This changed a few days ago! Maeby's kennel moved into my studio room (soon to be replaced full-time by her bed in the dining room), and in a few hours, the room was painted! And last night we decided to tackle putting together the crib and changing table. So we laid all the pieces out and dove into the instructions. I think this was the point that Maeby realized something serious was happening. At first she was, "Oh, look! They're painting my room a nice blue color! How sweet of them! And what a comfy rug! Wow! How generous!" then it moved to "Huh. That's odd. There's new stuff in my room. Weird. I already have my kennel and love it...what else could I need?" and now it's more "HOLY CRAP I THINK SOMETHING IS SERIOUSLY WRONG HERE!!!"
She started trying to thwart the process by licking each piece of the furniture, just to test it out. She then attempted to help with the instructions by getting in our way each time we went to check them. She made sure to lay down directly on the parts we were working with, in the middle of the space. There was a lot of sighing and leaning against us, or walking out of the room in a huff only to bring back a toy (her current favorite: a tiny pink hippo) and shoving it in our hands.
She finally resolved to just lay quietly near us as we worked on the final pieces. The whole show was just so hysterical and endearing that it took us longer than we thought to put everything together because we were laughing so hard at Maeby!
We'll try to give her some special attention, but I think she's in for a rude awakening in about 12 weeks' time. I think she'll be depressed for a while, but she'll come around. We're just excited that our son has a great playmate to join him right away! There is no better companion for a little boy than a lab! Especially one that still thinks she's a puppy!
5 comments:
Lend it to other people, but don't get rid of your first crib...what a wonderful thing to pass onto your grandkids.
I know. I sound like a sentimental old woman, but we're about ready to move our third (and presumably final) child out of her crib, and I'm a bit sad.
I bet Maeby's going to turn into a total Mama Dog. She'll be saving Baby D from rats in no time!
That room is going to be SO amazingly gorgeous when you're done!! Poor puppy! I'll give her all the extra attention she can handle :) :)
those pics of nick and maeby are so classic. you should frame them together. i can't wait to see your little man's room! how fun. roxi is having a hard time now because ezra is doing so many new things that we are constantly praising him for. she thinks we are praising her for something (poor thing) and comes running with a toy in her mouth...once she realizes what's going on, she drops her toy and looks at us like we're praising a cat...what an idiotic thing to do. labs are GREAT with children. schnauzers tolerate them at best. i'm hoping she'll come around by the time ezra is old enough to play fetch with her...her one true passion in life...
in the short time bailey and madelyn were alive together (bailey died on thanksgiving day when maddie was only 2 1/2 months), bailey would look at madelyn like SHE was the one of another species. no curiosity, no affection. pure haughty disdain. interestingly, she had this same attitude with all other dogs. i swear, this dog honestly thought she was a human!
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