Best Friend

When we brought Erika home, I was really hoping that she and Wyatt would get along and one day become good friends. I think the day has come! Well, Erika wants to be Wyatt's friend...I'm not sure how exactly he feels about it. She loves giving Wyatt hugs and "petting" him. So far, her petting is more along the lines of hitting, but we're working on being gentle. She goes around the house following Wyatt saying, "Puppy! puppy!" It's really cute! Here are a few pictures of the two of them playing together and Erika petting Wyatt.

Does Wyatt look sad that Erika is near him?

Finally, he just gives up and allows her to touch him.

Teeny Tiny TV

As I was making Erika's toast this morning (a fantastic chef, I know!), the television kept shutting itself off. Then, it started making a funny noise, similar to a cricket and became quite snowy. I went to investigate and smelled burning plastic. Afraid the television was going to explode at any minute, I quickly unplugged the power strip, and yelled for Sarah. I'm not sure why I involved Sarah, but it made me feel more secure having another adult there in case the tv actually did spontaneously explode. We decided to leave the tv off for a while and then see if it would stink still after resting for a while. After 3 hours of no television, we attempted to plug it back in, but sparks greeted us as we plugged the tv into the wall. We then made the decision to call it quits with the tv.

Fortunately, Sarah has a small television in her bedroom so we transferred the big, broken tv into her room and the small tv into the living room for our viewing pleasure. Moving the giant tv was a story in and off itself. I'll just let you know that there was a lot of laughing, a few close calls with dropping the heavy item, and a change of underwear when we were done. Now, we can watch tv, but it's tiny! It looks kind of sad after having such a big television before this. Here are some pictures!