the first ordeal

While we were skiing for the first time this year...

Dogs were in this dog's day care center.

There were several dogs already. Toby had never been in the same room with stranger dogs before. At the instance we came in, two Jack Russels barked and growled to Toby, he freaked out and whined behind my legs.

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"He'll be fine!" the owner of this place who was so nice and a believer of the concept of the power of the pack from Ceser Milan's show announced us.

As a result he was fine. He survived whole 12 hours without us.

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I have to admit I missed him. I happened to smell Toby's puppy smell from my gloves on the ski lift and I missed him. It was like Mom missed her baby boy after he left for his nursery school for the first time.

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After he overcame his first obstacle, you know what ?, he started lifting his leg when he pees!! I wonder what he learned...macho?! oh, nooo..

winter wonderland 2

They were having a GREAT time in snow.

After that...poor Toby's wearing a lot of snow balls on his belly. It took us to comb them off for 20 min.

The girls tried the longest sleigh ride on the drive way. Snow bumper made it much more fun!!

Roofed bridge. I felt like breaking into the barn by car and went through it.

On the way home, tired kids and puppy shared the pillow for a few hours.

It was a perfect winter wonderland. Thanks!!

winter wonderland

One weekend on January, we drove up to Vermont.

Our wonderful friend generously invited us to their beautiful cabin.

Felt like I was in a drawing of Christmas card, this was the perfect cabin you can imagine of, beautifully made, cozy and homey inside, so quiet all you can hear is the crackle of logs in a fireplace and of course laughter of children.

Dads and girls and dogs went to walk in the woods.

Mystic fetches this log size wood.

Toby fetches this chopstick size twig.

Do you guys have to be that close?

The curtain of icicles. In here time was melting so slowly as well.

doggy playdate

Let me introduce my girlfriend Mystic.

The first time I met her I was scared to death because she was huge. Moreover she insisted to play ball with me. she pounced around me with holding a ball which size was as big as my head in her mouth. I was shaking and whined, all i can do was hiding behind my mommy's legs.
But, I've been growing everyday. I was not the coward Toby today. I played with her in her dog run. I challenged to get her tail and tried to nibble her ankles. didn't make it though..maybe next time...

the first yoga in 2011

She is the founder of Jivamukti Yoga at NY. It was the second time i participated her annual workshop.
She asked us what yoga was. She asked us to feel, listen, imagine and think of love.

Since this class was mainly for advanced practitioners, I had hard time to keep up. I was wishing only if I would be able to do forarm stand.

But wait, last year I was scared to do headstand which I can do now. OK, at the next year's her workshop, I'll invert on my forarms. This is my New Year's resolution for yoga.

Run! Toby, run!

We went to this dog park on New Years day.

Toby ran, ran and ran.
His floppy ears were flown up to the air like a bunny's when he went down.

When he was going UP, his floppies allowed gravity pull down. A running fur ball.

Yipieee!!!

a snow dog

How many snow storms have we had already? Five or six? and right in this moment we are having the other one...sob...

My husband and I are so sick of shoveling and my kids are tired of making a igloo or snowmen anymore, but there is this guy who always happy in snow and has never cared the chilliness.

He pounces, dives, rolls and digs on snow. It was so adorable the way he mesmerized (or tried to eat?) by falling snow.

Christmas in the City

On Christmas day in 2010, we drove up to the city to see the famous Christmas tree in the world.
This was not the first time to see the tree for us except for Toby. Did Toby get to see the tree and enjoyed it? Oh, no...he is a dog after all. But you know..we wanted to include him to our family tradition. He enjoyed cuddling up in my arms, because that place was literally packed.

He enjoyed the Central Park walk very much. It was a lot of work though. He stopped everytime he saw other dogs, was scared horses and carriege and scared ducks on the pond to death by barking. He definetly needs walk training.

This was our first outing with Toby, it was so much fun.