Paton's Growing by Leaps and Bounds!

Paton has more than tripled her size in the past month or so. Shortly after Christmas, when we took her to the vet, she weighed only 10 pounds. Now, she's up to 35!!!

Here she is the day we got her: December 23, 2006. 10 pounds.

February 1, 2007. 35 pounds.

She still believes she's a lapdog, though, and loves to curl up in people's laps.

Isn't she beautiful? We had to make some pretty strange sounds to get her to look at the camera.

It's an Alaska Bum! (Leslie doesn't wear those kind of hats very often, so of course the rare occasion warranted a picture.)