Saturday, February 16, 2008

Teresa is here, she's weird...get used to it!

Hey all, Cara here to give you an update. Teresa can now say mom, dad, up, down and has added an onomatopoeia, a-choo to her repertoire. She can climb the couch all by herself as well as the stone thingy in front of the fire place. She does the hand motions to the song "Wheels on the Bus" and is a proficient nose picker. Ken also discovered today she likes cinnamon hearts. As for food, she still does not like meat, but will eat a whole banana in one sitting.

Teresa and Rowdy still have a dysfunctional relationship. Teresa will hug him, pet him and chase him all while squealing in delight. Rowdy will run away. One thing we did teach the two of them was how to play tug-of-war with Rowdy's rope toy. Teresa loves it and Rowdy will tolerate it for a short period of time, so some progress is being made in this area.

As for funny stories, we have two. The first takes place at the Hoffman's. I was there for book club and brought Teresa with me. They have a dog Rowdy's size and a bunny that happens to be 2 pounds. Well, Teresa saw the bunny, let out a terrified scream, and ran to Lindsay, the tallest point in the room at the time. It took her the rest of the evening to warm up to Oreo, and she wouldn't touch him, but she waved goodbye as we left. So apparently, 80 pound dogs are safe, but 2 pound bunnies are a terrifying concept.

The second story involves Teresa, small toys and our sub-woofer. Ken noticed she had managed to jam a green ball into the opening, and the two of them were very upset by this. Teresa because she could no longer play with her ball and Ken, who was ticked that it was there in the first place. After taking it apart Ken not only emancipated the ball, but a wood block and a mega block, much to Teresa's delight.

Well, that is all I could think of for now, on to the pictures!


Teresa and Ken playing


Hey Rowdy, you could totally get away with eating that.....


It's official, anything is a seat, and we have Wally and Candray to thank for this one.


That's it, I'm outta here!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is it a bad picture, or does Ken have a porn 'stache?

Love the bunny story... Maybe Teresa is part elephant, and it looked too much like a mouse. Better safe than sorry!

Cara said...

Ken does indeed have a porn 'stache. We should all be very proud, especially those who raised him:)

Anonymous said...

A porn 'stache? What is the younger generation coming to?

Dad

PS - I have never heard of a such a thing. Clearly, I have been watching the wrong shows.

PPS - Bunnies can be very dangerous. Did you not see Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

Ken said...

Porn 'stache? I prefer to think of it as my homage to red state values of ranching, farming and cool facial hair! Either that or it is ironic as it is an homage to bikers.

Dad, it is commonly referred to as a handle bar mustache, and I wear it as some students are revolted by it to a humorous level...

InsertMonikerHere said...

"well, _I_ find them scary" (Anya)

Maybe Buffy was doing a subtle homage to Python, but I doubt it... Whedon isn't _that_ good.

Clearly toddlers can just see the terrify truth.. run away! run away!

Jennifer P said...

Isaac is freaked out by Oreo as well (not as much as a sissy as T is). I've told him all of the nasty things Orea has done to me, so maybe that's why. On the other hand, he'd take Duggan home in an instant. I think next month Isaac and T should tag team Rowdy.