cheeseburgers and pappy

zella and i have been cheeseburger-ing! she is having allot of fun lately with the camera. she has shown allot of interest in taking photos. so i have been giving her the camera and letting her take pictures.
and then i get this when she is done.
we pulled out the wii fit last night and zella wanted to play with us. we were doing our yoga and she was playing along. she looks so cute when she is playing.
and the big news around our house is the fact that a little miss someone has begun to use the potty. she used it on Sunday and we all jumped around and were telling her how proud we were of her and that she is such a big girl. we then ran up to target, and got her a big little pet shop club house. we let her pick out it out. we grabbed a few more toys and charlie set up a "treasure box". we put the rest of the new toys in it and told her she could pick out a new treasure each time she sits on the potty. but she can't open it unless she does her business on the potty. she is starting to get the hang of it. we started calling people when she does it and so far everyone we have called has had the best reaction. we have called grammy, pappy, grandma, aunt kim, emma, kristin... i hope this will last and that we can wear big girl panties!!!

we went to my parents yesterday. my dad had a pretty good day. zella and i have been going by the gas station by my parents house, and grab a soda for my dad(caffeine free diet coke, and everytime he tells me how much he loves the fact we think of him and grab him a soda, and that it tastes sooo good) and a lolly pop for zella. we have been doing this for months now and she always reminds me to stop. there was only a few times yesterday that my dad seemed confussed. one of the kittens, cinders, has had a hard time healing from when she got declawed. and when we first got there, my dad was telling me how concerned he was for her. she doesn't put any weight on it and walks on her other 3 legs. i asked him if mom knew about this, and he thought she did, but he was still very concerned. so i called my mom, got her voice mail, left a message. a few minutes later, she called me back and she told me that she has been talking to the vet for the last 2 days and that cinders was going to be ok and that the vet gave her a longer prescription for her pain meds. my mom had already been concerned and that dad was correct about her knowing about it. so fast forward about an hour. dad asked "was mom just here for a few minutes"? and i thought about it for a min. and then remembered that we had talked to her. so i told him that we had just talked to her on the phone. and that might be why he thought she was there. that was good enough for him. and a little later i asked where cinders was and he told me that she was upstairs with mom. i said that mom was still at work. and he looked puzzled for a brief min. and then accepted my response. i never want to hurt my dad, or make him look or feel silly for asking his questions. so most of the time i just go with what ever he says. i don't want to argue with him, or challenge what he says. i love my dad dearly and watching this breaks my heart. but i am thankful that i get to spend as much time with him as i do.
more cheeseburgers
and she is now finished.
i love this photo. she was having fun with her hat. and we had been taking pictures for a while...
which is what i got when i still wanted to take more pictures and she was finished. don't worry, she didn't stay sad for long. i gave her a candy pumpkin (think candy corn)and everything was good with her. i still love this picture.

jill b