It's January and we're SIX months old already!

Yo readers.. Bella here talking to yas finally after getting dad offa his fat behind to do some typing for me..

Well here we are in January - Fiona and I turned six months old a few days ago and our folks say we've grown alot - what do you think? Here is a new pic of me taken around Christmas time.

Fiona is doing well too - she doesn't feel like talking today so i will fill you in on her a bit as well.

We are learning to do some more difficult ground tricks like play soccer with dad, play catch with mom and have our herding and chase instincts down pretty good now too! Fiona and I can catch cookies tossed from about ten feet away, run after and return a soccer ball and are starting to chase and catch frisbees too! Dad yells "FrisBEEEEEEE!!" real loud and we get the frisbee outa our outside toy box and bring it to him and mom to toss for us - it's like way kewl!

I am getting alittle brown coloring around my head -especially around my ears - Dad says I am gonna be a 'tri-color' while my sister will remain a 'black and white'.

Here is a current picture of Fiona taken in December. She thinks she's 'hot' but I am 'hotter'. I made the mistake calling her a 'block headed bitch' the other day - dad laffed but mom scolded me.. guess 'Freedom of Speech' doesn't refer to Border Collies....

Dad thinks we each weigh around 35 pounds now.. this means we're gonna be big girls when we get to be full sized.

Dad timed us in a hundred yard run - we can cover a hundred yards in ten seconds.. dad says this tops us out at about 23 miles per hour! Not bad for a couple of kids!

We went camping (sort of) after Christmas with mom and dad in the little camper - mom thinks we need a bigger camper even though we already have two.. I think she wants what she calls a "diesel pusher" motor home - Dad said he was willing to trade in our big camper on a new, bigger one - we'll see. We like camping and the folks promised we could go to the lake this spring and summer and learn to camp on the water. Dad and mom have a boat too and dad put us in it to 'get us used to sitting in the front' of it.

Here is a picture of our boat. It's a 22 foot Sea Ray and dad says we can go real fast in it. We can't wait to go on the water - dad said he has to get us dog life preservers from 'Paws Aboard' so in case we fall out or get tired swimming we don't sink! We think that's pretty kewl!

Today we are having a big storm - we are 'posed to get alot of snow! I love snow but Fiona said she would rather lay by the fire -I think she has some 'cat' in her maybe ::laffin'::

Bella von Stanislaus Henderson - 6 months old

Anyway, enuff for now -

~bella

(all photography, except boat pic, on this page courtesy of Stefanie Henderson Photography.