Quality Little Brother Time

It's hard to get my little brother to hold still, these days.  He is usually speed-crawling around the house, pulling himself up on everything, and scattering his toys about.  Once in a while, he has to sit and drink some milk.  If my human lets him sit by me, she can get him to drink almost the whole thing in one sitting.  I don't mind just hanging out.

Did I mention that my little brother likes to scatter his toys around the house?  He is also nice enough to share them with me, even though I know I'm not supposed to chew on them.  I'll take any attention I can get, so I just go with it.

It's Almost Summer!

Now that it's almost summer, and my human got a new laptop (last month) that isn't painfully slow, it's time to get back to blogging.  We had some hot weather this week.  Luckily my human came home one day with what looked like a giant tub.  My little brother was enjoying it, and I really wanted to cool off in it, but I was also a little suspicious.  It looked a lot like a bath to me.  I enjoyed it after the humans went inside, and I couldn't be tricked into getting clean.  Look at the way that little boy was taunting me!

Yesterday my friend Jet came over and ran around with me for a while.  I was so tired and hot afterwards that I tried to hide out on the cool bathroom tile.  I think my little brother was trying to get me up to play, but I was having none of it.  I slept for the rest of the day!  My human has threatened to shave me this summer, but I have assured her that I can cool off just fine!

Caramel and Cruzan Came to Visit!

My doggie cousins came over to play today!  I don't really know if we're cousins, but our humans insist that we are.  I just play along.  They brought their human, Heather, whom I insisted on jumping all over.  She was wearing black and I needed to coat her in dog hair...as is my custom. 

Cruzan I met last summer, but this was my first time meeting Caramel.  They were both a little afraid of me at first, but in the end, they warmed up to me.  I taunted them with my toys and tried to get them to chase me.  Their legs are so short, that I think I had an advantage.  I had to be careful not to step on them with my big feet.  They both loved my little brother.  Caramel especially loved licking his head.  We didn't really run around all that much, but the excitement of it all wore me out.  I've been napping ever since they left.  I hope they come back to visit soon!

 Checking out what my little brother was chewing on

 

 Caramel and me, cleaning strawberries off his face while our humans were too busy taking the picture to stop us!

 

They approved of the comfy couch.  It put them right at my eye level, so I could tease them more easily.



Fashion Friday

Welcome to my first Fashion Friday post!  My human likes to dress me up, and I don't really mind, as long as I get a treat.  I figured I might as well model some of her outfits. 

 

My human wore this shirt and scarf today, paired with some jeans (which did not fit on my dog body, no matter how hard she tried).  The shirt is actually from Motherhood Maternity, but obviously is a comfortable shirt to wear, even when you're not pregnant.  The scarf is from Target.  It's tied in the back, to make it into an infinity scarf.  I never really saw myself as a pink-wearing dog, but I think this color is flattering on me.

What I Ate Wednesday

This is what I managed to scrounge up off the floor, this week.  I used to not like people food, but I'm acquiring quite the taste for it.

Carrots.  Eh, not my favorite.  In reality, I really just like chewing them into pieces and leaving them all over the floor.

 See that spoon?  It has yogurt on it!  This is why I always hang out by my little brother's high chair while he's eating.  Yogurt is one of my favorite human foods!  I cleaned that spoon off in about 2 seconds.

That is pasta on the floor, in front of my paw.  My human Elise is almost as bad at getting food in her mouth as my little brother is.  I've learned to hang out around her chair while she eats too.

Happy 3rd Birthday to me!

This last Saturday was my 3rd birthday.  My humans made me an extra special dog treat.  They made me pose for a birthday picture before I could eat it, but I could hardly control my urge to grab it right off the table.  This was the best picture they were able to get.  I also got a big fluffy dog bed, which I will have to share a picture of in one of my next posts. 

Saturday was a very stormy day, so we mostly stayed inside, hoping the power didn't go out.  We lost a few tree branches, though, which means that I have some huge sticks to chew on now!  Sunday the weather was better, so my human Elise took me to one of my favorite running trails in town.  I saw lots of other dogs running with their humans too. 

I have been coming up with some posts that I can write on a more regular basis.  Stay tuned later this week for "Conversations with Little Brother," "What I ate Wednesday," and "Fashion Friday."

Holiday Lowdown

We did a lot of traveling over the holidays.  I'm going to give you a quick lowdown to sum up our adventures. 

At the end of November we went down to Oregon for Thanksgiving.  I got to see my friend Mackie one more time, before she moved to SPAIN to be with her permanent human.  I will miss her

 Little Brother started eating more solid food a couple months ago, which means his hands have even more flavor than usual.

 

 

Then a month later, my humans started packing up again, for 9 days of traveling and visiting for Christmas.  The day before we left, we got SNOW!  I loved running around the yard in it, and eating it.  This is a picture of my human trying to get me to come in the house, but I wasn't done playing yet.  *Do not make eye contact.  Do not make eye contact.  Do not make eye contact.*

 

The next day, my humans packed the car to the brim.  I had a little square space to sit in, in the back.  We went back down to Oregon to visit everyone again for Christmas.  This is a picture of Christmas morning.  Little Brother had just as much fun shredding paper as I do.  I was jealous that he was allowed to do it without being scolded.  I'll have to ask him how he got away with that.  

 I still have yet to figure out these "cats" that my grand-humans have and I think my little brother is just as perplexed.

The holidays go by really quickly when you're driving (sleeping in the back of the car) to visit family and soaking up lots of attention from people who you don't see that often.  All of a sudden my human says it's 2014.  I just look at her and smile and nod.  I don't know what that means.  I'm a dog.