Mummy, the river and stuff!

For some reason, Mummy has not been leaving the house in a morning with daddy. Instead she has been doing an awful lot of lying in bed, watching Gilmore Girls and generally enjoying MY company. Mummy keeps talking to me about my little brother who will apparantly arrive some time near 1st April. For someone who is not even here yet he seems to be making mummy very tiered and taking up a lot of talking time (which could otherwise be devoted to me and my plays, walks, feeds etc).

But, with all this stay at home time on her hands, mummy has been taking me to the river once a week- which is AWESOME! I am kinda learning to swim, but I prefer to paddle- much more refined and you can gallop on to shore quicker if some fun looking pup turns up. When we get to the river, mummy does an awful lot of this:

I think that is why she is getting fatter and fatter! Either that or she has some terrible disease. I was leaning on her tummy the other day and it kind of tried to push me off! Bad indigestion maybe! Mummy and daddy thought it was hilarious!

Anywhay, here's some pictures of me at the river (bit easier to find than your river, Marvin!):

Sometimes daddy comes too- he is a lot more bossy than mummy but he gives me the best rub down when we've finished!

'That's it daddy, rub right there!'

THat's all for now folks,

Liffey's licks to you

XXX

What an exciting season!

Phewy!! No one warned me 2 weeks ago what maddness was about to ensue. I

am now officially a pooped doggy but it is ok cause now I am getting lots of time to sit and sleep.

I did enjoy it all though. I particularly enjoyed the tree in the house- strange but nice!

I loved getting presents:

And then destroying them!

I enjoyed having Jemmy and Uncle Jon come to stay- although Cousin Jem is still a big bully and would not let me destroy her new rubber chicken- pooey!

I REALLY enjoyed all the special edibles!! Yummers!

I even sort of enjoyed wearing silly reindeer antlers! (Although I did get carried away and chewed tham so I ended up with only 1 antler!)

Mummy said it was all called Christmas!! YEAH- let's do it again please?

Liffey's Licks and belated Christmas wishes

Back from my adventures

Hi everyone,

Well I know I have been gone a while, but after mummy and daddy ignoring me far to much and then breaking the shocking news to me that there is going to be a baby in the house I decided to make a run for it. Or rather a dig for it. This is me after a long hard day of digging.

I dug my way to China where I spent a few happy weeks with the local chiwowas and other tiny dogs. However, the dog chow over there wasn't so great- all noodles and rice and no hunks of beef- that I decided to give mummy and daddy one more go.

Mummy says I will always be her favourite puppy and that the baby will add to our family, not destroy it. We'll see...

well I shall try to catch up with what you have all been up to.

Liffeys LIcks to you all

Spring is here!!

Spring has sprung in Melbourne. I got to sunbathe all day today upon my deck. Had oe of my favourite breast bones to chew on and the big tree near the fence is making beautiful smells- ahh what a lovely day. It distracted me slightly from all the upsetables that are going on around here...

Mummy is still eating like a horse but now she says she can't walk me cause she feels sick. But mummy, surely if you stopped eating you might feel better. Sigh. It does not make any sense.

Also mumy is very very tierd. I am trying to look after her as Daddy is in Singapore this week but she doesn't always seem to appreciate my efforts. Yesterday I tried to sit next to her on the sofa to keep her warm and cosy but, oh no, I got told to 'get down'. No fair. Then i tried tosnuggle right up to her in bed and she pushed me away. Huh!?

Here are my best efforts at care:

Liffeys Licks to you all

Life is changing

Hello all,

Mummy is being very lazy at checking my blog recently and at helping me check everyone elses. EVen now she is refusing to get off her backside and walk to the study so that I can have pictures in this post. She says that she will put pictures up later.

Mummy says she has an excuse for being lazy and daddy says I have to be nice to her for about the next 7 months- curious!

Recently, mummy and daddy have also become a lot more stricter. All of a sudden I am not allowed to jump on the sofa or bed without permision and I even heard mummy telling daddy that I am going to have to spend more time outside- huh!! And yet mummy still seems to love me- she is ging me lots of special cuddles and I have to say that I am really enjoying it cause mummy smells a bit differerent to me- a really nice smell too!

Other mean things have happened to- like mummy got these cute teddy bears in the mail (and something else- like tiny little clothes- but they aren't gonna fit me) but when I tried to run off with 1 of the new bears mummy got really mad and shouted. But who else wants teddy bears in this house?!

Oh yeah AND mummy is eating EVERYTHING! Daddy keeps laughing at her for eating so much and mummy keeps looking at her belly in the mirror. I guess she is looking for fat rolls- silly mummy if you eat so much of course you will get fat rolls.

It is all very odd and I am very confused. Willl let you know if it becomes any clearer.
Liffeys confused licks to you all

Ready for a loooong post!!

Hello everyone! First, let me apologise for my mummy's laziness which has meant that I haven't been on the web much this week. She claims she has, 'too much on' but, honestly, doesn't she know that my social life is important. She claims that we may struggle for the next few weeks but I will try to convince her otherwise.

Anyway- enough of that- now I am here let me tell you about my spectacular, amazing first birthday!!!

So last Saturday mummy woke me up and told me it was my first birthday. She said food and pressies were involved so I figured this birthday thing must be OK. I got to sit on mummy's and daddy's bed whilst they ate breakfast AND for once they made a piece of toast for me!!!! mmmmmmm.... Anyway, after brekkie mummy brought in this pink present and told me I could open it.

Of course, being hooman, they did insist on some humiliating photos first:

(for goodness sake, I am 1- a grown woman, is this really necessary?)

Look what I got in the pink paper:

A kong stuffa ball!! It was already stuffed with roo and chicken- yummy!!!!! I also got a card which I was forced to read. Although I am very clever I do not like to read- I am more an experiential kinda dog.

When we had finished the manic present opening and general birthday merriment I was told there was another present for me in the kitchen- whohooo!! Look what I got:

Now is that a big bone or what??!!!! Doesn't daddy look shocked!! i think mummy must have bought the bone. Good old mummy- I forgive her for being lazy. I got to eat bone much as I wanted on my birthday. I like this birthday lark!!! Yummy yummy!!!!

The rest of the day was OK- eating bones, playing walking. But then, when it went dark mummy put bows in my hair and made me a special collar (that I sort of liked but it felt funny so I took it off).

And then Cousin Jemmy arrived for a surprise party!! Whohoo!! Apparently, it was also cousin Jem's birthday too- she was 7, (which is OLD). Jem was wearing her party outfit and she came in and strutted it about.

She is SUCH a show off.

THEN- would you believe it- MORE PREsENTS!!!

First one for Jem:

She got a squeaky duck but you can't really see it cause Cousin Jem has such a big mouth!

Then Uncle Jon gave me a pressie:

I got a squeaky rubber hamburger- which I thought might be real on the inside so the next day I ate it- and a pink tshirt- cool hey!!!! I am THE LUCKIEST pup alive.

By then we were all feeling a bit frisky so we had a bit of a boogie. Big headed Jem thought she had the best dance moves but I thought my head banging was fairly awesome:

Dancing makes a pup hungry so then we had dinner. After dinner was the BEST bit of my whole birthday. I got to sit at the table and eat cake. There was a cake for Jem and a cake for me. Mummy made mine so that doggies could eat it so I had to share with Jem whilst the hoomans ate Jem's cake. the hooman's did this strange thing first- they set fire to my cake and made me wait whilst they sang a very off tune, out of key song. Sigh- I just wanted to get to the eating!

Yum yums!! banana and yogurt flavour with roo, chicken and yogurt drop toppings!!! mmmm

This is Jem's cake- somehow I don't think Uncle Jon made it!

Guess what? / I got my first EVER ice cream with the cake. Boy that stuff was yummy!!! When the tub was finished mummy said I could have it but of course silly old Jem wanted in to so daddy MADE us share. I say my house my tubs but daddy said share and share alike- sigh.

But, don't worry I let her know how upset I was with her- paaaaarp in your face Jemma!!!!

It was all SO much fun. Almost too much fun for a 1 year old and her 7 year old old fogey cousin.

I think it may have been the best day of my life (well except for my adoption day!)

Well my dear friends mummy says enough about birthdays and maybe if I'm a good girl I can do it all again next year. What does she mean- i am ALWAYS a good girl!!!! he he he!!

Well Liffey's 1 year old licks to you all.

PS- I WILL play that tagging game thing soon- sorry!!

SAd News

mummy and me were gonna post news about my 1st birthday party today and also catch up on smoe games we were tagged in. However, we nnow feel it is not right to publish such happy news when the Dogs with Blogs family is mourning the loss of Charlie- a founder of Dogs with Blogs. Although i didn't really know Charlie, if it hadn't of been for him I would not be blogging at all.

So I will save the happier posts for later this week.

Love and licks to OPy and all Charlie's family and friends. He will be missed.

Liffey's sad licks to all