeds are fun to pull out of the  ground, but how could I be 

 growing like one? Woof, woof, woof!

Today after I had a bath and a blow dry I went to the doctor and I weighed 35

 pounds. When the doctor came in the room to see me, I got all excited to see her, but then

 she and her assistant put me on that  skinny table and I started to remember my last visit

when they tried to trick me by giving me a cookie while they pricked me with a needle

and I stopped chewing my cookie. So I got scared and didn't eat the cookie this time,

 but  they still stuck a needle in me 2 times. I got so mad and growled and I got madder

 when they would not stop and they held me so hard that I could not even bite them when I

 tried. So I growled really really hard, but could not get away. Then when they took the

 needles away, the  doctor tried to sweet talk me, but I was not very happy with her.

Finally, they let me get off the table and then I let the doctor pet me and gave her a quick

 paw.  Boy was I glad to get out of that room!

The Beach

I am getting to be a big girl now and got to go to the beach today..

I have gone to the ocean before,  when I was little and it was just a long distance of water

 with big waves. This time, I went to a little salt water beach, with little waves  

 that I barked at for a while, until I  decided to venture in and catch some of that slimy green

 stuff..  I tasted the water and it was weird. So I tried it again, but it was not very good.

When I wandered around in the sand,  I found a little hole  and started digging.

 I stuck my nose in it and kept digging and digging. Then I ran back in the water 

 for a quick rinse before digging some more and some more. The hole kept

 filling in as fast as I could dig  and my feet were sinking deeper and deeper. 

 I stuck my tongue out to taste the sand and it was grrrrrritty, woof. I thought about rinsing

 off again but I was  having sooooooo much fun digging.

Then all of a sudden I ran like the dickens  and grabbed some grass.

I tried to shake off some sand then Mom  told me I had to rinse off again. I didn't

 want to leave so Mom took me  over to the grass for a while

  & let me play for a while in the sun. I wandered around for a bit

  looking for something to  get into until Woof! At last 

   I found a stick.  

Shrinking Playmates

I miss having snow every where, but its fun to play in the leaves with Pepper.

I just wish that Mom & Dad would let me run loose more like   Pepper

 

but they want me to always come when called and sometimes when I am running like the

 wind and grabbing onto Pepper.

As Sophie Bear Grows