Adopting an Adult Dog - Part 2

Happy Wordless Wednesday, everyone! I know that this is supposed to be my weekly Picture Perfect Party Linky post, but we haven't had internet in our area the entire day and we were told that it might only be working by tomorrow. For that reason, I didn't plan to have a post ready for today and decided to leave my linky party for next week Tuesday. It's already nighttime here, so I want to keep this post short and sweet.

As many of you already know, we have a new member in our family! His name is Koda, and he comes from the animal shelter in Gordon's Bay, Cape Town. Samantha and Amanda chose the name from the Disney movie, Brother Bear.

We got him on Friday and surprised our oldest child, Jeremiah, who came home from university on Saturday morning. (The school year in South Africa starts in the middle of January and finishes at the beginning of December, so all our kids are now on midterm break.) 

It's nice having everyone home and we are all enjoying Koda, except for the cats. We still haven't managed to calm him down enough to meet the cats properly. We keep him on a leash when he's inside the house, so that our two cats aren't totally freaked out.

If you missed Part 1 and all the photos, you can check it out here. I'll be sharing more photos on Friday's post. Take care!

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Kid's Fashion and Kitty Cats with #Linky

Welcome to my Picture Perfect
Party Linky #183!

Amanda got some new clothes for her birthday. We bought the soft pants and Elsa (from Frozen) shirt. Amanda chose the pretty ombré T-shirt when she went birthday shopping with her grandma. The necklace was designed and made by Amanda.

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Amanda's Kitty Cat, Sheela

Samantha's Kitty Cat, Prince

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Birthday Girl with #Linky

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Amanda and my mom-in-law

On Friday I posted photos of Amanda's class party. You can see her classroom and her teacher here: Birthday and Blogiversary!

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Birthday and Blogiversary!

Welcome to my weekend blog hop -

Make My Saturday Sweet #164!

Happy 8th Birthday, Amanda!

and

Happy 4th Blogiversary,

Amanda's Books and More!

Amanda turns 8 on Sunday! She had a little party today at school with her friends. She dressed up like a princess and wore a Disney Tinkerbell dress that used to belong to Jessica. Her sister, Jessica, will be 18 in June. This blog also celebrates a blogiversary this month too! Amanda's Books and More has been going for 4 years now.

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Amanda's Classroom

Amanda handing out lucky packets

Amanda with a candy necklace

Amanda with her teacher

This last photo is of Amanda with her lovely teacher. I purposely didn't include any clear photos of the kids' faces since I would like to have permission first.

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Weekend Linky

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Amanda at Play with #WW Linky

Welcome to my Picture Perfect
Party Linky #91!

Last week I shared photos

of my family and my home.

Today's pictures are of

Amanda at play in her

bedroom. She shares a

room with her sister,

Samantha.

Amanda got a Disney Elsa shirt.

We love the movie, Frozen.
She and I still listen and
and sing-a-long to the
songs on YouTube,
especially to "Let it Go."

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GG and Mamela w/ $50 Giveaway!

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Donkeys at Kleinplasie, South Africa

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Picture Perfect Party Linky #46

I set aside these two pictures of our playful kittens for a "rainy" day. I decided to schedule them for last week, but then I chose to take a blogging holiday instead. It all worked out for the best, because last week we flew from South Africa to Florida and I couldn't get an internet connection until recently. I'm also including two pictures of our kids on the way to the States. By the way, it took us 36 hours to fly from South Africa to Orlando. Amanda was a real trouper.

Prince and Sheela with Amanda's toys

Prince on Amanda's Winnie the Pooh train

The three sisters: Amanda, Samantha and Jessica
Their brother, Jeremiah, is in the background

Amanda at the Dubai airport in the middle of the night

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