Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Caption This #52

Road trip!  Looking forward to your captions in the comments!

Monday, April 14, 2008

Bedfellows

The pugs sleep in bed with us at night, which other than the fact that they take up so much room, works out OK most nights.  My main problem with them sleeping on the bed is when they settle before I have a chance to take the throw pillows off the bed.  They would much prefer if I left the throw pillows on the bed at night because they love to sleep in them.  It is like rows of pug sized body pillows.

So every night it is a mad dash to get the pillows off the bed before the pugs settle, otherwise, I have to move them and I just had to disturb them when they look so cozy.

Our other bedtime issue is that little Luna hates to be moved once she has fallen asleep.  She moans and groans if you even move her an inch.  One day I will get a little video of her acting like the world is ending when I move her a tad so that I can get my whole body on the bed.  She can be quite dramatic!

Friday, April 11, 2008

Little Girl

I’m not sure how well the size of Benjamin, Henry & Luna is conveyed through the pictures, but there is quite a size difference between Luna and Henry.  Henry isn’t quite as stocky as most pugs and neither is Luna.  We always joke that Luna has really long legs for her size.  But Luna is not very long at all.  Henry is a little scrunched up in the photo and he still is considerable longer than Luna.

When we first adopted Luna and saw how small she was I was really nervous that the boys would hurt her while they were all playing.  Benjamin & Henry have been together since they were 12 and 13 weeks old so they romp and stomp like brothers.  They can get quite rough.  When Luna got in the mix, I was so nervous that they would hurt her and then I saw her play.  Well, needless to say I have no worries about her.  If anything, she might end up hurting one of the boys.  Her biggest advantage while playing with the boys is that she is faster then them.  So if she ever gets in a jam she takes off running and tires them out making them try to catch her.  She doesn’t hesitate to jump right over either one of them and she uses every ounce of her body weight to her advantage.  It is quite funny to watch my big boys get out played by the little girl.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Got your back

When Benny sits he likes to lean on things.  He’ll prop himself up against a wall, the arm of the sofa, the cabinets, a pillow, you name it.  He has even started using Henry as a back rest!

To Benjamin this is heaven - laying in the yard, taking in the smells, listening to the birds chirp and having a brother to lean against.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Caption This #51

For this week’s Caption This we have Henry in the bin that Benny has claimed for himself.  Looking forward to seeing your captions in the comments.

Monday, April 7, 2008

Rainy Weekend

Benjamin, Henry & Luna didn’t get to do anything fun this weekend because we got rain, rain and more rain.  We got up early on Saturday morning to cut the grass and do some yard work.  After we finished up the pugs played a bit in the yard, but then it started to rain and it rained for the rest of the weekend.

So, they caught up on their beauty rest and lounged about the house.  They didn’t really mind that it was raining except when it was time to go potty.  Then Benjamin and Luna were miserable.  I tried to do my best and take them out when it was only sprinkling as opposed to when it was pouring down rain, but they didn’t get so lucky on Sunday night.  There just was no break in the rain.  I have never seen Benjamin & Luna poop so quick before.

Even though the weather sucked, I enjoyed the weekend.  We really needed the rain and sometimes it is nice to have an excuse to spend the weekend lounging around the house.

Friday, April 4, 2008

It’s Funny Now - Luna’s Face Plant

The boys’ birthdays got us reminiscing about old times and thinking about all the crazy things that we have done with the pugs over the years.  The things that seemed to be the most memorable were the embarrassing moments or the times when our parenting just wasn’t up to par.  So, I thought I would share some of these stories over the next couple of weeks.  If I have any pics I will share them too, but I don’t think I have too many pictures of these events as I am glad that most of them went undocumented.

Luna’s Face Plant

Adopting Luna was a very exciting time for us.  We were literally giddy with excitement and we couldn’t wait to welcome the little girl into the family.  Part of welcoming her into the family, for us, was to take her to do all the things that we enjoyed doing with the boys.  One of those things was going to the beach.

So, shortly after we adopted her, we made plans to go to the beach.  When we arrived at the beach, we went for a little walk along a boardwalk trail.  A walk that the boys had been on a countless number of times.  But, watching Luna learn her way around made the walk new again.  At the end of the boardwalk path is steps leading down to the beach.  The boys know this and this is usually when they get most excited because they can’t wait to get to the beach.  In all our excitement to get to the beach we all start to run.  The boys hit the stairs at a full sprint and Luna, feeding off the energy of her brothers, is not far behind.  We are almost to the bottom of the steps and I notice that the last step is going to be a big jump as the ocean has washed away much of the sand and now the steps don’t quite go all the way down to the sand anymore.  No problem.  It is certainly not a huge jump, it is just a bit longer so it breaks the momentum.  The boys see the difference and make the leap to the beach.  Luna doesn’t and she lands smack dab on her face.  We make the jump, pull her up out of the sand only to see that her face is covered in sand and so are her eyes.  The little girl never even blinked.

At this moment, we realize that the water we brought is in the truck.  So, one of us stays behind to try and wipe the worst of the sand off her face, while the other sprints to the truck to get the water so that we can flush her eyes.

We get the sand out of her eyes and Luna is really no worse for the wear.  She is ready to start running around on the beach.  But it is at this moment, that I start looking around because I am certain that someone is about to come take Luna from us.  She has been with us all of maybe three days and look how we are treating her.  Clearly we are not fit.

This was our wake up call to Luna’s vision issues.  We found out the hard way that the girl really can’t see all that well.  It was a process learning how Luna sees the world.  Over time we found out that Luna doesn’t really see that well looking down and that she can’t see much of anything at night.  After the face plant incident, we took things a lot slower with Luna as we had to figure out what she can and can’t see.

It was a wake up call for us and made us realize all of the things that we took for granted with the boys.

To this day, every time we go to the beach, I think about Luna sticking her head in the sand.  Lucky for us they let us keep her!