Our "Aunt" Sofia Finally Went Home

Our "grandma" or "omi" as she likes to be called went on a cruise recently.  That meant that our "aunt" Sofia had to stay with us for a whole week.  Our mommy and daddy like Sofia but Nellie Belle is a bully with Sofie. Barney and Opi could really care less if Sofie visits, but Nellie is more spoiled and a real diva at times.  Here are a few pictures of Sofie's visit.

This is Barney (on your left) and Nellie

Barney (front) and guilty Nellie Belle

Sofia--she wouldn't hold still for picture

Opi

Opi was sick this past week.  Probably had some kind of bug.  The vet didn't know what was going on but he knew Opi wasn't feeling too chipper.  One good bit of news from that visit--Opi has lost 1 1/2 lbs!  Yippee that expensive Science Diet Light has done some good!  Now that Opi has gone from 8lbs 9oz to 7lbs even we still have a ways to go until he is in the 5lb range.  This picture isn't recent, for some reason he managed to escape the camera fanatic in our house lol.

This is it for now folks, so hugs and puppy kisses for all!

Fun in the Sun

Nellie Belle and Opi were having a great time cavorting in the sun. I was busy trying to get my house clean before my mil came over to babysit the chis and their big sister Barney. DH and I were going to Illinois to visit some of my family. During break-time, I broke out my camera and started going to town filming them and taking their pictures. This video is 3 separate small clips that I have joined together. There are some talkative people in the background so just ignore them when they start talking local politics. It's not the best quality but you can see the "kids" having fun. After we returned from Illinois, the "kids" were scratching themselves raw so we took them to the vet. No fleas but they were having problems with allergies. The vet told us that we live in the allergy capital of the USA. Oh, and Opi, our "chunky monkey" needs to lose about 3 lbs! I had the vet tell that to dh because dh never listened to me when I said Opi needed to lose weight. We had been free feeding all 3 of them but we had to put a stop to that. Now, all 3 of them are put out with the new feeding schedule!