She's No Angel!

We really love our little Toni -- but she sure is no angel!

Yesterday was a dreary rainy day so I was a little bored and put Happy's angel costume on Miss Toni. The top photo is of Toni (age 9) and the bottom photo is of Happy when she was around 9 years old.

Toni has been very silly lately and we think her true basenji personality is starting to come out. She is now fully comfortable exploring in the house. She figured out how to use a chair to climb onto the kitchen table and then climb up a shelf to get a bully stick. She would have gotten away with it if she hadn't knocked down a bowl of jelly beans making a large crash. I guess basenji's do not like jelly beans as no one ate these.

She is also getting more tolerant of Calvin and the two of them have been wrecking havoc in the living room. When Toni runs she is like a bulldozer and knocks over everything in her path!!! She bulldozed the living room rug under the coffee table. And then bulldozed over a small folding table I was using to do my crafts. Nothing fazes her! Well, nothing except for Happy. After Toni knocked over the table Happy got out of her bed (which had also been pushed under the coffee table with poor Happy in it along with the rug). Happy went right over to Toni and Calvin and let them have it with a loud crow-like squawk. Calvin and Toni looked absolutely mortified and each one quietly retired to their sleep spots. After Happy scolded the "goons" there were no more shenanigans that night.

Oh, and yesterday Toni bulldozed all the covers and pillows off of my bed!!! Calvin was very intrigued by such bold naughtiness. The only difference between he and Toni is that when he is bad he knows it and has a sneaky smirk on his face. Poor Toni clearly has no idea what she is doing is wrong and always looks so surprised when I yell or laugh at her (I often find myself doing both!). :)