Random Dog Cuteness
Never did post about the Chis stay with my Mom and Dad, did I? I should. But anyway, they’ve been more than usual cute since I got back from Savannah, or else I just really missed them hard and everything they do is cuter as a result.
Chelsea has solidified her new behavior of lurking for me outside the shower. Each night I go into the bathroom, throw my clothes on the floor and get into the shower. Each night I open the shower curtain and see petite la Chelsea curled up in my discarded clothing, looking up at me like “What? It smells like you!” Then when I step out of the shower she flees in a panic, because while she wants to be close to me and my scent, the thought that I might try to, you know, TOUCH her, sends her into a mini-panic. Then she comes back and sits by me while I do my hair, crying for attention. Depending on my mood it’s either adorable or irritating. But every time I see her curled up in my discarded clothes, looking up at me with her ginormous googly eyeballs, I have a serious “awwww!” moment.
Jake has realized that even when I am otherwise engaged I have a tendency to kick out at anything that attacks my feet, so he’s now taken to skulking under my computer desk and pouncing on them unexpectedly, in order to get me to pet his belly with one. He’s much better at training me to exhibit his desired responses than vice-versa.
The dogs have been banished to sleeping on the floor due to the “Reclaiming the Bed as a Territory of Jake in a Really Inappropriate Way at 10 p.m. on a night when Susan has been Driving for Thirteen Hours, Dammit.” incident. But that’s been going surprisingly well. Some niceness (ahhh… stretching out in own bed) and some not-so-niceness (Jake refuses to sleep if he’s not in the bed, so he runs around chasing Chelsea all night and they tend to be frazzled in the morning and then sleep all day. Also PB wakes me up crying every night and after that I have a hard time getting back to sleep. Also no cuddles.) But we’re adjusting. Sometimes I wake up to the sight of two pointy ear-tops and the top of a round-domed head pogoing impatiently next to the bed (that’s Jake) and it makes me laugh.
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