North Star Welcomes President Obama

Patty Dobbs Gross, the Executive Director of the North Star Foundation took one of their North Star dogs to Washington, DC for the inauguration. Her son, Dan, her inspiration for founding the North Star Foundation, produced the film. Patty and Dan's short film warms my heart and brings tears to my eyes.

Thank you, Patty, for your work with North Star, for choosing us to be a North Star family, and for your wonderful wisdom and words.

The Magic of Sassy

We have never doubted the effectiveness of Sassy's presence in our home, but today, she took her status in our house up several notches!

For the past few weeks, we have been waiting for Jack's bottom baby teeth to fall out. He has 2 bottom teeth fused together and his adult tooth had already begun growing in behind them. The dentist said that it was fine, it would eventually push the baby teeth out, so we waited and waited and waited... Jack would not let us wiggle it much or touch the teeth for that matter, so we just continued to wait...

This morning when Mike was brushing Jack's teeth, it began to bleed profusely. We had to wrestle Jack to the floor as he was freaking out about his tooth and the sight of blood coming out of his mouth. The tooth was hanging by a thread and was ready to come out. Jack wanted nothing to do with this whole process and was in a full screetch. Not wanting him to swallow it, we held him down and I literally just touched the tooth and out it came!

During all this comotion, Sassy was sniffing Jack and wondering what was happening to her boy. Jack continued to flail about, scream and cry. He did not accept any coddling so we just let him lay on the floor and continue "work it out". While Mike and I were examining the tooth, Jack suddenly stopped crying. We looked down and there was Sassy laying next to Jack on the floor and Jack was petting her. Sassy worked her magic and laid down next to Jack and calmed him down in a matter of seconds. Amazing. Truly amazing.

Sassy's Brother: Charlie the North Star Dog

Charlie with his boy Tim

I've been meaning to write about Sassy's brother, Charlie the North Star Dog and his boy, Tim. Tim's mom, Carolyn, also blogs http://charliethenorthstardog.blogspot.com/ about their journey with Charlie and Tim, and she found us on Blogger! We found out that Charlie and Sassy are full blooded siblings, born on December 10, 2007. They look so much alike, we can only tell them apart by their "boys".


My absolute favorite picture is Charlie and Tim at Halloween dressed up like Darth Vader and Yoda:

We are very excited to be connected to Charlie, Tim and their parents and look forward to meeting them some day! Thank you, Carolyn, for finding us!