Trick-or-Treat

I promise I haven't gone anywhere, I'm still here!! This last month has been a whirlwind of activities for me! I have been so busy lately, I kind of forgot about the blog! October started with beautiful colors of fall and let me tell you, I love ALL the leaves that keep falling!! YUMMY! Leaves are by far one of my favorite things to eat these days! Nick always tells me I am like a goat because of all the leaves and sticks I find outside! By the middle of October, I got to meet a new friend! Grandma Elaine and Grandpa George became the proud parents to a brand new puppy! Her names is Sunny and boy oh boy is she little!! My nose is as big as her head!! I wasn't allowed to play with Sunny for a couple weeks until she got a little bit bigger now, but now that she has grown a little, we can play while supervised! I'm still learning my size too, so sometimes I forget how big I am!! Luckily I have Em and mom here to help remind me when I get a little rough!! This last month and a half I have also gone through about a handful of new toys! Mom and Nick even bought me a toy that had (notice HAD) 7 layers of stuffing to make it extra tough, but that posed no challenge for me! I made sure I took out all 7 layers of the toy and spread it throughout the living room to show everyone that I need tougher toys than that!! It became very clear this month that I REALLY love the car! I mean we already knew that I loved to ride in the car, but I have started to help myself to going everywhere with the family. I make sure I squeeze through everyone to get to the door so I can make sure I am getting to go with!! I've been pretty much everywhere these days :) I sure do love going with everyone! I discovered this month that one of my FAVORITE treats include popsicles! Mmmm! Talking about food, that leads me to Halloween!! Em was really excited to dress me up this year and thought long and hard about what I should dress up as! Finally she came up with the perfect costume.....A HOTDOG! Ugh. Would you want to be dressed up as a hotdog? I didn't think so. I was super embarrassed to wear the costume around! Luckily Em only made me where it long enough to get a couple of photos! I can't believe I am letting her post them on here. I'm looking forward to spending the holidays with family and getting to hang out with the family as the weather starts to change. 

Much love,

Gracie-bear

How could you say no to this face?!

I out grew Chloe's bed

Cuddle buddies

YAY! I got a new bed! I actually fit on this
one too!

Stuck under the table....

Ok, I'll just go to sleep then.

Such a heavy head!

I LOVE hugs!

Me and my "indestructible" toy

Sunny watching me chew MY toy!

Mmm popsicles!

Please don't post this online!

Can you take me out of this now?

I take up the WHOLE back seat!

Your arm looks comfy!

Too big for car rides!

These are my new toys Em got me :) 

This is where I like the sit in the truck...
Right on Nick's lap :) What can I say,
I'm a Daddy's girl :) 

I love going in the truck! Not sure where
Nick is going to sit!

Bear hugs and stitches

Well it's official, I am now six months old!! WHOO HOO! I am also tipping the scales these days at a solid 46 pounds! These last couple of weeks have been a whirlwind of activities for me! The first couple of days after my surgery, I got to spend sometime with Sligo :) We had so much fun playing together that I kept forgetting I had stitches. Besides Sligo coming over, I pretty much stayed at home during the two weeks that I had my stitches for. When I went to get my stitches out, I was definitely much more skeptical of Dr. Rick's office...I actually didn't even want to go at all! I made Nick carry me in!! People kept giving him funny stares since he was carrying in a pretty large dog! It's okay though, I felt much safer with him holding me!! My fist outing after my stitches came out wasn't much better that visiting Dr. Rick. Mom and Em took me to Pet People and I was acting SO weird! It was definitely not normal for me! Luckily I think that I was just scared since having my stitches out, so hopefully my next outing will be better. Since getting spayed, I haven't been to puppy play time in two weeks! Well, I was all excited to go this week, but I learned that puppy play time has ended :( Our puppy supervisor Stephanie has left Petco, so no more puppy time :( I was super sad! Since everyone has officially gone back to school and work now, I am getting use to being alone in the basement for the majority of the morning till mom comes home :) I am also starting to get much better at holding my piddle. I am starting to become a very rare piddler now!! YAY!

Well, it's dinner time ;) 

Gracie 

Big giant bear hugs :) 

Nap buddies?

In to everything!

Wow, is that true! I have been so busy this month that I have had hardly anytime to write! This past week I spent the night away from home for the first time ever! I HATED it! I got spayed, so I had to stay at Dr. Rick's office for the night. He told my mommy and daddy that I barked all night long....shocker I know! I have been behaving myself very well since then! I haven't tried to bite at my stitches or anything! Nick keeps putting A&D on them for me, but I always lick it off! It's kind of like a little treat.... Before my surgery though, I enjoyed getting to spend time with everyone before they all went back to work and school. It's a little odd now that people are constantly coming and going in the house...I still have to work on realizing that.....I tend to bark when they come in the house! I have officially been moved from puppy food these days and I am eating full on adult doggy food! I think everyone figured that since I eat everything else, like rocks, sticks, shoes, leather, dirt, etc. that giving me adult food would be ok! I am really enjoying it though!! I have been spoiled this month (I know, no different than any other month!) so much! I have gotten lots of new toys and been getting lots of love! My new favorite toy is my cow toy that Em picked out for me. He's almost as big as me! He even came with me when I got spayed so I had something familiar with me :)

Enjoy the last part of summer!!

Gracie-a-sauras 

It's too hard to stand and eat

I love to curl up :) 

What was that??

Mmm Bandit, you smell nice

YUM rawhide! 

Sometimes I get too tired to come inside

What was for dinner? 

Mmmm I love steak! 

 

This is my new cow toy!

Is that fairy dust?

More like tooth fairy dust! These last two weeks, I have started loosing my baby teeth!! Luckily no one has stepped on them yet! I lost my very first tooth at puppy play time last week! This week at puppy play time, I lost TWO teeth!! They just keep falling out!! My mommy has been so busy this last week cleaning up the house from all of my piddling.... :( I just can't help it!! The family isn't thinking it's so cute anymore! I have a feeling I am going to start potty-training bootcamp soon if I don't stop! It's a good thing that Santa isn't coming for a couple of months still, because I have to get my act together with all the this piddling and chewing on stuff! Oh, did I tell you?? I um...well....um....I ate part of the recliner.....WHOOPS! Mommy and Daddy were not happy with me at ALL! That was one of my naughtiest moments ever! Now, enough with the bad things I've been doing, what about the good things!! I have almost all of my adult hair in now! The only part that is not adult hair is my head! It's still very light brown, while the rest of me is quite dark! Everyone says I look a little funny!! I am weighing in at a solid 40 pounds now! I know it doesn't sound like much, but Bandit is 11 and weighs 54 pounds.....guess who is only 5 1/2 months and weighs almost as much as an 11 year old! It's a good thing I'm not a kid, because someone would call child services on the family cause I would be a HUGE baby!! HA! I went to puppy play time tonight and had LOTS of fun! I thought this would be my last one, since I am just so huge compared to the other puppies, but I don't think it will be anymore! Stephanie the dog trainer told me I can come as long as I want, since I am such a gentle giant. I was so happy to hear that! I LOVE going to that place!! Well, I think I have said enough to cover me for not writing for 2 weeks! WHOOPS! But hey, you try typing with these HUGE paws!!

Much Love,

Gracie

Passed out puppy!

What? I was just checking things out...on the table

I know it's a little blurry, but look at that face?!

Getting our tan on...is this collar going to
give me a funny tan line?!

Watching people pack is making me sleepy!

Mmm toys!

Cookie?!

Sounds like lunch is coming! 

This is one of my favorite toys!

I love sleeping with my toys!

Try being mad at this face!! You can't!!