Sad dog

The dog got in trouble the other day for doing what he does best.....eating cookies. Yep almost a whole batch of chocolate chocolate chip cookies that Kayla had made. He doesn't get sick from doing this which just blows my mind! But apparently he was mad at JR for busting him. So instead of trying to get luvin' from him, he had to come to me. Which, just for the record, I am not his "go-to" person for that. But check out these pictures and you can see what a baby he was being!

Yep he squeezed his butt up on the chair with me and hung on for dear life until I had to get up! And where is his face pointing? To JR! I think he was trying to rub it in his face!

Two little love dogs

Yep, it's official, the dog has a girlfriend! He went MIA the other day. He was nowhere in the house. Eli was helping me make mini-meatloaves so you would expect a dog to be right there at his feet praying for a bit of meat to fall. Nope. He wasn't there. So I put my head out the back door to call the dog and glance over to the neighbors yard. Yep, you guessed right, that is where he was! Dust had been kicked up from him obviously running and coming to a screeching halt! So we fix the fence and figure it would be all taken care of. Then this morning, again gone for quite some time. He's over there again! Oh geez I hope this dog is fixed because Mal is not! Those would be some ugly puppies! And as a side note, the vet isn't keen on doing it at this point because of Mal's age. Anyways, I send Eli out there to get the dog and Mal just hops over the broken part of the fence like it's nothing! The kids and I had a few errands to run so we were gone for about 4 hrs or so. When we get home, I go to let the dog out and this is what I am greeted by......

That's the dog from next door! Apparently she got tired of waiting for Mal to go over there so she decided to come to our backyard! I can only imagine their conversation through the door while we were gone. Who knows how long she was back there! She really is a cute and sweet dog! It is a very weird feeling to open your door to find an animal that doesn't belong there. It took me a minute to process what I was seeing!

He is saying "Puhleeeease let me go out and play"

I kid you not, this dog was licking the door and nosing it. I think it's puppy love....

The good news is that I did find out this evening that she is fixed. We never really see the people that live in that house because we all keep different schedules. But one of them happened to be home and outside and were able to confirm that she is not able to have puppies! Phew!

Sleeping

As I took all the pictures off my camera this evening I happened to notice there were several pictures of sleeping people. I guess I was just enjoying the quiet time so much I decided to snap pictures! Just kidding! Once you see these pictures you will see why I took them!

Emma with her baby Sarah sleeping on her chest. And only 2 blankets instead of the 5+ she was sleeping with every night during the summer!

My little snuggle bug Hailey. She still loves to be swaddled for sleeping at night.

Yep, she is sleeping like that. If she gets fussy all JR has to do is put her near his face and talk softly to her and it usually settles her right down. This time, it settled her so much she fell asleep!

Eli and Mal....the dog really thinks he is human. He was on his back and snuggling up in Eli's neck!

Eli rocked her to sleep this morning while I was in the shower. Big brothers rock! Oh and just look at how much she looks like him!

Here we go again

Well Malice did it again! He managed to break the cartilage in his other ear this time. This dog is a mess these days! He is on prednisone for allergies and hives, Cephalexin for infected hives that he has scratched until they become a sore, and an additional dose of the Cephalexin to make sure his ear doesn't get infected! Oy! So since his ear has to be doctored again, he has to wear the dreaded cone so he can't scratch at it. But don't think that stops him from trying! There is nothing like the sound of claws against that plastic at midnight! Oh and since the prednisone didn't take care of all the hives, he is probably going to have to do another round of it and then go on a regular allergy medicine. It's like having a 5th child.

For some reason he thinks it is OK to sleep on the couch all of the sudden. And not only does he just get on the couch at his leisure, he lays on the back cushion pushing it forward.

Oh and it is almost as though the cone acts as a sound barrier for him. You can yell at the top of your lungs and he still won't hear you until you get right in his face and talk INTO the cone.

Silly Dog!

I was just loading pictures on to my computer from my camera and found these 2 pics....

Not sure who took the pictures but they made me laugh because this captures true Malice behavior. That is a cereal bar (most likely belonging to Emma because she would eat those things all day long if we let her) and he is actually behind the table between it and the wall. The first picture is the "I am ignoring it" look of his. The second is seconds before he decides to just go for it! And the really funny thing is that he was probably stalking it for quite some time before finally snatching it!

And my original reason for wanting to post was to show you all just how much Eli loves his dog. I found Eli tugging and tugging to get the blanket he is covered with out from under the dog. And lazy Mal just would not budge...the dog continued laying there the entire time as though he were dead! So instead of kicking the dog off the bed as most of us would do, Eli got down on the floor to sleep so the dog didn't have to move!

Ewwwww Emma!

She got awful quiet this evening and I kept hearing a noise like the dog being at his water bowl. Went to check it out finally and this is what I found.....

Notice the "floaties" in the water...apparently she added those for some flavor! Not sure why she decided to drink his water out of nowhere but she did again after her bath! So apparently we have to keep it put up until she loses interest again!

Conehead

Leave it to our dog Mal....I have never heard of this before but he broke the cartilage in his ear from shaking his head and therefore broke a blood vessel which had to be drained. The cause of the head shaking....an ear infection. I suppose that is the advantage to cropping a pit's ears. This drain contraption has to be in for 3 weeks! So in what started as an innocent car ride this afternoon, ended in a whiney cone head of a dog! Can't say I blame him for not being very happy about the whole thing. Now the funny part for those of us not wearing a cone is watching him try to navigate the house. We don't have a very big house with open space so it can be a bit challenging at times. And this cone is HUGE! He gets it stuck on the floor on the carpet and on just about anything in his path. At first it was like he just gave up and figured he would stand there until either we moved him or the object moved but he is getting the hang of it now. The "just a little bit funny" part of it is that Emma is terrified of the whole thing! If he so much as touches her with the cone you would think he bit her! So she is currently sitting behind me on the couch eating her chicken because he ran into her foot with the cone and she wouldn't quit crying until I rescued her. The next three weeks should prove interesting.....

I have some pictures but keep in mind that there is blood involved so it looks a little gross.....you have been warned! :)

See that poor me face? So sad!

Kayla feeling sorry for the dog

Eli feeling sorry for the dog

And this is Emma after the dog touched her....so scared.....