Bella actually will sit and wait for her food, huh? We have been trying to make her wait, because that's what we do with Buddy (at least so you can get your hand out of the way before they dive in!), but it has been very hard but we will continue to try now that we know you do it too. Buddy drools for his food too.
It's so funny, I thought just the opposite about the sleeping habits. Since I work all AM, Jeff usually takes Buddy for a short walk before he leaves for work (& he's been doing this will Bella too) then Buddy usually curls up and sleeps until lunch time when I can take him out for a little walk and play, etc., so I'm surprised to hear he is staying up. Bella on the other hand, the first 2 mornings did the same thing as Buddy, but for some reason today she has been up milling around. We have a bay window that overlooks the high school so she has discovered that #1, that's where the sun comes in and it's warm, and #2 that she can see kids who I am sure she thinks must be her kids. She obviously loves all of you very much.
I am about to take her on a little walk, and then we are going to the mall for some shopping and meet Jeff for dinner out somewhere. Oh, I forgot to tell you, at the training class, they were clipping toenails, so we had them clip Bella's. She wasn't crazy about it, but she did not cry or fight, so she will come home with fresh clipped nails, though Marlene said they really looked fine anyway.
Bella did great yesterday. The mall was a big test because of all the people, but she was wonderful. We ran into a dad and his daughter (maybe 2 years old) about 3 different times in the mall, who just fell in love with Bella. The little girl was so excited and Bella was very gentle with her, very sweet. They said they have been thinking about getting a dog and when they left they said that they were off to buy a dog! Ha.
Gosh if the story I told yesterday brought a tear to your eye, I better not tell you how she reacted when she saw a school bus go by (does a bus pick up your kids?)...she actually tried to follow it. Although she seems perfectly happy here, I guess some of those triggers that she has known for 9 months are pretty set in stone. I don't even like to think about the day we hand Buddy over to Doug or Mac.
A tip about Buddy, before you go in anywhere on your stops, try to get him to potty. We usually ask him to potty any time before he gets into or out of the car. He and Bella seem to be on the same schedule as far as that goes, so if he goes right away in the morning, then he may or may not go a little bit at noon, and then you should be good until 5:00 or so with little potty breaks along the way. He'll also kind of alert you if you are in a building very subtlely, he just starts acting a little weird and nervous. He dearly loves to go for a ride and loves people, so he'll be fine.
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