Expedition to the Outback

Schatzi decided early in the morning to shock her Dad : Today, I will take the plunge !
She carefully checked the backyard for the last 3 weeks and today was the day to nonchalantly just walked off into the lower 40ties .
She ambled to where it smells of fox food, around the big blue spruce, very gingerly wobbled over the rocks, sniffed another tree, where the fox probably left his business card, looked astonishingly at a squirrel and headed calmly towards the door.
Emmett walking a short distance behind her, eyes open wide huffing in disbelieve.

Stopping by the door, she remembered her good manners : I let him think, he is the alpha dog and wait until he is inside and then I show up. I am really in Dad's good graces now !

With Andy I will explore the family room and even attempt to climb these stairs, although I am still not quite sure how they work. One step at the time, so far so good.

Mom comes dressed in her chain mail !
Oh boy, this can only mean another driving lesson. Don't they know by now how to make that car go ? I have to really dig my nails in mom's shoulder to slow it down.

Schatzi likes busy parking lots and sees everything, eyes never blinking , never missing a thing and never taking a nap like all the dachsie used to do.
The dachsies knew the town inside out. Parking by the Vet -- bad news. Parking by Wimberger's on the Westside brought delicious morsels of Gelbwurst and stinky cheese. Parking by the meat packing plant was confusing and had many scary scents.

Schatzi so far does not care where we park, the important question however remains : Why do we need the car for this ?