Our little pup has been with us just over four months now. She's about 7 1/2 months old and has surpassed 50 pounds ... hard to believe from the 16 pounds she was when we first took her home.
She's grown out of her old sleeping position:
I think that her legs have gotten too long for it to be comfy anymore...
But as she grows, she remains a scholar...
More than her size, we've noticed the past few weeks that she's really maturing a lot from her little-puppy stage. Through these weeks, she has experienced a lot of milestones.
Last Tuesday was a humongous day for her!
We went on a family day trip to Oklahoma City. We first spent about two hours with the Goldman Family at their house. Libby was out back running and sunbathing most of the time, while Yoni made pizzas and we ate a nice lunch. Then, we let her in to play with the kids for a while. She was wonderful with the kids - pretty gentle and playful. The milestone came when one of the kids ran up the stairs, and Libby stood at the bottom in awe. I hadn't realized this, but she has never seen stairs before. We don't have any in our house, there are none in Dallas, and I guess it's something that you just don't think about from a puppy's point of view. Well, with a little bit of help, Libby cautiously traversed the steps both up and down for the first time. She couldn't do it gracefully quite yet, but it was really adorable.
Then, I went swimming with the Goldman girls all afternoon while Yoni took Libby to the Hefner Lake Dog Park (www.pawok.com). Unfortunately, we forgot the camera that day, but Libby swam for the first time!! There's a big lake there, and all it took was her seeing other dogs playing, then when Yoni threw the ball to the middle of the lake she ran in and splashed around to fetch it. She even swam a bit at places where she couldn't walk. We hope to take her back a few more times before the summer runs out. She really had a great time. Then to wrap up the day, we stopped by Wendy and Mike's house to say hi and Libby got to meet Carly (their dog) and have a little play date with her - just in case she wasn't tired enough already!!
One really positive outcome of that day is her increased cooperation in the bath. We gave her one today, and the combination of our increased puppy bathing skill, and her maturity, allowed for an easy, uneventful bath time. Here she is in the drying process:
We also notice a lot of the poodle in her when it comes to some of her habits. Whether we're sitting there or not, her FAVORITE nap place is right under our little breakfast table. It's very sweet, when we do sit down, she uses our feet as her pillow. I think part of it is liking to feel close to us, but she also likes the shape of a shoe. She'll often go into our room, steal a shoe (usually Yoni's big ABU boots or Crocs), carry it to her nap place and use it as a pillow. Most puppies would steal a shoe to chew on, but not ours...she steals it to set up an ideal sleeping place.
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