Pals

Apparently they have something going that I'm not in on. Stella brought Waifer's dish out to the middle room today and threw handfuls of food out for him to eat. And even more amazing, he actually ate it. Come to think of it, Stella is the one who discovered that Waifer likes his dry food wet and mushy these days. She kept putting his dry food into his water, and he kept eating it up. We eventually had a taste test against the dry kibble and Waifer was clear about his preference for mush. I'm glad they're becoming buds, though.

Fences make for good...family?

Waifer has never been fond of Violet. He has slowly come to a grudging acceptance of her, but you never would have seen anything like this between them. Not even with a fence between them.


And when Waifer walked away...

And a couple more - just because they're so darn cute.

Two big milestones

I don't have much to say about this. I think the pictures tell it all. This is Violet's first bike, and in moving up to a bike, she has abandoned her trike to Stella. Needless to say, they are both thrilled. And please take note of how immensely cool Violet's bike truly is. All we added were the tassels and the training wheels. And the license plate, of course.


Violet helped Stella with her seatbelt. She is quite the adoring big sister most of the time.


Isn't this totally the picture of childhood?


Stella was happiest when she was going really, really fast (as was Violet). It was just hard to get a picture of them in their rapture. Here's one of Stella.


And here's one of Violet. Zoomed in and cropped with everything I've got.


This picture is notable in that it shows off one of Stella's new talents: pointing. Jason had finally caught up with Violet and Stella was pointing to them.


And I had to make sure you got a really good look at Stella's boots. She adores them, but they don't stay on very well. This was taken after her ride and she was a trifle exhausted if you can't tell.