Yesterday was such a beautiful sunny day! Although Sam and I are super busy getting the house ready for Baby Girl, it's days like these that make us excited to spoil our pups as much as possible! We all woke up to sunshine and the dogs just couldn't wait to get outside to play. Grandma was here for the morning where we spent time in the backyard. Oliver spent his morning running through the flowers (currently dandelions, Sam is ACTIVELY working on landscaping our yard. When we bought the house the weeds were over our heads, now they are just at Oliver's ankles... still not great, but it's progress). Oliver would run through said flowers to stir up the bees and little bugs to attack. Duncan spent his morning playing catch with his baseball and tennis ball (thrown by Grandma, Mom, and Dad.)
After Grandma left, we decided to give the dogs baths. Since the weather was nice we decided to pull out the hose, which as you know, the dogs absolutely LOVE!!! We decided it would be better to wash them in the driveway since the grass would just get extremely muddy, defeating the purpose of the bath.
After the bath, Duncan spent some time rolling around on a towel drying himself off. It's very very cute to watch!
While Duncan was busy drying himself off, Sam and I realized that 3 of Oliver's feet were bleeding. Why? Well, he was so busy jumping and running around on the concrete for the water from the hose, his nails naturally filed themselves. Leaving most of his quick exposed and worn. Poor Oliver spent an hour in my lap drying off in the sun, getting his feet taken care of. The only way we could keep his feet from bleeding all over the house, was of course, wrap them up.
He was no happy about having his feet wrapped up.
Once he figured out that he could still walk, he flapped around like a duck, thumping his back feet on the ground each step.
Of course we had to put a cone around his neck for him to leave his feet alone. He waddled around and thumped his feet on the ground.
Sam made a wonderful Looney Tunes reference, the episode where Bugs Bunny draws specific features on Daffy Duck... A flower around his head :)
He wasn't too miserable and even spent more time lying in the sun outside. Not to worry... He is doing much better today and doesn't have the cone or the wraps on his feet.
Days like this make me realize that we are going to have our hands full very soon with Baby Girl, but these silly pups still need our love and attention too. Dog Dog spoils will happen in full effect until Baby Girl joins us. Then, we will have to find a balance for our 3 kids :)
