Thursday, August 11, 2005

The Dog Days of Summer

Benjamin & Henry took some time today to enjoy the sun on their favorite lounge chair.  Sunning themselves is one of their favorite things to do and they make time for it every morning.  Henry almost always lays down as soon as he gets on the chair, but Benjamin likes to look around for a little bit.  But, as you can see from his big yawn, it’s usually not long until he settles down for a little nap.

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Restless Pug

Benjamin has always liked to scratch before he settles down for a nap so we keep a towel on his pillow.  This way he can flip the towel around and get is just right before he finally plops himself down.  The other day he was paticularly restless and having a hard time getting his towel arranged just right.  When he finally settled down he was wearing the towel instead of sleeping on it.

Saturday, August 6, 2005

Henry’s idea of a walk

Weekdays, while on my lunch, I always try to do something fun with the boys to help break up their day and get them some exercise.  Ideally, I like to take them for a walk, but since the it has been so hot and humid outside that is really out of the question.  But, the other day the weather was nice and I thought that we could go for a small walk.  Turns out that Henry had other plans!  As soon as we went outside, Henry found a sunny spot in the yard and wouldn’t budge.  So instead of walking we just sat in the front yard and soaked up the rays.

Monday, July 18, 2005

Cupid Update

The vet called about an hour ago to let us know that Cupid is out of surgery and that they were able to successfully remove the stone.  I think we are all feeling better and I know that everyone will be doing a lot better as soon as we pickup our little girl this evening.

Friday, July 15, 2005

Feeling Blue

Today the boys and I are anxious and nervous.  The boys’ sister, Cupid the cat, is having surgery to remove a stone found in her bladder.

The stone was discovered yesterday after we took her to the vet because we noticed blood in her urine.  After doing an ultrasound the Dr. found a 7mm, free floating stone in her bladder.

Once the stone is removed, Cupid should be feeling much better.  In the meantime, we are sending her positive energy to help her get through the day.

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Do you want fries with that?

Last night we made a run to McDonald’s for dinner.  We always go to the drive thru and bring the food home so that the boys can go with us.  Drive thrus are one of their favorite places to go in the car.

Last night the boys were riding in the back seat using their new seat belts and the back windows were down about 3/4 of the way.  We got to the drive thru, placed our order and pulled up the first window.  We paid the lady and were about to pull up to the next window when she spotted the boys peaking out of the car trying so hard to catch a glimpse inside.  She enthusiastically screamed, “Oh, puppies!” and tried to reach out to pet the boys.  The boys of course were loving the attention.

When we pulled up to the next window, there were about four people standing there waiting to say hello to the boys.  Again the boys were loving the attention and stretching as far out the window as they could.  The next thing I know someone hands a napkin out the window to us.  Inside the napkin is two chicken McNuggets.  The boys’ eyes lit up when they saw and smelled the nuggets.  We let them eat the McNugget in the car and everyone watching from the window, including two managers, got a kick out of watching them eat the McNuggets.

Needless to say, that really made the boys’ night.  It will be interesting to see how they act the next time they go to McDonalds.  I’m sure they will be anxiously waiting for their next McNugget!

Friday, July 8, 2005

Oh, Henry!

Henry has really been enjoying swimming lately - I would even say that he is enjoying it a bit too much.  He is completely confident in his swimming abilities (over confident in my opinion), so he has moved on to other more difficult water related activities.  His latest is jumping in the pool.  He loves to belly flop into the pool swim to the other end, climb out of the pool and then jump back in.

His other new favorite activity is going underwater!  I have no idea why he likes to do this, but while floating on his raft he will just stick his whole head underwater.  I think it first started because he was trying bite and fetch the logo that is silkscreened onto his raft (you know he has a fascination with fetching everything in the water).  Ever since then, it seems like he enjoys sticking his head under the water.

I don’t really think that him going under the water is that good of an idea.  I fuss at him whenever he does it, but I don’t really think I have gotten my point across to him yet.  And I guess if it scared him or if it hurt, he wouldn’t do it so much! 

Regardless, it is safe to say that Henry is definitely an odd bird!

(Oh, and incase you can’t tell that orange blob in the picture is Henry in his lifevest completely under the water)