Friday, November 5, 2010

It's a Boy!

Ernie would like you all to meet his little brother, Oliver Angus MacDuff.  Born July 2, 2010.
  Ollie, for short. 
 He is a mixed breed, Yorkie & Affenpinscher. 

  Really, he is just a devil in a 4lb package and has kept us all on our toes.

 
Ernie has nicknamed him "the little black bastard" and speaking for both the SF and myself, we might have to agree!  Just look at that face! 

He arrived this past Saturday....really? Has it only been 6 days. I think we both feel as if we've run a marathon. From the minute he hits the floor in the morning, until he FINALLY crashes in the evening, it is Go...Go....Go!  That is, IF he crashes because there have been a couple of nights that he has woken us up every hour on the hour.

While Ernie was not, and occasionally remains, unimpressed, he seems to have found a playmate at his own level.  There have been much ping-pong battles, theft of squeaky stuffed animals, bone munching, tug-o-wars on a fox tail and tag games happening in the household. 



 And needless to say, with ALL of that exercise, there have been many naps.  
 


  

(Look at sweet Ernie sharing his bed with his little bro. Now he knows what it feels like to sleep with a bed hog.)  There have also been first car rides, first visits to the vet who instantly poked him with needles and stuck Q-tips in his ears.  Ollie has indicated he's not too sure about that place.  He also went for a walk on the beach with Ernie and his new buddy from down the road, Cabby.  That was a bit of a gong show.  Between balancing three dogs, a shoe lace that wouldn't stay tied, over dressed dogs who wanted to shed their Macintosh coats so they could be set free, too many gloves, scarves, cameras and an attempt to outrun a fellow dog walker and his three rather large looking boxers.  Well, let's just say that our first foray to the park turn a usually stress relieving walk into a stress inducing one.  It'll get better, right Itchy?

There have also been a few reported incidents of spooning.....I'm just sayin'

I wonder if this means that I have to change the name of the blog?