My Big Girl and babysitting the beast dog!

So I realize that the title of this is a little strannge.  But the reason is that it's what is on my mind. My daughter Julia is now full time walking, and if not then close enough to it.  She still enjoys crawling at times, but she is a walker now.  She will even walk in the store for us, in fact she prefers to walk.  Through this I have learned that not only am I horribly out of shape, my daughter is a sneaky little stinker.  She is still one of the best behaved kids around, but she likes to push the boundaries of what she can do.  She will look right at me and do it anyway when I have told her no!!  What a little turd! She is learning alot more what she wants and doesn't want.  At the store today, we were buying her a toy.  We would hand her different ones in turn and she would shake her head no if she didn't like it.  So funny! We ended up with a little people tub toy, and finally a turtle tub toy holder.  Hers over flow the basket, she has a few tubbies!  She looked at some baseballs and said "ball", but she already had a toy, so no go of course.  She kept trying to say that the toy was broken, because the water wheel moves on the toy.  So I had to explain that it is supposed to turn just like the big one on her water table.  She seemed to accept that as a viable explanation.  Then she kept pointing at the pictures of the bubbles on the box and telling me "bubbles"!  She loves bubbles!  When she grew tired of us waiting to be helped at the sporting goods counter, she told me "bye bye"!  Meaning she was wanting to get on the move.  It's amazing how much she learns and changes each day.  I am so proud of her, I just can't believe she is walking now.  What am I going to do, she is growing so fast.  Well if all goes well then hopefully soon we can beging trying for our second child.  I hope we can, I feel that I am really ready now.  So now on to the other subject in my blog, the beast dog!  A small red wiener dog that we are watching for our nieghbors and really good friends Chuck and Erick, while they are on a vacay in D.C..  He has to either be in his big crate or his bed crate when he is inside, unless you are watching him like a hawk.  He pees and poops with out warning.  He is also an excited or scared pee'er like Joey.  His name is Jacob, but I prefer to call him Devil Dog or The Beast.  Or other names that perhaps I won't mention here.  He whines and cries alot.  And he feels it's perfectly fine to begin barking and howling at 5 a.m.  I wanted to kill him this morning.  But we gave him a raw hide chewy tonight and he has been silent ever since.  Hopefully this is the trick.  Cause I have him till Friday.  But he is chubby little butter ball.  If he would sit still long enough I would love to let him snuggle on my lap.  But he is a busy little dog.  I even gave him a bath tonight.  It's a little harder to do him then it is Joey.  Jo is smaller and easier to handle.  But I did get the job done.  So back to Julia for a second, tonight is her second night with out a binkie!  We kinda had to break her of it cause she only had one left and it has a little hole in it now and I can't let her have it.  So she just had to be broke of it cold turkey.  She has done great!  I am so proud of her.  So let's see now what.  Well I am doing my best to keep things picked up and cleaned up around my house cause we are moving next month.  I am actually quite happy to leaveing this house, but I hate moving and I hate packing. The new place belongs to our friends the Fockens, Darrin took a job in Chicago so they needed to rent out their house.  We as luck would have it were looking for somewhere to go.  This house is ok, but there is no storage really, and our landlord is always here.  I mean always!  She is really irritating.  She goes around on her little tractor and fluffs all the loose dirt around the property.  So there is no top soil left because we live in a very windy place.  The dirt and dust comes into the house and I hate it.  I can never seem to get the place as clean as I would like because of her.  Her dog Blackie, comes with her when she comes.  It would be fine except she lets him run loose and he terrorizes the property.  He chases all the birds, digs holes, and antagonizes the other dogs.  Ugh, what a pain in the butt dog.  So anyway, our new place has a garage for Shane to work in and a place to store our out door stuff.  Also the master suite is really good size and even has a soaker tub!  A huge selling point for me.  A separate laundry room, and lots of closet space.  I am hoping that this is a change for the better.  I will really miss Victoria and boys, but it's a good change for them.  They will be closer to their families.  Right now that is really important. Well I think I have made this blog long enough for now.