8 months!

Today is our Nellie Girl's 8 month birthday. As I type she is lounging around, going from chair to chair, and laying on Zach. She seems to know that she is the little queen bee around here, especially since her surgery. She even thinks she is entitled to laying on our laps at all hours of the day! Her 8 month stats:

20 lbs on the dot when I took her to the vet last week.

So incredibly long from head to tail!

She has figured out how to jump into the chairs in the kitchen. Her first victorious consumption was the crust of an apple pie! She was very impressed with herself! Especially more so that her Mama.

We are still working on the command "Roll over." We haven't been working on it due to her sore belly after surgery, so I'm going to start back with her on it soon. For those keeping track (haha, okay it's just me) she now knows sit, stay, lay down, get it, drop it, shake, and (almost) roll over. I think she is building a pretty good repetoire!

Nellie is incredibly mischevious these days. She has also learn the skill of stealth. I think she tiptoes sometimes, because she will be across the house and suddenly be standing right under me. Half the time, she scares the life out of me too! (Because let's face it, I'm kind of a chicken.) She is also good at sneaking items to chew on. Unfortunately she is not very good at hiding while chewing on said items, because we find her within seconds! This is a good thing though as we would be short a few pairs of shoes, gloves, socks, and dryer sheets if she was!

We are so thankful everything went well with her surgery and she is now back to her energetic, fast, crazy, sweet self! We love you, our precious Nellie girl!

~Mama and Daddy