April 10, 2010

  • Bustery things.

    Well, this morning, Buster was watching Austin play in the living room and jumped up on the kiddie-gate that keeps him out of that room.. (like this-this was last weekend when he was watching Austin get into his Easter basket-he was dying to get over there and see what the hoopla was about!)

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    The thing he doesn't realize, (yet anyway) is that he could probably get over it if he tried hard enough.  He is getting huge.. probably 70 pounds now, but such a puppy and sooo sweet.

    Anyway, this morning, his foot got caught in the tension bar, and he was crying out. Chris was right there and helped him get it out, and he even wimpered when Chris was helping him.  There is something sooo sad about a dog that's crying in pain. At the time I thought, wow, that's almost worse than a child crying.  I know!  Can you believe I said that?!  I think just the actual sound they make is sooo sad.  Poor Buster.  He's fine, though.  No injury or anything.

    Last week, we took Buster to Lake Camanche for a couple of hours to see if he would swim. (I already posted some of these pics on FB, but my in-laws don't do FB, so I'm going to post them here again.)

     He pawed at it a little bit, at first.

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    After pawing at it and checking it out, I guess his instinct took over and before he knew what he was doing, he had walked out and swam about 5 feet.  Then, like a lightbulb came on, he paddled in a U-turn and came flailing back for the shore.  Like he suddenly thought, what am I doing?  It was kind of funny!  The closer he got to shore, he started trying to walk on the bottom, making his feet splash like crazy!

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    He fetched sticks the rest of the time and loved it, but if they went too far out, he would walk out as far as he could without starting to swim, and stop and wait for them to drift back in.  He did actually swim a tiny bit to get the stick a couple of times but wasn't sure about it.. Think he kind of scared himself. 

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    He and Austin loved kicking around the lake.  And it was a beautiful day for it.

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    Austin's really into wearing his pj's everywhere.

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     They were both worn out on the way home!  We even passed the little antique church where we got married. Almost 5 years ago!    Such a pretty day.

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    And one parting picture.. "MOMMY!! Take my picture with Buster!!"  Buster's not looking so sure!

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