A New Year & A New Scent

Happy Belated New Year! This New Year's was low key and just the way I like it. Megan and Neal visited us, we played with Cole, watched TV and watched a movie. Well, I watched the movie through my eyelids, Megan told me it was good. She took a lot of good pics of Cole. Check out her blog for all of the cool pics. http://www.ferrisandsimone.com/

Anyway, today was Cole's first bath. Thank god because he smelled like shit. I mean like he rolled in and ate shit. So PetSmart charges only $11 to wash puppies. I thought it was a good deal plus he'll get the socialization time. Cole was a show stopper at PetSmart. All of the little kids wanted to pet him and adults were asking tons of questions. He did so well in the store. When we got home, Shawn and I decided that we were going to teach Cole how to lay down. First we told him to "come here" then we told him to sit (we also put our hand in the air like you're signaling stop because we want him to learn hand signals too). Then with him sitting and with a treat in my hand I slowly lowered my hand to the floor and said "down." And he did it! We did 10 reps, haha, I know, reps, but by the end he was able to do it without any treats!

Here's a picture of Cole all nice a clean and with his bandana from PetSmart:

Cole likes to look at his reflection in the refrigerator and dishwasher. Shawn said that he was staring at a reflection of Shawn in the dishwasher for like 5 minutes.

Here's a random picture of Cole modeling his raincoat/winter jacket. He's only worn it once outside, but I like to put it on him from time to time because he looks ridiculous in it plus I paid $25.

So Megan came up with a pretty good NY resolution. So I was thinking and I came up with my own NY resolution. It may be stupid, but I figured that if I blog about it and enough people bug me about from reading it here, then maybe it will happen. Here goes. My resolution is to change my hairstyle at least once this year. I'm tired of the same old long and straight hair. It's comfy and I know what to do with it, but I think I need a change. It's time. What do you think? Any suggestions?