We can't say this enough: we absolutely looooove our new home. Not only did our mama find the best walking path for us in the morning (we go past a little river and walk around a fun little park with lots of trees and smells!) but there is so much to explore in this place. For example, we have a great fireplace that we can snuggle near (if it ever gets cold again, of course) and we also found a small space between our couch and the wall where our mama has put a comfy blanket for when one of us (mostly Izzi) wants to go hiding just a little bit. 
Also, there's a lot of space to walk and run around and Rozi loves to run around and around and around the place: through the kitchen, then the dining space, then the living room, then the hallway, then the kitchen, then the dining space, then.... Well, you get the picture. It's good exercise and also lots of fun (for Rozi, anyway).
There are stairs that we can go up and down at night time and in the morning, so we are sure to give our hamstrings and quads and biceps and triceps a good workout, which is an excellent way to end or start our day. And, because our mama wants to be sure that we "don't get into any trouble upstairs", she puts a little wall on the stairs when she's not here, which reminds us that we're supposed to stay on the main floor, which is great because we have all the things we just talked about and a great blue blanket to lie on and a cozy puppy bed that we like to crawl in and an oh-so comfortable grey bed that we can sprawl out on. So, as you can see, staying on the main floor when our mama isn't here is fine with us.
But...
Today, our mama was leaving the house and - as usual - put the little wall up on the stairs to remind us that we had lots of things to do and lots of places to nap on the main floor while she was out. She said goodbye to us and she was off (probably to get us some treats and ingredients for a yummy dinner) and shut the door. Now, this is pretty normal thing at this point and even though we get sad when our mama leaves, we've learned that when she says 'goodbye' and closes the door, we have to be good girls and not bark (Rozi) or whine (Izzi) too much and just wait for her to come back. With all the great places to relaaaax while she's gone, the time passes quickly as we pine away for her.
And, yet.
Today, when our mama left, she didn't see that Izzi had come upstairs with her as she got ready to leave and so when she put up the little wall, Izzi was still upstairs and so when our mama left and Izzi came to say goodbye, Izzi saw she could not get down the stairs! As little as Izzi is, she could still not squeeze through the wall (remember the time she had a "great escape" at out old house? That was great!). So, she had to just be a good girl (she was) and wait for a really long time to be rescued. It could have been a few months or an hour (we're not great with elapsed time) and while she waited like a good girl, Rozi did the only thing she could: she slept on the floor.
Finally, after a few years (or a couple of minutes) passed, Izzi was discovered and rescued and got to be back with Rozi, which made Rozi very happy (not so much for Izzi, who is not prone to display her emotions as easily as her little sister).
So, now Izzi is recovering from this experience and is happy that she didn't have any plans for this Sunday, since it will maybe take a while for her to feel better about what happened. As we have said, there are so many places to rest and contemplate our lives, it's easy to do some puppy meditation and feel less bad about the whole thing. Also, we have relatively small brains so Izzi will have forgotten about this within the next few minutes (or months; like we said, we're not good with understanding units of time). She knows that our mama did not do this on purpose and so there was no question that she'd forgive our mama.
We'll now spend the rest of the day in quiet contemplation, and focus on what our mama is planning for our dinner.
Arf, Yip, Yip, Yip,
Izzi & Rozi
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