Sleeping with my dog

I am not a huge fan of letting my dog sleep with us at night, but sometimes if I am not feeling good or want to take a nap, I let her onto the bed. In the mornings, whom ever gets up first, wakes the other by letting the dog into the bedroom. Now it is usually me letting Kai wake my husband. She grabs his hand or sticks her nose under the blankets where he hides. Today I did not have to go to work, so I decided to sleep in a bit. My husband, decided to let the dog in the room, tit for tat. Kai found me gave me morning kisses and then settled herself in the crook of my knees and went to sleep. I guess it backfired for Jim, he came to say goodbye an hour later. So much for a wake up call.

snow fetch

This is a lively game and gives Kai much exercise. After trying to take her on a walk and realizing that I was going to have a potential fall, I decided to cut our walk short. When I came home I tossed Kai a snowball, she would run to find the snowball slide in the snow and completely cover the snow ball. Then she would stick her nose in the snow trying to locate the ball. Impossible, so when she came up for air, I had another snowball prepared. Repeat, repeat repeat. She was always so excited to see that I had the ball. She would come running back to me and try to anticipate where I was going to throw it. Then off again, slide, no snowball. So once I just threw it at her feet, where she tried to pick it up and ended up eating it. She loves the snow and is currently outside playing in it. She will come in when her feet need warming. She always does.

Warm Winter Weather

What is better than 60+ degrees in the middle on February-nothing. Kai is outside just having a wonderful time. She has not been in all day. Friday is going to get colder so she will be stuck inside once again. The only problem with her being outside is barking every time she sees a dog walk by. We have many dogs in our neighborhood and on a day such as this, lots of walkers. Why am I inside? I am trying to catch up on housework. Kai is not happy because I have not gone out and thrown a ball with her all day, but she has only come in once to look at me with her big brown eyes. I love that she loves being outside.
She had a special treat this weekend, my kids came home to celebrate their dad's birthday. We decided to watch a movie at home and Kai sat right between my kids. She usually does not do that, but she was extremely happy to see them. At first she barked and barked, when they came in the door. She is really good with intruder alerts. Then the barking got less and less as she caught their scent and realized who it was. Then she was all puppy jumping, cuddling and giving kisses. It made me happy too, knowing that she is such a loving dog. I also loves that she barks when someone unannounced comes in the  back door. She did this once while I was in my bedroom and when I came out my backdoor was open. I am glad she was home and barking that time.