Christmas with Rosie - part lll

Well, Christmas is over and Rosie must have been good.  Santa brought her a stocking full of goodies and she got gifts from all of her friends. She had a great Christmas morning.  Of course she had the undivided attention of Isabel, our three year old granddaughter.  Isabel would not even open her gifts because she wanted to hold and play with Rosie instead.  Rosie is very fortunate to have someone who only wants her. 
I told Isabel's mom and dad that she needed a puppy for Christmas, but they didn't agree.

With six grandchildren in the house, you can imagine that there would be lots of wrapping paper once all the gifts are open.  'Lots' would be an understatement.

This is Rosie with our other two princesses, Alex and Isabel. Rosie is not a fan of the paper but it was a chance she had to take to get the attention she wanted from the girls.

We did manage to get a picture of Rosie with us.  This was taken before everyone got here. She is our little sweetie that morning.

Merry 1st Christmas to Rosie.  She helped to make our morning quite enjoyable.  

I am sure if Rosie could talk, she would wish you all a Merry Christmas too.

I love my Rosie.

Christmas with Rosie - part ll

Now that Rosie has gotten past the Christmas tree mess and the bone hiding in the tree skirt, she has had to deal with Christmas baking.  She loves nothing more than standing with one of us in the kitchen waiting for a handout, crumbs dropped on the floor, lick the dishwasher door...anything that has food flavor. Well, today, my daughter, Paige and grand kids, Mackenzie and Alex came over to help with the Christmas baking. Rosie gets excited enough when they come over and today was no different.  We baked all day along and all day long Rosie was at our feet. Just waiting for a morsel of something to hit the floor. We did pretty good getting things up before she got them.  I really don't like her eating junky stuff, (although we all eat plenty of it).  She really did just stand around all day.  I would think that she would be conked out by now but she isn't. I think she is in the kitchen right now scavenging.

I think I will go get her a bone to chew on.

Stay tuned for Part lll...

I love my Rosie...scavenging and all.

Christmas with Rosie...part 1

Well, it is our first Christmas with a pup in the house in many, many years.  Rosie hasn't cared anything about the tree. It is the mess that she has to keep walking around that is freaking her out.  We have finally gotten most of it out of her way, though.  The only thing about the tree that interested Rosie, at first, is the tree skirt.  It is one that I quilted years ago and have used ever since.  It is like all tree skirts, pretty, but you can't see it once the gifts are under the tree.  Rosie's main attraction to the tree skirt is burying her fake bone.  She has this innate need to hide these bones and walks around the house with one in her mouth and whines the distressed out whine of not knowing what to do.  She will look at us and we will take the bone and hide it under a blanket or a pillow or our leg and she is perfectly fine with that. But with the tree skirt, she just goes under the tree and scratches the skirt until she finds just the right spot to put her bone.

But alas, with presents under the tree, the skirt is no longer available. This presents the next problem, and it doesn't have to do with the bone.  The operative word here is 'presents'.  She pretends to not be interested in them, but like most things in our house that she can reach, as soon as we are out of the room they suddenly become interesting, alluring and worthy of chewing on or shredding or at least investigating.  So we have decided to become pro-active in this area.  We bought a small white picket fence, you know, the kind that you stick in the ground around a flower bed. We trimmed off the part that goes in the ground and put hinges to hook them together. It actually makes a nice little decoration around our tree and Rosie seems oblivious to it.  So for now, the presents are safe.  I will keep you posted on any incidences that occur:)

Stay tuned for Christmas with Rosie - Part II

I love my Rosie, especially at Christmas time.