Home Alone

Mar 22

Scott's in Indy for meetings today, and I'm not at the office. So, I'm home alone and tending to things like my soul and the refrigerator.

I've decided we need a doggie door. Pepper rings her bell to go out very, very frequently. Sometimes the cat joins her. You may be wondering what the items strewn across the floor are...

Poor bird

This is a small stuffed robin that belongs to Anna. It sings a robin song if you squeeze it.

Anna's new stamps

Here are some stamps that I pulled out for Anna when school was cancelled Monday because of freezing rain.

Please let me out and stop taking pictures. (She totally makes you want a dog, right?)

You may be wondering why my daughter is so careless with her things. Pepper is the true culprit. We forgot to put up the doggie gate on Anna's door this morning. For Pepper, Anna's room is the room of forbidden treasures. She knows these things are not hers, but will steal something occasionally, then trot to the door with her prize in her mouth. There's a certain trot that's the "I've just stolen something" trot that's immediately recognizable.

She used to keep the forbidden items in her mouth as she rang her bell to go out, seemingly unaware that we could see what was in her mouth and were unlikely to let her out with a precious Harris family object.

Now, she knows there's not a chance, but I suppose she drops them here just so we know she got away with it.

Maybe a doggie door isn't such a good idea...

And here are some pictures from last week's school cancellation, which was way more fun than the freezing rain cancellation...