week of Jan. 25

we decided to turn our 'pee log book' into more of a timetable so that we could start to see the patterns/ time of day of when Ildi needs to 'do her business'. There is definitely a pattern and this helps us relax a little on the constant trips outside! on average, she's doing 12 pees and 7 poops a day! a few accidents inside this week, but really we can only blame ourselves - it's hard to remember that we've only had her 2 weeks.

We've been trying to train Ildi to ring a bell that we've hung off the backdoor. To train her, we ring the bell ourselves every time we go out with her. And every once in a while she sits at the door when she has to go - seems like great progress already!

weight is up to 13.5lbs - still seems like a slow gain?

we've also been starting to play fetch with her. she now knows: sit, lie down, sit-stay, come.

I also took her to my parents house for an evening play session with their 2 big dogs. At first she was nervous meeting them, but then warmed up to the dogs and was just running everywhere once in side the house. She loved their toys and wanted to always play with the dogs - while they were playing more of a policeman role and following her everywhere as if to say 'i have my eye on you, don't do anything you shouldn't do'.

Ildi's photo shoot

Ildi weighs in at 13lbs this morning - she's gained a whopping .5lbs in 3 days, is that normal?

We've been teaching her lots already - she pretty much knows how to sit, we teach her the word and a hand command (we use a clicker to aid the teaching process). We're attempting lie down. We also playing fetch (if you can call it fetch this early on :)
and 1 big step in our minds is that she played on her own with one of her toys for the first time!

had 1 accident inside the house today and we've noticed that she no longer does her business 18 times/ day - thank god! we're down to 12; but keep in mind that we're both home during the day so she doesn't stay locked in her kennel for super long periods of time.

and I've posted some pics from a 'photo shoot'. Chad's a photographer so I think we're lucky to have professional quality pictures anytime we want them!