This is Joey.
My favorite dog.
Shhh. Don’t tell Elizabeth.
She’ll get jealous.
This is Wade.
My favorite son.
Just kidding.
I love both my boys To The Moon and Back!
Joey took a keen interest in Wade from the start. From the time I was first pregnant with Wade, Joey started following me everywhere in the house, sitting with me whenever I sat, and getting into bed with me at night. Things he didn’t do before. Somehow he just knew. Maybe pregnant women smell different. I don’t know.
When we brought Wade home Joey spent several minutes checking him out and sniffing him.
Elizabeth just ignored Wade. Over the next six weeks Joey would check out the bassinet and it’s contents a few times a day. Often he slept on the floor next to bassinet.
This is the now empty bassinet.
Last week Wade starting sleeping in his crib.
Poor Joey almost had a nervous break down. He spent a night and day sniffing the bassinet looking for its occupant. He’d check it out, then look at me, and make a few agitated paces around the house. When he started whimpering over it Sunday afternoon I finally took him into Wade’s room, lifted up the 35 lb. dog and showed him the baby napping in his crib.
I guess that did the trick. Joey hasn’t sniffed the bassinet since. Now he just sits with me when I feed Wade, and puts his his furry little head at Wade’s feet.
It must be love.
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