It was really nice of the dogs to let Mallory sleep in her bed with them last night.
Category: coops
Cuddle Buddies
Super Coop just turned 11 and Marlo just turned 1. Cooper is so patient when the puppy curls up next to him.
The binder clip near Marlo’s tail is a result of my messy house, not a form of canine punishment.
Marlo of Sportsville
(So I guess I need to change my plan from trying to post monthly to posting seasonally? Well, spring came. And this happened.)
Yes, we got a puppy. Super Coops turned 10 in March and seeing has how we were owed a free puppy from the breeder where we got Cooper (what with his defective elbows and all) we cashed in on that guarantee! In mid-April we checked out some almost five week old puppies and there was one male black lab pup left (out of a litter of 13!). We brought him home May 8th and potty accidents aside, we feel …
Mallory and Cooper
i need to make sure these pictures are somewhere Mallory will always have them. This seems as good a place as any.
I think Cooper thinks he is 20 lbs and not 65 lbs. but either way it is crazy adorable.
Happy Birthday Coops!
Last year when we got close to Cooper’s birthday, I told Mallory we could do a dog-safe cake for him. We got busy and it didn’t happen in 2011. I knew I couldn’t not do it again this year, so we made Coops a peanut butter-carrot-honey-egg cake (with cottage cheese frosting).
Mallory did the garnishes with the cut up carrots. She wanted to use seven candles, but I didn’t really want to use our fancy cake candles in this gross cake, so we went with a single orange twirly candle (to match the orange carrots). It was almost as though …
Swing batter batter…
This glorious fall weather makes you feel guilty for not being outside in it.
So, while Rick took Mallory to dance class, Carson & I played baseball. First he wanted me to pitch to him but he’s not so good with making contact so I talked him to getting the tee (or is it t?). I also got my camera because he was so cute batting. I sat at the end of the slide and took some pictures of my baby boy.
After a few hits, Carson announced that it was his turn to take “peektures” and reached for my [not inexpensive …
My miles
I got a new lens the other day, which meant I wanted to play and play and play with it. Mallory was my semi-unwilling model. Unwilling in the sense that she wouldn’t sit and let me actually practice for reals, but willing in the sense that she would smile while doing her running, because she had to do her “miles” with her jogging stroller.
Pay no mind to the orange V-8 juice mustache.
That’s my iPhone on the front of her stroller so she could have music while did her “miles”.
Oh, and you probably forgot we have a dog. Here he is.
How to clean your dog
Cooper was BEYOND need of a bath, and if you have a dog, you know that the hair from a dog bath is INSANE (especially when you don’t brush the dog regularly…). I refused to let the kids’ bathtub also be the dog washing bathtub, and I FOR SURE wasn’t going to wash him in our bathtub, so Mallory & I took him to the Dog-O-Mat.
Cooper wasn’t very thrilled with being put in the tall bathtub, but lucky for me, they have leash connectors up there so he was tethered in place.
Mallory was supposed to help me, but instead she …
A boy & his dog
Yep, still working on that post about our new house.
But here’s another peek…
The other night I couldn’t find the dog anywhere. He’s usually asleep somewhere in my room while I slave away over my computer editing pictures. We have baby gates up so I know he didn’t go downstairs and then I noticed both of the kids doors were open.
I grabbed the flashlight and looked in Mallory’s room first – only things on the floor in there were the piles and piles of clothes I need to go through and put away.
Next up was Carson’s room…and there, …
A girl and her dog
Mallory must have really missed Cooper while we were away on our trip. Our whole day traveling home, she kept asking what was going to happen when we got home. I told her we’d get to snowy Michigan, then go get my car from Grandpa’s and then go home. But she would ALWAYS insert “and we have to get COOPERS from grandpa’s house!!”.
She’s never before expressed an interest in the dog sleeping in her room but I offered it to her as a treat (I was grasping at anything to try to get her to go right to bed!), …