MommyOf1plus2plus1: Millie's Zoo

Millie has reached the age where she really loves her pets and loves interacting with them, and being fascinated by their goofy antics, anticipating their next move etc. I think it is funny how all of our kids have learned very quickly that if you have food in your hand, the dogs will take it, so you have to keep it out of their reach. So, the logical way to do that when you are 3 ft tall? Hold it over your head. Millie will walk into a room with her cracker in hand, yell at the dogs to announce she has something they will want "Eh!" (said in her authoritative stern voice) and then promptly hold it up on her head.

Rudy loves all of his kids, but in his old age he has adopted the "I'm old and entitled" attitude that we watched Yeller adopt when he got old and moldy. Rudy will now not only try to take the food, but will get the entire hand in his mouth and hold it there until the angry crying child submisses and lets go, about the same time the Mama Bear flies across the room to intervene and throw him outside for a while!

Corsi is an opportunist, always has been and always will be. She will wait for someone to get out of their seat and then jump into it, because it is pre-warmed. She waits for the kids to go to bed so she can go snuggle with one, then the next, then the next. She waits for Millie to let her guard down and take the replacement cookie off of her head (remember, Rudy took the first one) then she will globber on it with her nasty huge tongue and take it, but quickly get back into her sloth like state before anyone knows why the baby is crying.

Elbert is still in his "I am a lab and need to please" mode and is pretty polite and will usually wait until Millie sticks the cracker in his face before he'll take it. Of course she isn't sticking it in his face to offer it to him, it is more of the "lookey what I have, and you don't!" stick, but tell that to a lab and his never full stomach!

Last night she climbed onto a kitchen chair that the kids had parked in the 'big kids room' and enjoyed watching Toto the Turtle eat his food. She was fascinated and would yell "Hey!" each time he opened wide to take a bite. He isn't a typical turtle and isn't shy, in fact it seems as though he quite likes the audience the kids provide!

She adored Putter when he was with us briefly. She seemed to love the idea of having something that was small and fun, just like her! Too bad Mommy didn't adore cleaning up after him, see ya Putter!

SO, she is a little Dr Doolittle in training, just like her Mom!