May I Share A Bit With You From My Recent Journey. I Will Share More In The Next Few Days.

I was celebrating a sort of delayed Christmas with family. So you know what that means right? Christmas gifts given and also received too. I received a most beautiful necklace that is so very colorful and so me at the same time. I was on a hunt the other day to find earrings to match it with the gift card I received also. Found earrings made in Israel but not 100% convinced they are the perfect match. I will still continue to look in the event a better match comes forth. I then found a beautiful green copper turquoise ring that oddly enough matches the necklace. Well guess what? In further contemplating them I found they just did not match to my idea of matching. I returned them both and I am still in search of a complimentary match to go with the necklace. Why settle for something less than the best match right.

So when I was visiting, one day I was in charge of letting the puppy outside a few times for bathroom breaks. This puppy is so adorable and so loving and also likes to play. She is so light in weight that when you try to take the toy from her to throw it for her to catch she at times has a strong grip on it and I found myself actually picking her up with the toy. So, there are gates up around the house for her to not go upstairs well guess what? Three yes 3 times I found her upstairs and we could not figure out how she got up there. I even secured one of the gates with a sort of brace so the gate could not move. Well it was not that gate but she figured out how to get the other gate to sort of go on a slant and then we guess she jumped onto the steps and up she goes. Well the first time I found her upstairs I carried her down the steps. Then when it was the 2nd & 3rd time I figured out it was time for her to learn how to walk down the set of stairs. She was a little apprehensive going down the first step at the top. I stayed with her and would encourage her to go to the next step and so forth. I find myself calling her "baby doll" and "baby girl" when talking with her to encourage her that she could do it. It seemed to be that once she masters the first set of steps and she is at the landing then the rest of the few steps are easier for her. The third time in doing this she decides to lay down and rest on a step and I say on no you can do this and no time for resting now. She then gets to the landing and wants to lay and rest again. Once again I said to her you went up the stairs now you have to come down these stairs. She did. The 3rd time, I took pictures of her coming down the stairs she is so darn cute, she really is.

Isn't she adorable:

I found out later that I was the first one to get her to come down the stairs, isn't that funny? I learned to use a treat to encourage her to come down the stairs.