Sunday, November 13, 2011

Dog eat dog...or baby's food

When we brought Harley home at 8 weeks old (almost 4 years ago), he weighed 16lbs.  At the Vet last week, the scales tipped at about the 87lb mark.  Thankfully, I had Rylan in my arms so the Vet held back the lecture and instead gently reminded me that a healthy weight for Harley would be closer to 80lbs.  Now, tell me, someone, how when you have a "finger food eating almost toddler" who LOVES his puppy dog, and loves DROPPING food to his puppy dog, how we are to get the brut to lose 7lbs?!

"Hey kiddo, drop that morsel.  No one fed me today.  I swear. "

We should have named him Hoover.  Not Harley.  
These scenes are a daily occurrence in my happy little kitchen of which we spend half our day.  What I couldn't admit to the Vet was, as a SAHM who is obsessed with cleanliness (I've relaxed on it considerably since baby, believe me) I secretly LOVE when Harley mops up my floor with his salivating tongue after a messy baby meal.  Wouldn't you?!   One less chore, sign me up!

I can promise you many of our blog posts will be about this subject - FOOD.  Rylan eating it (or not eating it), Harley begging for it and acting like he never gets it (and always eating it - he never NOT eats it), me cooking it, cleaning it and if it's been a rough day, combing it out of my hair.

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