Am I Raising a Puppy or a Baby?

The evidence is as follows:
1. He travels on all fours.
2. He drools.
3. He loves to play with our shoes, and we have to keep him from chewing on them.
4. He rolls the ball, then crawls over to it and brings it back to us.
5. He bites our fingers, toes, clothes, etc.
6. He pants when he gets excited, and he growls and flexes his muscles when he is unhappy.
7. He likes to play tug of war with the laundry, sometimes with his teeth.
8. He is always happy to see us when we come home.
9. He tries to eat off of our plates and complains if we don't share.
10. He is not potty trained.

So, puppy or baby? Either way, he is adorable and hilarious.

Peach City

BooBear at Peach City in Brigham City, my Dad's old HS stomping ground. We went there on the way back from ID a couple of weeks ago in honor of my father. Since it's Father's Day, I thought it appropriate to share these pics. Love you Dad!
His new trick - he loves drinking out of a water bottle He also thinks biting people's clothes is a great game, except that he sometimes gets skin with the clothes, so consider yourself warned.



In response to Ddonn:
It took me a while to figure out the names to use for my family members. I think I have named almost everyone, but there are LOTS of siblings. So here's a run down for reference for those who know my family:

My siblings: (in order of age)
Enrique - Sue's husband
Sue - a nickname she once gave herself when she was 11-13 years of age and didn't like her real name
FBS ("Flaming Ball of Stress") - her college nickname, which is a lot nicer than the one we gave her growing up...Med___
Zanne (me)
Softserve - his mission nickname
?? - Softserve's finacee
GLump - short for Geoffalump, his childhood nickname
Soyjoy - GLump's wife
Crayola - a derivative I came up with that reminds me of the nickname FBS used to call her, the nickname being too close to her real name to use

Werty's family: (many of these are their chars from FFXI, so I take no credit for creating their nicknames)
Ged - oldest brother
Klari - Ged's wife
Werty
Dawn - her middle name, unless she would like "SPie" instead - let me know
Dawn's husband doesn't have a nickname yet...how's about "Pickee"?
BBug
Brain - BBug's husband, not too hard to figure that one out
Zinx
Cherry - Zinx's wife
Mecedes - Rena's husband
Rena
...and I need to come up with names for the youngest three siblings

Congrats to Softserve!

My brother Softserve called today. While I was trying to get the phone, he left a message on the machine. He is so lucky I didn't hear the message. I called him right back (I really like caller ID).
"I left a message. Did you hear it?"
"No."
"Oh. It was really short." (he laughs)
My brother doesn't usually bother calling me often, let alone leaving real messages. It must be something important, I thought.
"Why? Are you engaged?"
"Maybe."
"Maybe?"
"Yeah, so the message I left said, 'I just wanted to tell you...uh...I'm getting married. Bye.'"
That's my brother.

I will try to not be mad that I was one of the last siblings to find out. He told me before FBS, but only because she is out of town. He told Sue yesterday. :( But I am definitely happy for him. So, he is moving here with his fiancee at the end of the month. They are going to get jobs, get settled, make wedding plans, then get hitched. No actual date yet. I assume that will come soon.

9 Month Check-up

Here are the new stats for our little guy:
21 lbs. 10 oz, 70%
30 inches long, 95%
48 cm head, 100% (:P)

He is still taller than he is heavy as compared to the averages of other babies in the country. He is the youngest of the babies born in our condo stairwell from last summer, but he is the second largest of the four.

While recovering from surgery, I spent some time on BooBear's baby book. Looking at how small he was is making me a little baby hungry, but it's been fun. I need to get refill pages because 10 pages just isn't cutting it. The book is 8x8, so it's only about 1 photo per page. The hospital photos alone take more than half of it so far.

No longer doped up...

Surgery was Monday. Everything went well. The 20-30 minutes after they woke me up and before they would give me any painkillers was h@ll. Today I am taking regular OTC doses and chugging along. My belly button is one huge bruise, but I now have inventory +1 where my gall bladder used to be.