Not a baby anymore...

Bug is officially a little brat. A cute little brat, but a brat nonetheless. 

It's been such a long time since I last wrote a post for Bug's corner, that looking back at the last one, I've noticed how much he has grown up!

He's now toilet trained, to an extent. He's awful at sneaking away and doing his business somewhere in the house, so now we have taken to shutting him in the room we are sitting in so he has to ask to go out. 

Liam tried to teach him to bark at the back door when he needed to go outside, but it just ended with him barking at anything and everything that he wanted. 

I think the next milestone will be getting Mr. Bug doctored. He seems to think that Mischief is a dog and that she is actually interested in some action. My poor kitty cat never gets a moments peace. Except, for when either of them are sleeping. 

He had his first walk in the snow last week, and I think he enjoyed it. Although, I think he may have enjoyed defrosting by the fire when we got home, more. 

I still love my little Mr. so very much, but I have to admit that I'm looking forward to him growing up a little bit. He's most definitely stuck in the dogs equivalent of the terrible twos. 

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Growing up way too fast!

He really is! I swear it was only a week ago, we bought this little dude home.

Since the last update, Bug has been on a good few walks! We haven't been taking him out every day, purely for the fact that he is still small and it's been ridiculously cold! Yesterday, we walked to the park, all the way around it and back home. It definitely tuckered him out. 

Potty training seems to be going well. He finally realises that he has to go to the back door when he needs to do his business, and the only accidents he has are when we aren't watching him. Other than that, we still come downstairs to wee wees in the morning, but we're hoping that he'll get used to going before and after bedtime as he grows up. 

He's still biting a whole ton. Most of the time I think he doesn't even realise how hard. We've tried several ways to stop him, but at the moment nothing seems to be working. Any suggestions?

I think the days of my tiny little Buggy are gone. He's getting bigger every day. He now even fits in the coat I got him before we even got him. His harness on the other hand, is still a little big to use. I'm sure it won't be long though. 

He still very much loves his cuddles, and he still hasn't made friends with the cats. I reaaaallly hope they click soon. 

If you'd like to, you can still see plenty of photos of him over on my instagram @whenflowersfall.

You can also watch him on his walk, just click the Vlogmas video below. 

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Hi, my loves!

I thought I would post the last couple of days of VLOGMAS, just in case you missed them. I have been uploading in the evening of the same day, but that means they have been completed in the early hours of the morning, meaning a lot of people have been missing them!

I hope you all are enjoying these little daily vlogs. It seems I have lost a couple of yt subscribers since starting them, so maybe I will create a vlog channel for next year. 

I will back with my regular posts on Thursday! It's been a super busy week!!

Pee pee pads and chew toys

My little man is growing up fast! I swear he's so much bigger than when we got him home last week! 

This week has been a challenge of patience. We've been battling with Bug to get him to use his puppy training pads regularly, and luckily we have wooden floors downstairs, so we haven't had too many disastrous accidents. Apart from the one where he woke from a deep sleep and proceeded to pee all over my sofa. For the past couple of days he's been having a good few hours, then returning to his floor peeing ways. Today though, we seem to have had a break through. His last three pee pees have been on the pad, of his own accord. Usually we have to sit with him and keep placing him back on it until he does one, so this is huge! Liam and I sadly sat, silently cheering as he did his last one. I've got everything crossed that he carries on knowing where to go! 

Other than that, the little blighter has been teething this week, meaning we've had to buy a couple of new chew toys for him to play with. Although, he does seems to prefer fingers at the moment.

One thing he has learnt the meaning of, is the word 'No'. As long as we say it forcefully, he reacts and stops what he's doing straight away. 

Next week he gets his first jab. I'm a little nervous because I know I'm going to feel like a horrible mummy, but I know it's all worth it and soon it means he can finally learn to do his business in the garden. It also means we can start going for walkies! 

Right at this moment, he's lying in his bed, snuggled up in a blanket. Unlike Luna, when she was a kitten, he doesn't make a very good blogging buddy. He always wants to either sit on the keyboard or chew the corners of my laptop.

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What a fun week I've had!

You may have noticed the lack of posts this week. That's mainly due to the fact that I have been struck down with a case of unknown illness. I've had everything from sickness and migraines, to swollen tonsils. 

Not only has this completely distracted me from the blog, but it also ruined my weeks plans to look after Sarah's lit'len.

 Bug's been keeping me company.

Today is the first day I have felt anything close to human and I think I may have succeeded in sweating out what's left of this bug whilst throwing the hoover around my house. 

This means I'll be back on top blogging form, hopefully by Monday at the latest. 

I'm going to spend the weekend planning out some posts and writing up reviews that have been neglected and with a bit of luck, I'll be back to posting a lot more regularly soon. 

Keep your eyes peeled for another little post tonight.

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If you guys read my post from yesterday, then you would have seen me mention a new member that was appearing within the next month. Originally he wasn't coming home until the beginning of November, but when we went to visit last night, the breeder told us that he was already weaned, partially puppy pad trained and ready to leave mum. So, without anything prepared for him, we took our new bundle of joy home with us.

If you follow me on Twitter, you would have already seen me gushing about him. 

If not, meet BUG! 

He is a jack russell x border terrier. 

One of the biggest in his litter but was the last to be chosen. When we originally contacted the breeder she had two of the six pups left. Both boys, which was totally fine by us, and we arranged to visit yesterday to choose one and pay a deposit. A couple of days later, I received an email from her saying that one of the pups had been chosen and he was the last one left and did we want him. After seeing a photo, I fell in love! 

That pretty much takes us to yesterday, when we ended up bringing him home early. 

On the way home we stopped off at Morrisons to buy some puppy food and wee wee pads, then took him home to settle. 

Because we have carpet upstairs, I decided to stay in the living room with him for the night. In all honesty, I thought it would be 100 times worse than it was. He cuddled with me all night, woke every two hours for a wee and a little play, then woke at 6:45 this morning. I knew it would be and it totally was like having a new born baby in the house. Lucky Liam was snoozing away in our bed whilst I was cramped on the sofa. But, he's so worth it. 

I'm doing the same thing tonight and hopefully by the weekend, he will have settled enough to snuggle in his new bed (buying that tomorrow) by himself. As soon as he can use his puppy pads completely on his own he can come upstairs with us and the kitties. Who, I forgot to mention, have taken to him so well!! 

Anyways, I think I may have spoken puppy for too long, so I'm going to leave it at that. 

One thing I will mention though is, with the new addition will come a new addition to the blog. 

Every now and then I'm going to post 'pupdates'. These will become to be what I'm calling

If you want to follow this, you can find Bug's Corner in the tabs at the top!!

I'm going to go for a cuddle now.