Potty Training...

Avery is a little more than a month in and doing alright. She has great days and some really bad days. I am still having to ask her every couple hours as a reminder. She will occasionally tell me she has to go but it is usually when she has already started to go. Cleaning poop out of panties is not fun and neither are public accidents. Luckily, we have been prepared for everything so far. We are holding off on the night training for now and she sleeps in a pull-up. She is just in our bed too often and I don't want our nice mattress pee peed on ;). She also has this annoying habit of taking all of her toys potty with her and they all must pee first. Sometimes twice. It is really annoying and makes what should be a two minute trip to the toilet last 20 minutes.
I will deal with the occasional poopy panties and ridiculous bathroom antics to be free of the diaper bill!

more of our Juneau adventure

Avery riding Daddy's shoulders!

It has been chilly for the past week or so. Like single digit chilly. The plus side is that the sun has been shining bright and the downside is that it has been downright frigid. I know I can't complain, we could be in the Anchorage area or Fairbanks, but it is still cold and my poor hands are in constant need of lotion. It was finally cold enough for the lakes to freeze. So today we bundled up and headed to Mendenhall Glacier. There were dozens of people out on the frozen lake. We saw everything from ice skaters, skiers, people admiring the glacier ice, dogs having a blast and we even saw a guy on his bike ride right past us on the ice (he had studs of course).

Wilson even found his first porcupine, luckily it was only like 6 quills in his chin and Sam was able to pull them out. He seriously was only out of the car for 5 minutes and he found himself one. I am just glad he didn't cover himself in quills! Sam pulled them out before I could even snap a picture of this first for Mr. Wilson. Dang! Tasha and Wilson were sissies and refused to walk on the ice. They just ran up and down the shore the entire time worried about us. I thought maybe they'd see the other dogs on the ice and get with the program, but no.

Poor Wilson trying to walk on the ice. He didn't make it very far :(



I am always a little nervous walking on ice, but I knew it was safe and Avery did excellent walking on it. Hopefully, her progress on ice skates will be just as good. She knew to march her little marches when she got a little unstable and I even saw her fall and get up the way they teach them at ice skating lessons! The sun is still really low in the sky so it is in your eyes when you take pictures so she is squinting in almost every photo or not looking at all.


Avery didn't want to come off the ice.