It’s still pretty much all things puppy around here. We are all having fun with Brutus. I took this photo to document Brutus’ growth as he is definitely getting taller and longer!

Lately Griffin has been showing interest in wanting to take photos. He even goes and gets our nice camera and takes photos by looking through the eye-piece. He has captured some great ones of the dogs snuggling together. Brutus really loves to cuddle. If I’m around it is usually with me, but he often lays with Lily too – any and everywhere, in the closet, on the carpet, by Finn’s bed, and so on as you can see.  After Finn took some photos he then wanted to be in some.  I wanted to get one of the dogs’ feet together and he wanted to put his paw in too. You can also see his black eye here is healing and turning a bit yellow. He’s unbothered! Griffin took this one of me and sharkie and Brutus and the one of Brutus in the kitchen below. . Turned out great, eh? This is the typical scene for nap or bedtime. Reading Finn stories and the dogs cuddling on the floor!Brutus is a pretty photogenic pup and is also fairly good at listening when you ask him to sit. Especially if you have a treat to share! Nap or bed time starts like this. And ends like this! Brutus is chewing all sorts of toys and bones – and unfortuately a few human things too – like the zippers to both dog beds!!  Ugh, he chews them at the only end you can start the zipper essentially ruining the zipping ability. This mammoth bed that we’ve had forever is now in need of a repair person to put in a new zipper so we can put it back together. In the mean time they are laying on the floor instead!!Griffin is really enjoying being creative lately. He likes to play in his room with his legos and build all kinds of creations. He also really enjoys when you tell him a story or when he creates one to tell you. He has a really fun and creative imagination and we love hearing his stories! Debbie brought some fun markers this week that could be used on the windows. It was a nice and sunny day outside too so Finn colored some spring time images on the windows.  Art or creativity hasn’t ever been a gift of mine so we are thankful that Debbie loves to do art projects almost every day. Here they made stuffable mittens that they filled with letters and animals 🙂Finn enjoys are projects at preschool too! Seems hard to believe it is time for next year’s preschool registration, but the time has arrived. We signed Griffin up for his last year of preschool (!!) in the Monkey class for 2017-2018. He will be going 4 days a week next year!
On Saturday we celebrated Andy’s birthday with a nice dinner out followed by tasty carrot cake and ice cream at their house. Yummers!  On Sunday at the end of church we were talking with friends and one of them, Chris, asked us if we wanted to go to the OSU basketball game at 1:30.  Woah, that sounded like a fun time! So we booked it out of church and went home to feed the dogs. Then we put it in high gear to get to the game where we got to our seats just prior to tip off.  And the seats were GREAT! We are thankful for the fun afternoon and the generosity of Chris! Later that day Finn and I were in his room and Lily laid down behind the chair, a common place for her to be. Finn though Lily would enjoy being covered up by his stuffed animals so he “hid” her so she could sleep.  Can you find her?  And of course Brutus isn’t ever far away, so he crashed the party. Then Finn wanted to be in the photo too – pretending to sleep of course!