Backyard Fun With Belle-

This picture made me laugh- who would have thought you have to worry about the dog blinking in the picture!

Belle is almost 4 months now, we got her at a whopping 8 pounds, and now she is up to almost 13 pounds. Her fur was mostly black and white with a tiny light brown, but her color has started changing and the black is turning to light brown on her head and above her legs.

She is mostly a great puppy, she can sit, she is trained to stay on the tile, and loves being outside all day long.

The rough parts of having her are the vet bills. She has had an ear infection, and staph infection (caused from allergies), adding those bills onto the shots, flea/tick control, and heart worm medicine, and getting spayed- it's a lot of money!

But, the money is well worth it! My kids LOVE her! They are always concerned for her, they have no issues taking care of her, and playing with her. I keep waiting for the novelty to wear off, but it still hasn't. She tries to chew shoes, she has gotten a few socks. She does well to not potty in the house- unless it's rainy outside and the she's had a few.

But over all still a great little pet.

Carly and Baylee were having so much fun with her tonight. Carly loves to kick the soccer balls and Belle goes crazy. Baylee likes to bribe her with treats and food to get her to sit and shake. She has done shake a few times, but we can't tell if it's a coincident that she lifts her paw..

Here is Belle's dog run. Yes, it is so cute, and no, she doesn't like it! We really only put her in there if there are a lot of kids in the back yard and it's to chaotic for her.

Belle does this army crawl all the time. She thinks she's sneaky and we can't see her trying to get something. Also, since she has had allergies she crawls all over the yard like this the scratch her belly.

Belle drags her bed ALL OVER THE PLACE! She actually has two now. She usually keeps one over by the fence to lay on and the neighbors dog lays next to the fence on their side. He and Belle try to play through the fence. The other bed gets moved from the corner by the back door, to the dog house, to the monkey bar area by the swing set.

Baylee loves to decorate Belle's dog house with chalk- she calls it beautiful.

Carly is constantly tumbling in the back yard- She was doing her kick over when Belle decided to help her over.:)