early start dog walker

Naomi’s first dog walk in her second week of life. She was walking the dogs in the womb, so we figured she may as well get started outside the womb right away. Age: 11 days

2012 family photo: mom, dad, mickey, kayloo and bump (before)

One more photo from our photoshoot with Maria… Our family in 2012 before + 1 made 5.

bambino vs fido: on loving dogs less

Over the last several months I’ve been having conversations with people about my dogs and how they are going to do when the baby arrives. For the record I think Kayloo is going to practically twist her head off tilting it this way and that with every coo, gurgle and squeal. I think she will tap [...]

fido workin’ the bib

My mom sent some baby stuff to us last week and one of the little outfits came with a little bib. The little bib has a giraffe on it, can you see it? Omg so cute. John put the bib on Mickey. I told my mom… she didn’t approve (“oh, that is so wrooong!”). What’s not [...]

man and his dogs

End of the day with the dogs. Bliss.

still sleeping

This is Mickey’s little paw and the tip of his scruffy tail. Slowly, slowly these little paws are spending more time with John and less time with me. So are Kayloo’s. We think it’s probably a good idea for the dogs to get used to getting less of my attention because when the baby crashes this [...]

doing the dirty work

Mickey models while Kayloo helps John in the background. John is setting his watch before doing sit ups, push ups etc in the hallway and Kayloo figures she’s hit the jackpot because John is RIGHT THERE within licking distance for whole minutes at a time. Mickey thinks exercise is overrated.

priorities

You know when you are fully aware that encouraging certain activities is a COMPLETELY bad idea but you do it anyway because it’s entertaining? Yeah, letting two goofy dogs play fight through a defenceless screen door would fall under that category. But it was funny. And I made them stop right away… after I got [...]

don’t worry, mickey…

Don’t worry, Mickey. We’ll still love you when the baby comes… (and your crazy sister too…)

some changes around here

He’s cute, sure. But this little furball can also be a gigantic pain in the ass. There are some changes that have to happen around here with my dogs before this baby arrives at the end of March. That is the kind of thing my dad would say when my brother and I were kids, [...]