It’s been a fairly uneventful week around here other than for Lily’s recovery. She continues to do really well. It just takes time to care for her and take her out individually on a leash. But I’ve got a good routine down, especially in the morning when I get up and come downstairs. I’ve learned the trick to giving her all of her meds (of which she takes about 7 pills twice a day!) is to put them on top of wet/canned dog food. She pretty much will eat them like candy! Then I end by giving her a spoonful of just plain food (no pills) and give some to Brutus to for being a patient and calm observer. Lily and Brutus enjoy playing with each other (which is basically them growling and biting at each other over the baby fence) throughout the day. I really think that Lily enjoys the protection and peace and quiet of having her own room and playspace. She’s especially been loving laying on the dog bed and blanket that my  mom made to go in her crate during her recovery.  Isn’t it the cutest? It is cream-colored, which my mom picked on purpose to match her furry coat. Moms are just the best :).  Griffin enjoys being in the playpen with Lily and keeping her company. He usually takes in a puzzle or quiet toy to play with while he lays down beside her.  Our night time routine is obviously much different since Lily can’t navigate stairs for the next 2 months. So now it is just Brutus in Finn’s room during bedtime. He still is enjoying the cuddles. 

On April 1st we headed over to our neighbor Brian’s house to watch basketball and have dinner with some other neighbors. Being April Fools Day, Brian had a little joke to play on the kiddos.  Here they were eating an “oreo” after playing together.  Turns out the “cream” filling was toothpaste. Yucky!  Finn, however, actually likes mint flavor so he wasn’t too grossed out until the other kids started acting all silly about it and thinking it was gross.  He definitely didn’t like it, but also didn’t wig out over it.  It was funny to watch each of their reactions. 

And here are a few others from our week. Griffin really loves painting and working on art projects with Debbie. He got in a trip to library story time, we went to Mellow Mushroom for pizza dinner and the balloon artist made Griffin a batman, and the last one is our sweet little boy all cozied up after he’d fallen back asleep in my bed after finding me early in the morning!

And this video showed up in my Google Photos app, courtesy of Google. I thought it was pretty good – so I included it here.