A Happy tale for the morning!

This picture doesn't do it justice. When I woke up is was a bit sunshiny but so so so windy! Then all of a sudden HUGE drops of rain started blowing sideways... I let the 2 small dogs out a bit earlier and started to wonder if they were going to blow away! So of course I heard the scratching at the door. Soon after that gigantic snowflakes and hail made their way through the area. Now aside from the wind it looks as though the sun may come out for a minute or two.
So Jon got home at 7:45 and went straight to bed since the kids were miraculously sleeping still. It is hard for him to do the night shift or at least get to sleep with 3 boisterous kids! I got up ans started to make breakfast. I made the kids lemon sprinkled oatmeal pancakes. Zack wanted 'lemonade' pancakes for breakfast today after yesterdays invented chocolate pancakes. They must have been good because I ended up with one and the kids each got 5!!! They actually ate them but it made them too full for the tea they begged for!

I haven't mentioned the full zoo we have either. Sammi has been watching me work with my dogs for the last few months and have been trying to train them too. they are pitbulls so they were too big for her to walk and she couldn't get them to listen to her. So after almost 3 months of trying so hard to train the dogs and and walk and train her stuffed dog we decided to get her a 'Sammi size' dog. She loves pomeranians or Pomerani-ooooo as she calls them. So after searching all the shelters etc I found a breeder on kijiji and more or less begged for a dog!=D She had a female she no longer wanted because she had such big litters a couple of them would be 'special needs' (she didn't get into the details). The girl had already had 2 litters and she turned 2 December 23rd. So on the 12th Natasha came to live with us. We changed her name to Sasha, and she is such a sweet dog. Typical breeding dog in terms of not knowing commands etc. But she is real smart and she is learning them great! The lady had asked me if I wanted to take another dog of hers after I told her I was in the process of becoming a dog trainer. She said that he had basically severe fear issues. Of course I said yes, I am a sucker and would love the challenge. So the 17th Happy came to live with us as a foster until I got him to be a normal dog. When we got Sasha for Sammi, Zack said he wanted a fish but after not having a dog to walk he wanted his own dog so I told him about Happy and that we would make him his dog.
Happy is such a beautiful dog. This picture was of the 1st day we got him. He was matted a crusty and gross. You should see him now, I spent an hour with him while I put him in the bathtub washing, cutting, brushing, and getting all the mats out of him. YOu should have seen the pile of hair in the garbage can! In less than 2 weeks though he is transforming into a great dog! He still has a long way to go but he went from a dog we had to pull out from under the bed, that you couldn't touch - into my little shadow that I can let outside all by himself and he will come back!

For the rest of the day I would love to just curl on the couch and watch movies since the weather is a real downer but can't do that! The kids are making their beds and cleaning the play room real quick so we can get them bathed and dressed to do school for the day and then go to town to check the mail etc.

Zack is getting real good at adding and subtracting. Sammi she at times is quicker than Zack! She will be doing her writing or whatever and then just but out the answer to Zack's math problem.
Last night we started reading the book Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. We only got through 11 pages last night because every time I said 'Mrs. Piggle Wiggle' Zack would start giggling. For our craft today part of it will be to make bookmarks for our books. The night before last we did the last experiment for the skeletal system in the magic school bus human body experiments. I believe we are on the muscular system now. Here they are leaning about ball and socket joints. They really love doing the human body poster. It is so fun do this stuff with them because they get so into it. They are getting really excited because we are seeing seedling appear on 2 of the 6 things we planted the other day. I am not sure where we are going to put these once they are ready to put outside but we'll figure it out!