I might not have looked at how big the bully sticks were on Amazon.
Visiting with Honey again. Olive LOVES her.
Sleepy puppy, big snacks & play date
Category Archives: Pets
Olive, Day 21
She’s so regal-looking here.
She found that napkin on the deck and proudly carried it under the chair and sat on it. I went to take her picture and caught her right as she started to bark at me.
She met Anna’s mom!
And Honey!
Olive, Day 20
Her first dandelion fluff!
Olive, Day 19
Olive, Day 18
Olive, Day 17
This is a mini soccer ball and it’s still bigger than she is!
Olive, Day 16
I’m trying to take fewer photos… Honest.
Sorry – apparently “shorts” don’t embed.
Olive, Day 15
She loves to hide under the ottoman.
YAWWWWWWWN!
Had to post a “work” photo.
I can’t even with the cuteness. And yes, I run on lipstick and sarcasm.
Week 2 Olive video compilation
I thought I was keeping good track of what I’d already posted but…I think I’ve doubled up on some. Oh well.
Olive, Day 14
For the moment, life is perfect. I’m in my egg chair. The weather is 75° with low humidity and it’s shady. Olive has stopped biting my toes and is cuddly. Any bets on how long this will last?
Approximately 32 seconds.
Exploring the deck!
Playing with Honey’s ball!
Playing in the grass! Well, chewing on something in the grass.
Now she’ll suddenly appear behind you!
Mom, I know you get super frustrated with me when I constantly bite your feet (and no one else’s) so I’m gonna fall asleep on you so you still love me.
And another nap…
We taught her to use the stairs today. But she liked chewing on them too much so they got put away!
Olive, Day 13
VIDEO: She has started tugging on toys! And growling!
Mom, my new food bowl is a little big. But it does make me eat slower.
Someone wanted to the sliding door today to tell us she needed to go out!
She found a piece of wood in the grass and carried it around!
Trying to get work done with Olive in my lap. It didn’t go well.
Unfortunately she loves the ottoman feet.
Olive, Day 12
Good morning, Olive! We put a Blink camera on her so we could see when she got up and started moving…and crying. She got up shortly after this to potty and then went back to bed for a bit.
She loves her snuffle mat! We toss food bits in it and she finds them!
And hiding under the ottoman.
And of course napping. (And getting used to a harness.) She’ll actually walk in on her own when she’s tired!
And she loves laying in the sun.
And sleep in weird positions.
Olive, Day 11
When you leave the room for a minute and don’t hear the dog so you rush back in hoping she’s not doing anything bad… Not this time anyway.
Practicing wearing a collar!
nnaOlive, Day 10
Let’s see what she thinks of the front yard…
In this one she looks eerily like Maggie.
Mom I don’t like this. Save me.
I know I shouldn’t let her do this but at least it’s not my toes AND they’re Owen’s shoes.
Sleepy puppy…
And then the next nap…
Tonight she started chasing!
Olive, Day 9 — Happy Mother’s Day
She crawls into her bed when she’s tired.
I posted some pics and a little story (unseen in photo) about Olive in a Boston Terrier Facebook group and got quite a few likes!
Olive, Day 8
Yes these will eventually taper off but right now she is just so damn cute.
Her first trip to the park! She needs to start getting used to her harness and a leash!
Anna let us borrow her cat sweatshirt.
Tell me you have a puppy without telling me you have a puppy.
Week 1 Olive video compilation
Olive, Day 7
Olive, Day 6
Olive, Day 5
She loved her Snuggle Puppy immediately. It is warm and has a heartbeat.
Olive, Day 4 — The kids were home sick…
Which means they got puppy duty so I could get some work done in the office!
Olive, Day 3 — alone with mom!
I’m stuck. Send help! Olive’s first nap of the day…at 8:40am. How am I supposed to get any work done?!
Still napping at 9:04 but moved around a bit.
Okay let’s try to work. I thought I could keep her on my lap while I worked. Ha. Nope. She wanted to be IN MY ARMS. So I tried working with one hand.
And then she woke up and wouldn’t settle so I put her in her crate for about 30 minutes. She whined a lot and then I came out to…A HUGE MESS. (I’ll spare you a photo.) But she had pooped on her pad and walked through it.
So I had to wash her blankets and toys and bed…and give her a bath…which she did not like. I actually did it in a mixing bowl because she’s sooo small and our laundry sink is big.
And then she was cold and wiped out so it was nap time again (12:15).
She’s so cute whole she sleeps. Because puppy.
And look at her teeny feets!
Play time! She loves hair!
Nap time again (1:40).
Mom wants me to chew on this instead of her fingers. Boooooo!
Another nap (3:30).
Owen’s home!
A teething ring bigger than her head!
Tom’s turn!
Look what we discovered?! A perfect black dot — an olive?! — on her hind paw!!
Olive, Day 2
The kids took the overnight shift so were still with her in the morning.
We were trying to keep her awake so she’d sleep more at night…but she was so tired she fell asleep like this:
Introducing…Olive!
I loved Maggie fiercely and was devastated when we had to put her to sleep earlier this year. I knew we’d get another Boston Terrier eventually, but I wasn’t ready quite so soon (just over two months).
Emotionally I was okay but I was really enjoying having NOTHING to take care of (kids don’t really count as they mostly take care of themselves). Tom wasn’t thinking about that—he just wanted a puppy. But guess who’s going to be home with her ALL DAY EVERY DAY?! (You know if I would have told Tom I was getting him a new daily job he would have said oh hell no, right?!)
That said, I did kind of miss having SOMETHING around the house. And she IS super cute…I’ll give her that. This is the first photo we got of her:
We stopped in Normal on the way back and had dinner with Marie and Gabi!
Meeting Anna.
Catsitting!
We stopped in to check on the cats while Anna and David were camping…and we snagged Ash for a proof of life photo!
I never know where I’m going to find these.
I know this will get easier.
I’m still hearing the phantom click clack of Maggie walking around. And hearing phantom scratches at the sliding door.
I still expect to see her laying in the sun on the couch and I still try to throw food scraps to her.
I look for her when I’m preparing to sit on the couch and I expect to see her under my feet.
Every random noise in the house is now never her.
Some moments are easy. Some are getting easier. And some are still unbelievably hard.
Real life, y’all. It ain’t always pretty.
I knew the day I finally blogged about all of the Maggie stuff would be hard. I knew I’d be a bawling hot mess. Which is why I didn’t do it until today, March 3, nine days afterwards.
And, yep, I am.
Puppy talk bartering from both sides.
So tonight we were talking about puppies and Tom and Anna were giddy about it. I was still solidly in the no camp.
David and Tom ran to pick up the boys from the teen center. I told Anna she needs to cool it with Tom and the puppy talk because it’s not happening and she needs to convince him otherwise. She laughs and tells me we’re gonna have a problem because Tom asked her to help try and convince me.
Needless to say I pulled rank on that one. 😀