Who is in charge?

Charlie turned 12 weeks old yesterday and he is already over 20 pounds. That's almost double in size since we got him. He is now officially a pain in the butt as well. He has decided that he does not want to eat when we put his food down. No, he only eats on his own time. We tried tricking him into eating by putting a treat in his food dish, but he just eats the treat out. Only after 30 minutes of play time will he think about going back to finish his meal. What a stinker! He also likes to go outside to sniff and eat the grass. He has discovered something very tasty right under one of our trees and he will make us take him out just so he can try to eat it. I tried to tell him "NO!" yesterday and he took a giant bite of my hand. I guess he's finally realized that he runs the place around here and he can get away with it because he's so cute.

Here's a picture from his visit to Troy yesterday.


















Charlie with his Nouna Andrea.

Charlie Blog Pictures

I never actually posted the link for Charlie's professional pictures. It's amazing how much he's changed since these pictures were taken. His legs have gotten so much longer and so has his body. He's super stretch dog now!

Anywhoo.... here's the link for the pictures.

http://www.mod4proofs.com/pickpic/gallery/splash.php?gallery_id=336

The password is: puppy

More pictures

Charlie's a bit of a pain today. He is very jumpy and bitey... trust me, those are words when it comes to referring to dogs. I was petting him earlier and he was doing great, and then he just lunged at my face and got my nose. It's not that he ever bites when he lunges, but he keeps his mouth open and inevitably his teeth find out skin... and that hurts. Especially yesterday morning when he nailed me right in the lip that I cut open playing softball on Thursday.

Anyway, here are some cute pictures of him which is why we forget about him being a pain in the butt sometimes and still love him.

This was taken last night. He was sleeping in his favorite spot and he just looked so cute!

I took this of Charlie under our dining room table because I know that he's not going to fit under there for too much longer.

Charlie got this ball in the mail from his Aunt Katie. He keeps hoping that she'll come visit and play fetch with him.

I enjoy Jim's face in this one. He was getting into it! Charlie loves playing tug!

Charlie couldn't understand why Pete kept going outside and not taking him. Or maybe he just wanted the steaks on the grill.

Charlie laying in his favorite spot again... also right near his food.

Trip to Petsmart

Pete and I took Charlie to petsmart today to socialize him and to wear him out. He had fun even though we kept him in the cart since he still doesn't have all of his shots. He met lots of nice people and got yummy treats. He also got his nails cut for free. He hasn't been as happy to let pete and I cut them for him...

Here's a picture in the cart.






-- Post From My iPhone

Back to the Future

Today Charlie was eating something and wisely climbed under our kitchen table to hide from me. Of course, we always know when he has something he shouldn't because he looks guiltier than a high school student texting in class. Plus he immediately runs and hides. Way to be slick Charlie!

Today, as I climbed under the table to retrieve what he had found, I was shocked to find a movie ticket. Now yes, we see lots of movies, so it's not that unbelievable for him to find his way to a movie ticket. But what was odd, was that it was to The Saint. This ticket was to the Star Rochester back on May 2nd, 1997. This was my sophomore year in high school. Where in the world did he find this movie ticket? How did this ticket stay with me so long?

My only guess was that recently he was near my HTML 4 book that I have laying around. Yes, that's how cool I am, I have a HUGE book on HTML that I bought in high school. We actually pulled it off the book shelf because we are going to recycle it. I'm guessing that I was using this movie ticket as some sort of bookmark, but I'll never know. Only Charlie will know where that ticket came from and how it came to be in his tight grip of his jaw.

I also just had to venture into the kitchen because Charlie was barking ferociously and came to find me to show me what he had done. He loves to attack his water dish. I'll never know what kind of evil things it must do to him when we aren't looking. He splashed it all over the kitchen and then pulled it into the carpeted hallway. This was when he decided to bark and bark at it, showing that water dish who the boss truly is.

I sometimes think that the only reason he splashes his water everywhere is to play with the towel that inevitably comes to clean it up. His favorite game is to attack the towel as soon as we try to soak up the ocean that has become our kitchen floor. I held him back best I could, while getting my wrist chewed on, and cleaned it up. Our kitchen towels are getting much more use in the last month.

Swimming!

Here's Charlie and Pete, hanging out getting some rays!

Here's Charlie swimming back to the stairs... he knew how to get out right away, and did just that!

Charlie can't understand why Pete is drilling a board in the fence. It had the perfect little hole that he was working on in order to get out of the yard. Boo Pete!
Here's Charlie's pool! It's a little pool, and he's yet to share it with Jack, but it works for him!
This is him asleep on the car ride home. He's doing much better in the car, as long as one of us is with him.
Charlie and Jada both getting belly rubs

Charlie took his second swimming lessons this weekend. We took some video and pictures of him in the pool. He loves his little pool we got for him. OK, doesn't LOVE it, but he goes in it voluntarily, which is pretty good. He likes the little one (think kiddie pool) because he can touch the bottom and because his tennis ball is in there.

Cutie

We've been so busy playing with Charlie that we've been unable to blog. We have some video of him swimming from this weekend...coming soon!

In the meantime here's a shot of him napping with Pete on the way up to Caseville. He's ten weeks old today!!! He's growing so fast!!


-- Post From My iPhone

Blog Picture

I want to put some pics up here from his photo shoot, but for now, here's one, before I run out the door.

Charlie the watchdog

So at lunch today I put Charlie in the kitchen while I ate. I can't leave him out because he only wants to play at lunch time and won't let me eat. Normally after he has eaten and gone outside he quietly plays in the fenced off kitchen with his toys and doesn't make too much noise. Today was not the case. He started barking a lot. Furious barking like I've never heard from him before. I got up to see what was going on because he wasn't barking at the gate looking toward me, no he was barking at something in the kitchen. It turns out that a loaf of bread had fallen on the floor and he was standing there four feet away barking his cute little head off at it. I think he thought he was protecting me from the dangerous little whole wheat monster. I picked up the loaf to show him it wasn't going to hurt him and he seemed pleasantly surprised. He immediately tried to bite the bag. At least I know Charlie is already looking out for us. Good dog Charlie!

Charlie's been blogged

Check out this link for some pictures!

http://mod4.com/blog/2009/07/charlie-the-golden-retreiver-puppy/

I'll put them up on here soon!