It's not often that Baxter gets an entire blog post about him.....until he proved that maybe he really is smarter than the average dog.Baxter has a habit, one that we really really love, of barking at things that go past the house. He'll bark at the little old lady walking her dog, or the parents strolling their baby down the street, or the kids walking outside....you get the idea. We usually go to the door to see what he's barking at, it gets him to stop barking, and sometimes it's quite entertaining to see the object that sets off his bark. A lot of times, he's barking at nothing...noises can cause a bark too.
So yesterday, Baxter decided to bark. Roo and mommy went to the door to see what he was barking at. We looked and didn't see anything...not a second later, we turned around and there he was eating Roo's pizza.
Yeah, premeditated barking to thief the pizza......hmmm.....old dog, new trick!
Roo has dropped his afternoon nap on weekends. He's actually much less grumpy without it and it frees up the entire day to do things; it's nice! However, he still gets a little tired and needs a break now and then. On this day he chose Love Bug's swing as his resting location. And as we all recall, Roo was very addicted to the swing when he was an infant.....we didn't let him stay in it for long, would hate to have to break that habit again!
The boys birthday presents came early this year. Mommy had a coupon and we wanted to get the boys a playset. Roo loves to slide so we thought it was time to get him his very own big boy slide. So Dada spent the entire weekend putting together the playset and it looks great. The slide is so much fun, mommy can't wait for it to warm up so she can go on it more. Roo loves it and actually closes his eyes when he starts to go down. This should make for a fun filled summer! Now all we need is the sun and some warm weather!
We tried to get Roo to play outside first thing this morning. He would have nothing of it. He hated having to put on boots and of course argued about putting on his heavy winter coat and hat. And lets not even talk about his mittens. So he went outside with mommy for just a few minutes and then quickly returned inside for some hot cocoa.
Later, dada went outside to shovel the driveway and somehow mommy was able to get Roo all dressed for outside, mittens and all (though mommy cheated and let him wear his fleece instead of his heavy winter coat). He wasn't so sure about the snow at first and he didn't like that he couldn't actually hold things very well with the mittens on. Eventually the mittens came off and he proceeded to be daddy's little helper and helped shovel the driveway and had lots of fun in the snow.
Love Bug also got a chance to see the snow. He hung out with mommy for a few minutes and enjoyed looking around at the pretty trees and watching dada and Roo shovel.
It was great having an extra day to play with the kiddos. And for Baxter, what a special treat it is for him when it snows. He is definitely a snow dog and loves every moment of playing outside in the snow, having snow shoveled on him, and eating the snow. Now that we've enjoyed the snow, we're ready for the warm weather.