Beware the Were-Poodle

Jasper has fully recovered, with Kennedy feeling stronger every day. Poppy says her lungs no longer hurt and the only symptom left of her pneumonia is a cough. I am taking longer than everyone else to get better, but every day I can do more and need less rest. In another week or so we'll be able to go Christmas shopping...that will be so fun. I already know what I'm going to get Kennedy. Jasper wants Lego robots, and Poppy wants another pegasus and a dragon. She's crazy about "mythical creatures" right now and always has a highly imaginative saga going on in her room between all the stuffed animals, Barbie dolls, horses, dragons, & Godzilla. The funniest is the Werepoodle, in my opinion. That's a stuffed black poodle she bought from Chok Chai farms with a dancing poodles show, we visited it last year.
In her Werepoodle story, he escaped from the ChokChai farms, where he used to be a show poodle and became the "Werepoodle" which is half poodle and half wolf, and of course comes out and night and scares people. She named it the "Poodle-in." I think she was inspired by Wallace & Grommit's Wererabbit movie. She didn't appreciate our hysterical laughter about her Werepoodle story at first, but I think she doesn't mind it now. She was so serious about it, which made it even funnier and cuter.

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