mmm...Artichoke!

mmm...Artichoke!, originally uploaded by Olive the pug.

I loooove to chew and I looove my cousins' artichoke toy! Ahooooo!

Guess what?!?!

We're moving!

And I thought I'd help with all the packing my moms have been doing. (That's why they haven't been helping me blog very much lately. Gee thanks.)

We are only moving just down the street, basically. We are moving into the apartment of the new building that my Aunt Bri owns. All sorts of craziness in that place, but nonetheless a great improvement on our current home. I think Mom will like not having to pick so much trash out of my mouth in the new neighborhood...hehee. Oh, also, unlimited playtime with my cousins Lexie and Gertie. I could never get tired of them!! (Mom's note: and laundry in the building, lower rent, and uh, my new nephew who will only be downstairs after he is BORN in 12 weeks or so!!!!!) So, stay tuned for more news on my adventures throughout the move and this beee-utiful Memorial Day weekend (whatever that is) leading up to the move full of nice weather in NYC and.....

packing!

Toodles!

She's crazy, I tell you

Olive barking loudly

Nat, looking at Olive: Did you just fart and then bark about it?

Jess-nutt: Did you really just ask her that?

Oh, how I'm going to miss her...

I am at work after dropping little Olive off at her Aunt and Uncle's house for the weekend. The Jess-ter and I are going back to Sm!th for their graduation festivities. I can't believe we were only doing that ourselves last year. Whoa. How time flies. Anyway, we dropped Olive off and she played with her cousins as energetically as she did last night so I'm not too worried about her(we decided on a third preliminary meeting with the cousins Lexie and Gertie last night), but it breaks my heart to be away from her. How do all of you ever part from your little one? It is going to be tough, but only 2 nights away from her.

We say weird things to dogs

Nat and I will occasionally talk to Olive in a more articulate way than she can probably understand. Often, Nat will try to rationalize with her, for example, and I often talk to her with overly detailed explanation. Seems like we're not alone, though. Lots of people talk to their dogs as if they were talking to another person, though not necessarily in more sophisticated language:

• Large black man to tiny dog with hacking cough: I told you three times already: Calm yo'self! --Cunningham Park, Queens
• Woman to her two dogs: Sit down... And don't steal anything. --Pet store, Park Slope
• Woman to dog barking at passerby: No, that's not appropriate. --70th & Amsterdam
• Toothless man on bike to Shih Tzu: You gotta watch out! Have some human food. Eat at a Chinese restaurant. You a classy dog! --10th & 6th

Even more.

"Quick! Gimme that jerky!" image by tanakawho.

White Wonder in Brooklyn

We've never seen one of these during our walks in Prospect Park:
Olive would go nuts over a white squirrel!

Don't cha just love PINK?!?!!

Hi everydoggy! Mom finally let me out of my jail cell to blog. I got ahold of the blog and made some adjustments, as you can see. Mommy helped me design my very own header and THEN I was left to my own devices. This is what I came up with. Teehee.

I also have some really LAME pictures no thanks to her. (What? It was Mother's Day already...I don't have to be nice to her anymore. Though, I did send her a card. In the MAIL. Bet most doggies my age can't do that.)

Anywhoo, we went to the park a lot this weekend.I got to meet my Auntie Beth. I put on my best face for her. I ate a lot of my Kong this weekend too. Mom embarrassed me and put up these pictures with it smeared all over my face.
I had a lot of naps this weekend.
Other than that, my mommies had to help at/enjoy the Brooklyn Design Show for Lexie Lew. Here is Brooklyn, where I live. Mommy took this picture when they were there.

Look at their booth! My "brother," Pimento, who looks like me but just sleeps all day and snores when you put his "batteries" in (whatever those are) , attracted a lot of visitors to the booth as he snored away in one of the beautiful dog beds at right.