Give Me Your Paw!

Austen's been loving Adler. Sometimes a little too much and a little too roughly but for the most part I know he likes having her around and she likes having him there too.

When she's not within eyesight, he'll say to me "Where's Abbie?" And, today when I was reading him a book at naptime with a dog in it that looked almost like Adler, he mentioned that the dog was Adler or "Abbie" as he calls her. Then tonight at bedtime we were reading another book with a dog in it and I said, hey, look it's Adler. He must've noticed the dog didn't look anything like Adler and it didn't because he shook his head and said, "No, Abbie."

We've also been teaching Austen to use Adler's commands lately. He's really good at being bossy and telling her to "get down!" which is supposed to really be sit but he likes to be extra forceful! We just taught him to tell Adler to give him her paw and he loves this trick. Of course he says "Ab Paw" but she gets the idea. Check out the video below of the two of them up to their new tricks.