so, i made a very impulsive decision 2 years ago when i purchased our second dog-yogi. i went to pick up a dog for my brother-in-law who wanted a relative of my dog grizzly because he is sooooooooo good. so, i went and lo and behold, there are cute soft adorable puppies everywhere needing homes. yogi (my dog) was the only black lab in the chocolate lab litter. she was teeny, soft, cuddly and i felt bad for her. drove home with the two dogs. yogi barked the whole way. i probably should have known then, we were gonna be enemies. but dang she was cute. and oh my gosh, the little puppies bumbling in the snow and trying to fall asleep on grizzly-if you heart didn't melt from that you didn't have one. well, as time went on, she became quite boisterous. she's very good mind you, she does not eat anything in our house. she has not caused any damage minus chewing the patio table once. she is just generally annoying with her barking at innocent passers by, following you everywhere, wanting to jump on guests and there is the general bark for no reason-my personal favorite. i'm sure she heard something miles away and is just protecting us in her own way, but man does it make my blood boil especially if i'm trying to get the baby asleep.
so, i put liam to bed last night. within probably three minutes, yogi wants to go out and lets our her loud bark. i freeze waiting to hear if it woke the baby. normally it won't, but it will if he JUST fell asleep. baby screaming. i'm positively furious at this point. i tell richie she's out-similiar to marley's mom that wanted to send him to the farm. i don't REALLY want to, but at the moment i did. anywho, huff and puff up the stairs and give liam a bit of milk to calm him down and fall back asleep. i'm holding the bottle trying to not look at liam all pissed off-it's not his fault. standing there standing there, and i hear a dog coming. ugh-i'm gonna get this kid to sleep and now he's gonna wake up from your freakin talons on the hard wood floor. dad's coming now which means other dog and eagle like talons are coming. are you kidding? can't i just get my sweet baby to sleep? deep breath. still standing over his crib giving him the end of a bottle, and i notice this kid is surrounded. all the way around his crib-he's got one hand sticking out petting yogi who ironically has turned out to be my kids best, sweetest, gentlest friend. i'm next holding a bottle. grizzly is just sitting looking through sending nice grizzly sleepy thoughts. and dad is smiling rubbing his foot. i start laughing-but not too hard otherwise liam will catch the giggles and forego sleep. anyway, i'm laughing because we have this crazy family that can literally drive each other nuts and are really the cause of each other's stress, but this is it. this is our family, this is what we do. we stress each other out with our barks, and nags and cries and messes, but we all group together to get the baby asleep and i'm not sure liam would have it any other way.
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