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Charlie is getting so big, I think he's about 40 pounds now!!! We enrolled him in "puppy kindergarten" which starts in two weeks. There will be about ten other puppies - several labradors, a german shepherd, a mini poodligog and some others. I'm glad to hear there are other large breed pups for him to interact with. I can't believe we've had him for 10 weeks already, as well as 10 weeks only! He is looking so grown-up these days - his hair is getting all shiny and slick - not puppy-like fuzziness anymore. He spends a great deal of his day outside the crate now, now that he's so good at holding his pee. He's never once had an accident in the car, and this weekend he gets to go on a car-ride all the way to Santa Cruz for an extended playdate!
I didn't write this:
"The challenges of survivorship are many. More than anything else, it is the searing recognition of mortality that changes everything. From this moment forward, all of life will be viewed through a double lens as we appreciate the possibilities of both a long life and a greatly abbreviated one. This dual view may actually, over time, enrich our lives. We make a conscious and willing choice, each of us living with cancer, to go on, to take and to appreciate the darkness as well as the sunlight. We hold dear the night as well as the morning."
Charlie is 15 weeks tomorrow! He is growing like a weed, and has just passed 30 pounds now. His head alone looks like it weighs 30 pounds!!
He's learned so much in 7 weeks, and he's so incredibly well-mannered and smart! He learned how to shake in just 5 tries! He now knows sit, down, shake, stay, drop it, mealtime, bedtime, and soon he'll know heel. He played/terrorized two puppies the other night that were a third his size. I experience the true meaning of "puppy
dog eyes" every time I tell him it's bedtime. Could he be any cuter? Douglas loves Charlie and is desperate to be buddies, while wary of Charlie's size at the same time. Charlie tries to "shake" for Douglas, which never ends well!
Douglas is still ever-cuddly.
Nutsy and Joseph still like laying in the sun.
I still like Centro-matic.
