Happy 11 month birthday Charlie!

This past weekend was Charlie's 11th (month) birthday! Boy does time ever fly! It doesn't seem like he's grown an inch (well, until you go to pick him up, ohmygosh!), but the pictures clearly show that he has indeed grown. He started out so afraid of everything, noise, people, dogs, ugh... going to the dog park has helped him so much, he loves nothing more than to visit with other dogs! He's so gentle and sweet, never unkind, but he does stick up for himself, so don't mess with him, ha ha... He had a birthday weekend of the dog park each day, so today he is quite exhausted! Tomorrow is a pedicure, then Wednesday Dolittles gets more antlers in, woohoooo! A very busy week indeed! This picture was taken when we first went to pick him up, it's the first we had held him and he was very skittish, to think how he was and how he is now, wow, it's a great feeling! In this picture he was a little over three months old - here's wishing you have a wonderful week!

Stay cool my friend!

Whew! With a heat index of 110 today and a heat advisory from noon till 8PM we hope you find a way to stay cool! Charlie does, ha ha... Nothing like a sprinkler unless you're in the water at the dog park! Stay cool and have a great weekend!

Just hangin' out!

Well Charlie has mellowed a great deal in his old age... if he's not curled up in a ball sleeping, he's humped over the sofa arm just hangin' out... there is some construction going on in the neighborhood and that provides him ample entertainment, after all, he's just trying to keep me safe, ha ha... growl......
He does help around the house, he knows how I feel about bugs, inside or out, so he picks them up (and occasionally comes at me with them, omg!), he went to the garage with me today (omg SPIDERS, I swear there is a tarantula living out there somewhere!)... he's very brave. I am... NOT. I hope you get a chance to just hang out today as well! We're going to keep up Charlie's blog until 6/26/10 when he officially becomes a year old. At that time I will incorporate him into my (almost) every day blog... (http://almostdailypic.wordpress.com/) It's been fun! But don't go yet, we still have a little over a month left! Happy trails to you... until we meet again...

Nice day to relax!

Charlie sure has done a lot of growing up since we first got him in November! He used to stay awake ALL DAY, boy have things changed! Now he likes to nap during the day and stay awake at night (heavy sigh)! Today I made Charlie a pillow... he was trying to nap, but with nearby construction, he just had to keep an eye on things... now he's just waiting for Fred to come home... basically, that's what he does for 12+ hours each day... he'll be so happy in a few hours!

A collection of my favorite things...

I discovered the other day, while in the studio trying to paint, that Charlie is a collector... I put his bed out there with me, and one by one he brought his favorite things... his blue chewy from Dolittles, his green doughnut from Hairy Winston, the remains of his bully stick and two antlers... it keeps him very busy... yippeeee!