This is too adorable for words:

If you’re wondering why I am suddenly seemingly obsessed with the Muppets and Sesame Street all I will say for now is that you’re just jealous that you can’t justify it as work and I can. (No, really.) But that’s a story for another day.

On another subject all together, mine is one of those streets that sort of competes with itself during the holidays:

Unlike most streets, though, it seems to be a competition for most obnoxious and gaudy. This house is a few doors down from me and I don’t think there’s a blow-up decoration available that they don’t have. Yara and Uschi both find the house quite peculiar and have had varying reactions to the huge, blow-up snowmen and company. I didn’t realize for quite some time that there are a few that are animated, too. Santa pops out of one of them and I think at least one of the snowmen waves.

There’s an addition this year of a camper-style RV and Uschi, frankly, finds it disturbing. The first time we came to the house since it was put out, she flatly refused to walk by it. A subsequent trip was only slightly better in that I didn’t have to walk around the block to get where I was going, but Uschi chose instead to growl at it menacingly.

ETA: It’s been almost a year and I’m still constantly calling the girls the wrong names, but this was the first post that I caught myself writing the wrong dog’s name. I’m now deeply curious if I’ve ever actually posted something unknowingly using the wrong name!