Happy Birthday Harley Girl! 12/1/2009

My mom made a calendar like this when I was young. We waited anxiously for our turn to draw out of the calendar each day-with two brothers and one sister, it seemed to take FOREVER to get back to my turn. It was the highlight of our December every year. When my mom made the us our own advent calendar last year, I was beyond excited! I love that the tradition has continued onto my kids (they say it takes forever to get back to their turn too!) and with a little guilt I might get her to spend another 978 hours making two more calendars for me so that each of my kids will have one when they have kids! The drawing order this year is Bailia, Koda, then Jdog!



Wow, I can't believe it is the first day of December already! I forgot it was Harley's birthday until this evening when I flipped one of my calendars to December! Bailia had bought her a pack of jerky treats last week, and Jdog brought home a few pieces of cake from school that Mrs. P. had made! It was meant to be! Bailia stuck two jerky treats in the cake (since she is two today) and we made her sit in front of the cake while we sang to her. You can see from the picture that our singing meant NOTHING to her. She SWALLOWED the cake whole.
Having Harley in the family has been the biggest pain in my...well if you own a dog you know how it is. But we wouldn't trade her (most days) for anything! She is SO good with the kids, especially Koda. She love to wrestle with him, but refuses to do so without her toy in her mouth, so that she doesn't accidentally bite him! With Adam she doesn't get her toy, she knows he is a tough guy. She understands everything we say-we can't even spell run anymore without her getting all excited to go. I even count if she is in trouble (like I do with my kids) FIVE, FOUR, THREE-I rarely make it to two before she does what she is supposed to do. Happy Birthday H-digity! We hope you have a great day!