Our (very) big girl...

Maddoxx has not had much blog love lately. It's time to change that! Perhaps it's time for a re-introduction! This is our first "child" Maddoxx. She got her name because we found a dog we wanted to adopt whose name was Maddoxx. At the time we were living in an apartment and could not have a pet. From that point on, we always talked about having our own Maddoxx someday. Here she is!


She loves her toys (way too much)! As a puppy, she would not stop biting us. The only way to get her to stop was to play fetch with her. So we did.....and didn't realize that we were creating a monster right along with it! She will whine EVERY night, multiple times a night unless we are playing fetch with her. I need to post video of it soon so you can feel our pain....honestly it is obnoxious!

We may have already failed at this whole parenting thing. So there's the monster issue stated above....and our most recent discovery....(I'm not a bad mom, I'm not a bad mom)....we have been WAY over feeding her for at least a year!!! WHAT?!?! She's obese (there I said it!), and it's all our fault. She's had a very steady weight gain over the last year. I just kept saying, "it happens to us girls sometimes". Well it turns out it was our fault all along. Why we didn't check the food bag earlier, I have no idea. But this week we had the brilliant idea to check the food bag to see how much she should be eating.

The bag told the truth.

Our very sweet (a hem, overly obese), lovable, (cough, obnoxious) girl should only be eating 1/2 - 1 cup of food A DAY!!! Oh my goodnes, she has been eating 1 1/2 - 2 cups a day!!

Guilty as charged. She's now on a diet and not digging it.