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I’m under way too many deadlines this week, so all I have for the blog is a few camera-phone snapshots from my day with the boy:

First, he was a total rockstar at the dentist.


The dentist took x-rays.  See those giant incisors (at left) trying to push out the baby teeth? Yeah, he gets those from me.  “There may be some crowding,” the dentist said.  (May be?  I wore braces for eight years and I had a quarter of my adult teeth removed. The boy is in for an orthodontic roller coaster ride of epic proportions.)

 

The boy has become enamored of late with a pedestrian overpass at the edge of our neighborhood. We’ve taken the dog over it before, but on those excursions we used the ramp on both ends. This time we thought we’d try the stairs.

Ends up the dog doesn’t do stairs.  We often talk about how dumb and uncoordinated he is, and this was a classic Jake moment:

He muddled his way up to the landing, but there was no way in hell he was going to lift his hind feet onto the second set of stairs. Did I mention he weighs 100 pounds? So yeah, we coaxed and coached him back down the half-flight of stairs and walked around to the ramp.  He’s a sweet dog, but he’s not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Comments

  1. Wow, he’s getting so big!

  2. Ha ha!! Bring some awesome treats with you next time and you’ll train him quick enough!

  3. Dog is stupid! Is stupid dog, yes? Looks stupid.