Kona and Mia, Best Buds

Kona is alive and well. I realize that I've failed to write about my beloved first baby. She's still the sweetest thing around, always curling up by me for a snuggle or pet. Mia always asks if Kona can come when we are about to go somewhere or when we will walk Kona, but I can't say she is always loving towards Kona. She uses Kona as a distraction tool when she's in trouble.

Kona had an accident in the house a couple of weeks ago (rare occurrence) and when Mia gets into trouble, she will say, "Kona house pee pee NO!" How did this girl learn how to deflect like this? I feel badly that she is scolding Kona about accidentally peeing in the house as we are trying to potty train Mia. I hate for her to think that it's bad for her to pee in the house. My response is always something like, Kona made a mistake, she had an accident, it's okay. Then I try to explain that dogs do their business outside and that people do it in the toilet or little ones do it in their diapers. Hope it sinks in.

Since I'm usually at home, I take Mia with me everywhere and she is quite an astute observer and little consumer. She likes to play shopping with all the empty food boxes I've given her to load in her Little Tikes shopping cart. When she asks to eat something and my response is, "We don't have any today," Mia will say, "Mama buy some" or "Mama go Whole Foods". She never says, "Mama go Safeway!" where we do shop quite often.