Roxy's Rough Day

Roxy's day started out just dandy, with her morning army crawl down the hall on our way outside. Here's a video so you can see the army crawl in action:



However, things went downhill from there. Corey worked from home today (he's got a really bad cold) and IM'd me halfway through the day to tell me that Roxy had projectile diarrhea (whew, for once I'm glad I'm not working from home).

She seemed to be fine after that incident and she rested all afternoon, so I took her to her final Basic Obedience class tonight as planned. While she does great playing with the other dogs there, she isn't so great when up in the front of the class trying to do the tricks (sit & stay, leave it, come and heel) she's learned because she is so easily distracted by all the other people and dogs in the room. And I know you can all vouch for me because you've seen the sit & stay video - she's good at it! She actually did the worst at that tonight - it took her about five tries to sit for longer than three seconds, even though at home, she can sit & stay for 15-20 seconds. Regardless, she got her jumbo graduation milkbone and back home we came.

Once I got her upstairs though, I realized she'd barfed all over in her crate and she was literally sitting in the middle of it (oh the joys of puppy parenthood). That lead to an impromptu bath (which you all know Roxy is not fond of).

Her day did take a turn for the better, though - once out of the bath, she finally got to enjoy her jumbo milkbone and now she's cuddled up in her doggy bed relaxing after her rough day. Poor Roxy - hopefully tomorrow will be a much better day (for all of us!).


Sittin' pretty after the bath.


Devouring the milkbone.

Relaxing after her rough day.

It's All About Roxy

So in looking at recent blog posts, I realized that I hadn't posted too much about our cute little pup lately. That said, this blog is dedicated entirely to Roxy!

She's just about six months old and the latest weigh-in says she's 16.2 lbs. She supposed to get to 24 lbs so we still have a little ways to go. She loves her little pink squeak toy the best - it's the first toy we ever gave her. We put it in her crate with her every night and it's often the first toy she runs back in for in the morning. She LOVES being outside walking around, but mostly loves sniffing and eating anything she can get her paws on outdoors. It usually takes us 10-15 minutes to go around the large block around our condo. She also loves cuddling and sleeping on our laps - I worked from home on Thursday of last week and I think she slept on my lap (while snoring of course) for at least 4 hours.

She's currently paper trained during the day but we're trying to get away from that and only have her going outside. We recently got her a bell to ring with her paw anytime she needs to go - she hasn't fully gotten the hang of it yet. She likes to ring it anytime she's bored and just wants to get outside. If she rings it, we take her out and give her a few minutes to do her 'business' - if she doesn't within that time frame, back in she goes. I think I took her out 10 times yesterday - only 4 of which resulted in any 'business'. Oh well, some day it'll work (I hope!). If nothing else - it's pretty cute when she rings the bell (loudly) and then sits and looks at us as if to say 'Okay, I'm ready to go outside to play now, folks!' If only we had a house with a backyard that we could just let her out to play in anytime she wants.

Here's a video doing one of her tricks --- 'Sit' and 'Stay' (even after we put a treat on the ground). Notice her stare the treat down right after I set it down.



And here are some cute pics of her that we've taken this past week.


Roxy and Corey watched the Seahawks game today.


First shot of Roxy in her Seahawks jersey (one of Corey's birthday presents from yours truly).


Just another view of her in the jersey. When we first put it on her over two months ago, she was so small, she was able to crawl out of the neck hole. Not anymore...


And a back view - so cute, I couldn't get enough pics of her in it. She didn't even mind it being on - it was on most of the day. We even took her out for walks in, which made everyone we passed smile and compliment her.


Playing with Pink Bear earlier this week. This bear used to be huge compared to Roxy but now she's about the same size.

Next up is Thanksgiving - we have nine people coming over. Roxy will be in heaven - so many people to play with and to give her attention! I'm sure we'll have lots of stories and photos to share after our turkey feast.

Meeting of the K-9's

We're having the whole gang (Corey's parents and brother, Consuelo, my parents and brother and my grandma) over for Thanksgiving and we've invited Brio (Consuelo's dog) over as well. In order to ensure Roxy and Brio play nice on Turkey Day, we thought we'd have them meet ahead of time. Today was the big day.

Roxy and Brio are almost the exact same height and length, which was really cute. Roxy probably would have pounced on Brio if we'd let her and I don't think Brio is completely sold on Roxy yet (I wouldn't be either if a stalky dog kept leaping at me while snorting and huffing & puffing). We took a walk with the both of them and they seemed to do okay walking / running around with either other. Hopefully they'll remember each other come Thanksgiving.

Here are a few pics from the meeting:


Umm, who are you?


Scoping out the same bush...


Good shot for you to see how similar in size they are...for now (Roxy is still supposed to gain 8 more pounds).

They met a another dog (a poodle mix) at the play fields nearby.

And you are?....

And on a side note, I thought I'd share Roxy's latest habit. Every morning, I take her out for a potty break as soon as I get up. She used to literally sprint outside to her bark patch but in the last week or so, she has taken to army crawling down the entire hallway, from our front door to the door of the stairs. While this may seem cute (and trust me, it is), it is pretty frustrating at 6 a.m. to have to wait for her to crawl down the entire hallway just to go outside to do her business, but at the same time, I can't help but smile. It's a good thing she's cute, right?!

Making her way from our door to the stairs this morning...

And here's a close-up...

Sunny Seattle Saturday

As most of you know, after it hits November here in Seattle, we don't see the sun much for about 9 months. We were pleasantly surprised today though, when we woke up to find the sun streaming in our windows. We were excited when the Allen's (Ben, Heidi & Luci) called and asked if we wanted to go on a walk. We knew we had to take advantage of the sun while we can!

The Allen's met at our place so they could meet Roxy. Roxy also got to meet Luci and was great with her - and Luci loved Roxy! She smiled at her almost the entire time. It was so fun to watch the two of them.

Here are a few pics of Roxy & Luci:

I have a feeling that Luci is going to be walking soon!

Luci & Roxy sizing each other up.

Luci is such a cute, happy baby!

Roxy loves sitting on the couch like a person. It seriously calms her down for some crazy reason.

After introducing Luci to Roxy, we took a walk and stopped at the The Scoop @ Walter's for some coffee and pastries to re-fuel for the walk home. At The Scoop, they were preparing for Thanksgiving and had supplies for kids to make construction paper turkies, which of course, us 20- and 30-somethings decided was right up our alley. We had a great time and I'm sure the folks at The Scoop thought we were drunk. Here's a peek at our creation:

Hey - you try making a paper turkey without glue!

Stay tuned - I think Brio (our friend Consuelo's dog) and Roxy will be meeting for the first time tomorrow and I'm sure we'll have some great pics and stories to share then.

Kels' Birthday Bash

Kels turned 26 this week so of course, we had to celebrate! On Thursday night, a bunch of us met up at The Traveler, which is a great Euro-style pub right along Leary in Ballard. It just opened earlier this year and the drinks and food are great! And don't forgot the yummy fries (regular AND sweet potato!) and dipping sauces.

Throughout the evening, tons of Kels' friends from high school, college, grad school and just from around Seattle dropped by to take part in the celebration. Corey wasn't able to make it (fire drill at work) but he was still able to get Kels a drink to celebrate (and I was her personal waitress - can't beat that!). We all had a great time and I think Kels did too - just a hunch though.

Here are some pics from our evening out (the rest on our my Flickr site):


Gina, Kels & I.


Gina, Me & Sara.


Cheers!


Cute couple alert! Mark & Kels pose on the big night out.

Girlie Gathering

Tonight, Brooke had a bunch of us Wunderman (current and past) gals over for some wine, gossiping and dinner. Brooke moved into her apartment a few months ago and just finished furnishing it so she was very excited to finally have everyone over for a house-warming and we were excited to check it out.

Her apartment is super cute - newly re-finished and decorated very well. She even has a nice, big table that fit all six of us gals for dinner.

It was great to catch up with everyone, hear what is going on at Wunderman from the girls who still work there and to hear about Brooke's new man.

All-in-all, it was a great night!


All the girls! Terri (who was trying to hide just as the photo was taken), Alison (preggo with twin girls!), Maggie, me, Brooke and Jennifer.



Brooke and her dog, Bodhi (a Boston Terrier). Bodhi was very well behaved the entire time we were there.

Crashin the Allens'

Ben and Heidi invited Corey and I over to hang out, see Luci and eat some delicious homemade pizza last night. We hadn't seen them in a few months and boy is Luci growing up quickly! She's even started taking swimming classes! She is so cute and such a great baby. She was happy the entire time we were there. When we have kids, we hope we're as lucky as Ben and Heidi are to have such a cute, healthy and happy baby.

We had a great time catching up with Ben and Heidi and we (Corey, Roxy and I) have plans to meet up with both of them, Luci and Annie soon for a walk around Ballard, which we're looking forward to. Up next though is the Allen's Election Party tomorrow night after Roxy's obedience class - should be a fun night!

Here are a few pics from last night:


The Allen family - Annie (their dog), Heidi, Luci & Ben.

Here's a close-up of Luci.

Our Lovely Ladybug

Last Halloween, I was walking around in Ballard and saw tons of kids and dogs dressed up in cute costumes. This year, being new puppy parents, we didn't want to miss the fun. We found a ladybug costume at Petco that fit Roxy perfectly.

After we both got home from work tonight, we took Roxy out for a walk around Ballard. While we didn't see any other dogs dressed up this year, we saw quite a few cute kids in costume and Roxy had a great time. She got all sorts of attention, scored a few pieces of beef jerky, took some time out for some license plate sniffing and was able to mingle with tons of little kids, which is something we hadn't yet had the opportunity to do with her. She did great - she likes to jump on them and lick them just like she does adults; no biting or barking at all. (We'll keep working on the jumping part in doggie class.)

She didn't mind the costume too much, except later this evening, after we'd been home for awhile, the antennas start drooping and quickly became a chew toy.


Our cute little ladybug.


She greeted me in costume when I got home from work - made my whole day.


All worn out after our walk.

It's still Thursday...

10/30/2008
Originally uploaded by C. Moran

We went to Azteca for dinner. It's a Mexican restaurant in Ballard--although it's actually a chain of restaurants that you can probably find on Google Maps. Google Maps is really handy and I think it will become big one day. Azteca is owned by the Ramos family but I haven't met any of them at the restaurants; although maybe I have and didn't even know it.

I had a chicken fajita burrito. It was good. It has chicken in it that has been cooked like chicken fajitas, which is why they call it a chicken fajita burrito. It also has rice and beans and grilled green peppers and onions in it (also keeping with the fajita theme). There's a sauce they put on top which really helps. I had chips and salsa, too. Jenny had a taco salad, which she used to get more often, but has been getting the tostada salad instead, which is pretty much the same thing, just doesn't have the big, crunchy shell. She had guacamole on it. She likes guacamole. Guacamole is made out of avocados. Our friend Lisa likes avocados. There are lots of avocados near Palm Springs (a couple we met on the cruise this year told us). Jenny's from the Palm Springs of Washington (Yakima), which isn't the same thing, but they might have avocados, too.

Okay, it's almost time to watch TV shows. I remember when Friends was on Thursdays. There are still good shows on Thursdays, but it's not the same. I like the Office. If I could only watch one show live on Thursday nights it would be the Office. Kath & Kim is pretty good, too, but it's new and we'll see if it stays funny. And Thursday Night Football starts soon. When that does, I'd probably rather watch that live more than the Office.

If you're reading this, I can't believe you made it all the way to the end. Asinine Blog Post Thursday is now over...

EDITOR'S NOTE: For the record--and clarification--the "Asinine Blog Post Thursdays" posts were in no way, shape or form intended to poke fun at the primary "Meet the Morans" blogger, Jenny.  It was in fact intended to make light of some bloggers (to remain nameless) and the topics on which they post.  I would also like to note that all the details contained within these Thursday posts have in fact been true.  I hope these posts do not adversely impact the readship of "Meet the Morans".  Good day.

Asinine Blog Post Thursday

10/30/2008
Originally uploaded by C. Moran

So, today is asinine blog post Thursday. It's a gray day and I'm wearing a little bit of gray. This morning I had a donut (their spelling, not mine) from Top Pot on the way back from Cruise West. Yum. It was good. This afternoon I'm having a cup of coffee. Here's a picture of it.