Snow Day

January in Indiana

Mom, can we go outside? Please!!!


OMG what is all this cold white stuff?





-10 minutes later-
OK, I'm cold... lets go in now!

Happy Birthday Meiby!

It's Meiby's 2nd birthday... and it snowed a bunch:





Ok, I'm done now. It's cold!

Snow Day

Meiby gazes out the window...


What does she see?


Lots of snow!


We can't even open the door!


I guess we're not going outside today...


Or maybe we will ;)

Cold, Colder, Coldest

Every time I think it can't get any colder, it does. This has, so far, been the worst winter I can remember. We currently have at least a foot of snow on the ground (more like 2-3 feet where it has drifted) and today there is a HIGH of -1 degrees. There is a windchill warning of -30! What is going on? Needless to say, Meiby has not left the house in several days. She's doing a pretty good job of using the puppy pads (she still "misses" occasionally) but she's getting a little stir crazy. Poor pug! I can't wait until it's warm enough to take her on walks again...

Snow!

We got lots of snow this weekend and it's not too cold for Meiby so I took her out to play in the snow for a bit. She loves to jump around in the snow! She found a stick hidden under a layer of snow and chomped on it for a while... I had to drag her away from it. I made sure to take advantage of the natural light and her contrast with the snow to get some cute photos:

A New Level of Cold

This weekend I don't think the temperature ever got higher than 8 degrees F. We stayed home pretty much all weekend, watched movies, stayed warm on the couch ;)

We'd take Meiby outside when she needed to pee and she'd do it right away, then walk in a couple circles and sit down, picking up her little frozen paws. I didn't want to risk her getting frostbite in zero-degree weather so I'd pick her up and take her inside and she'd finish her business on her designated puppy pad. No problems all weekend! I think she finally gets it! Of course it helps that we were home to supervise her all weekend.

I had to go back to work today and my poor (brand new) car didn't want to start this morning. It's still only zero degrees right now with a whopping high of 11 degrees today. It hurts to breathe out there!

What do you want for Xmas, Meiby?

Food

Treats

Snacks

Toys

Cookies

Warmth

... did I say Treats?

I put up our tree this past weekend, for the first time in our new house and, obviously, the first time since we've had Meiby. She seems pretty unphased by it. She did try to eat the fur off the top of a stocking though. We just have a small fake tree with fiber optic lights and it's lifted off the ground so there's nothing for Meiby to get into trouble with. We only have about 8 ornaments but I'll probably get a few more this year (like this one.)

So Cold!

It was barely 16 degrees outside this morning with a fresh coat of ice and snow. Poor Meiby peed immediately but after a few minutes outside she started getting so cold that she laid down in the snow to keep her little princess paws out of the snow. I took her inside after a while and let her warm up while I got ready for work. Then I took her out again and she did the same thing, refused to poop. Nick got her to do it later but it got us thinking about alternatives. I've heard of people having litter-trained their pugs. I think Meiby could get it without much trouble because she already looks for an absorbent spot in the house (like a towel) whenever she does happen to pee or poop in the house. Yea, we might be supporting her wuss behavior but this might also be a good solution for whenever Nick finds a full time outside-the-house job (he's home all day with her for now). Obviously pugs are not cats and won't cover their business with litter when finished and I'm not sure Meiby wouldn't try to eat the litter... I was thinking more along the lines of washable junk towels in a tray (or even newspaper) that would be cleaned up as soon as possible after her use. I'm back and forth on the idea of teaching her that it's ever OK to pee/poop in the house but I have a feeling that she's going to do it on occasion anyway. I think it might be more important to stress to her that it's never OK to pee on the carpet!

More snow!

This is the first part of Meiby's first snow video. It was too cute not to post!

Meiby's first snow

We got our first snow last night and it was a big one. There's about 6-8 inches of fluff all over. I'm not sure that she likes it much but she's so cute bounding around in it. I personally hate snow but laughing at Meiby outside makes it more enjoyable for sure! ;)