It has been forever since my last post and as I'm sure not a lot of people read my posts I think it's safe to say I didn't terribly upset anyone with my lack of blogging motivation. Let me tell you, it was not from lack of ideas, as there was plenty, it was just that I was finally busy at work!! :) So to catch you all up on the fascinating life that is Morelli and Kate I will list a little of what has happened since the last post for you below. Here we go...
1. Morelli has lost all his baby/puppy teeth!!! What a big boy!! This did happen quite some time ago and unfortunately no, I do not have any pics of his teeth. But, as a result of this life event I did learn some disturbing facts about some of my friends and dog owners in general....
Did you know that there are people out there that...
SAVED THEIR DOGS BABY TEETH!!!!!!
How did I learn this fascinating fact you might ask? Well I went down to my friend Emily's desk (she owns a black lab and a yellow lab and is my go to person for lab pup advise and help with grooming) to tell her that Morelli had lost a few of his teeth. I said a few as apparently I had missed the first few falling out and his losing teeth was only brought to my attention one night by him noisily chewing on something... that something turned out to be a molar. So there I was telling Emily how I had to take the molar away from my dog the night before and she straight up asked me..."Did you save it?" Um no, I'm glad you asked, but indeed I did not save it. What???? Seriously, the thought did not even cross my mind. Is this a common thing? Do dog owners do this a lot? Apparently she kept her yellow labs teeth after she lost them. Okay so what do you do with them now?? This has lead me to believe that some parents out there must keep their kids teeth after they sneak into their room at night and take it out from under their pillow and replace it with a quarter (i know inflation has happened but it was only a quarter in my day). Do parents do this too??? Emily will you do this with your kids teeth as well and if so will each kid have their own separate teeth bag. Do you keep the bags o' teeth from your pets or kids in a box some where, or is this a major opportunity for scrapbooking amazingness. Mom ... Dad... did you save my teeth??? I'm curious to know! Such a perplexing concept!
moving on..
2. Morelli has had lots of play dates with his two BFFS. Graham a chocolate lab around 100lbs. and Cory another chocolate lab mix around 60lbs. He loves his play dates with all pups but I believe these two are his favorite and they're inseparable when together. Graham is my roommate's fiances' brother's dog. Did you follow that? And Cory is my old college roommate Amanda's and her husband Brandon's dog. His name is Cory short for corporal as Brandon was a marine. Morelli played outside with Graham all Labor Day and Morelli and Cory lived it up last weekend while tailgating for the ISU v Iowa game. GO STATE!!!!!
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| Morelli and Graham on Labor Day... Graham also goes by bighead :) ... you can guess why! |
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| Stole this pic of Cory from Brandon's FB page as I have a pic of the two pups together but I haven't uploaded it to my computer yet! |
Side note... bummer ISU lost last weekend!!! As a result I lost a bet with my boss at work and now I have a week of putting up with this in my cubicle...
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| It really doesn't bug me that much as I grew up a hawk, but if ISU would've won my boss would've had to put up with an ISU flag in his cube for a week and I just don't think he could do it... hence why i made the bet! |
3. Morelli traveled with my parents and I to Kansas city for part of the Labor day weekend. He got to meet my uncle, aunt, and cousin. My sister and her husband were up from Texas that weekend so he also got to see his favorite aunt Jenn again and finally meet his uncle Joe. (he wishes he could see them more... or maybe that's me, but he's glad he gets to skype with them frequently.... or maybe that's me again). He also got to meet one of my best friends Devon. He didn't get the opportunity to meet her pup a boxer named Kingston but he will sometime soon and I'm sure they will hit it off. While in K.C. we went boating and Morelli went for a quick swim when he feel off the back of the boat as we floated in the middle of the lake.
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| I'm on a BOAT!!! |
He also got to meet my aunt and uncle's dogs Riley the pug and Angel the Boston terrier. She gets her name sake from the LA baseball team. Angel and Morelli did not especially care for each other but Riley couldn't get enough of him. (videos of those two playing to come.... so hysterical pugs crack me up!)
4. Morelli found out that his name sake is soon going to be moving to the big screen. He was named after a character in the Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum series. In the book Steph is a bounty hunter who is on and off again with a hot Italian cop named Joe Morelli. They call him Morelli a majority of the time in the books. When I was thinking of getting a dog I wanted an original name that no one else would have. I was debating between some old school names I liked from Jane Austen's amazing books or Morelli and I went with the latter. The books are pretty good and great summer reads that don't take long to get through. I found out recently that they're making a movie based on the first book of the series with Katherine Heigl as the main character Stephanie.... kind of excited to see how the movie will turn out cuz i love Katherine Heigl!!!! (and not just because we share the same name) :) I can't say I'm too disappointed with who they got to play Morelli for the movie either!!! :) Very Nice!!!!
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| Actor playing Joe Morelli in the movie One for the Money, I'd say he does the name justice :) |
Back to the dog Morelli...
5. Morelli was neutered this last Tuesday. He did really well with it and is back to his normal happy, healthy, and hyper self. His mom on the other hand cried after picking him up, and realized as I was talking to my parents that if I ever have to put him down years from now, I better be married, as I will not be able to make that decision or handle it on my own. I'm not normally a crier but seeing him like that and knowing it was my choice to neuter him hit my heart strings. He looked so sad after losing his manhood. :( Poor little guy! But my friend Emily tells me to keep in mind that neutering your dog helps to prevent certain cancers the older he gets so silver lining!!!
6. Babysitting... my parents aka grandpa and grandpa love babysitting their grandpup!!! They've been watching him at least one weekend a month if not two and they watch him every Tuesday night as I have sand volleyball. Since I've been really busy traveling for friends b-days, going to Chicago for vacation, and singing at or being in friends weddings this summer they've had quite a few opportunities to watch their grandpup. I knew my dad would be in love with watching Morelli right off the bat, but I am honestly in awe of my mom with my dog. Growing up she never really paid attention to our family dogs but she loves Morelli!!! She calls him peanut and he loves to sit in front of her and let her pet him. Ironic because I too frequently sits in front of her and lets her play with my hair :). I think my mom loves him because she really really really really really really really wants grandkids and this is as close as she'll be getting to having one any time soon!!! But it's super cute so I'll need to snag a pic of the two of them and post it :)
Well I believe that is all for now... future posts: videos of Riley and Morelli playing, pics of last weekends tailgate, skyping with my favorite aunt, learning to go on runs (this wont just be something Morelli will need to learn), ISU tailgating, Chicago (Morelli didn't go but the pics i took of the chi-town sky line from a hot air balloon are just to good not to blog about.), and family outings!
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| Most recent pic... my little man is growing up! |
Have a wonderful Thursday!!!!
Kate
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