Bad Blossom!

It's hard to imagine that this cute little face could be so...

Evil!

When Gabby moved in, Blossom decided she didn't want the competition for attention.  Who was this new family member anyway?  

Within a few days, several items from Gabby's room turned up missing and were found outside...chewed by Blossom.

It was a sad, sad day when Gabby found one of her very favorite shoes outside.  It was her birthday shoe from her 9th birthday party.  

Hard to imagine one little puppy could do so much damage.

The damage was followed by tears...lots and lots of tears.

She told me how special the shoe was, and how many times she wore it.  She knew every memory linked to that very special shoe.

So we decided to make a memorial out of the shoe before we bought a replacement.

One chewed up shoe + one sharpie = a piece of memorabilia.

Gabby told me all her memories of the shoe, and we wrote them on the shoe, then the shoe hung on a nail in her closet for the past 5 months.

Today she was cleaning out her closet and was ready to get rid of it, so we snapped some photos so we could remember.

Good-bye birthday shoe, that reminds Gabby of Jan, school, swimming with friends, dress-up with Joie, dress-up, and Bad Blossom!

But in Gabby's words, "She's so cute that you can't stay mad at her."  

(The picture of Blossom was taken by Megan a few months ago.)