bad dog!

overall, lily is a super easy and good dog. i would say she annoys me more than ever now that i have a toddler and am really pregnant because she wants attention and i have no energy to give to her. sometimes having her and charlie play is like managing 2 toddlers. he will hit her for no reason so i have to put him in time out, she will play with his most favorite mini basketball without him throwing it to her so i put her downstairs. sometimes he wants to play catch with her but after he throws the ball he is conflicted about whether or not he wants her to actually retrieve the ball. so he will get angry and hit her. if she waits then he looks at her and screams "go dog go"! the poor dog can't win.

bill has had this elephant chair since college. i believe he found it at a rummage sale and his mom had it recovered for him. anyway - the thing has definitely been used and had a few rips in the fabric. lily typically lays on the chair when we are out of the house for the day. she is not a dog that destroys things, but the other day i went downstairs after we got home and found that she had decided to pull the stuffing out of the rips (and make the rips bigger). i was not happy with her and told her she was a bad dog. charlie fully embraced this new phrase and continued to call lily bad dog (with a finger point for good measure) for the rest of the day. i am working on him just gently pushing lily back with his hand when she is in his way and saying "excuse me". we will see if it catches on.

lily feeling guilty...


here is charlie reenacting lily's punishment session.