Morning Everybody! Today is officially Pi day. You know, 3.1415… Day. One our applicants wrote an extended essay about how she celebrates March 14th in recognition of the esteemed number- for obvious reasons- don’t you? Hee hee. One of my colleagues decided to follow in the applicant’s footsteps and will bring in two different pies for us to share during our committee discussions today. Ahh, we must all be overtired, but having another reason to celebrate and get our minds off of all of the files we are reading is welcome. I really am lucky to work with a group of wonderful people. At this busy time of year I’m never more grateful to have well intentioned, fun, open, supportive folks here in the office.
So, right now I’m getting ready for a meeting and thought I would write a short post on our day yesterday. We woke up to another almost 80 degree morning (gorgeous) and a puppy who was READY TO PLAY. We found someone else’s kickball in our backyard and after promptly popping it with her puppy teeth Penelope decided it was THE PERFECT TOY. She and Dad have enjoyed it on several different potty trips since. She had her third Vet trip at 5 p.m. last night and Dr. Mangelsdorf thinks she is doing very well! She’s now up to 29.4 lbs from 18 at our last appointment (holy cow) and after one more set of vaccinations (which will be complete in the next two weeks) we’ll be able to take her to the dog park for some play time with other dogs. Yahoo! We also set up her spay appointment for May 17th and got her starter Frontline medication (to ward off flees and ticks). Now- we also learned that this time of year is the time when typical puppies root out spring bugs to munch on which can lead to upset tummies and vomiting. Ugggh, I’m praying she’ll be grossed out by 8 legged friendsJ. All in all, things are fantastic with her. We are noticing some welcomed behavioral changes with the puppy play biting (our hands are noticeably less scarred) and around other people she now promptly SITS in a perceived effort to be polite when she greets them. It is VERY sweet. She still seems a little unsure of herself around other dogs (especially ones that are larger than her) but we expect that will change with more exposure and time. She met a handsome yellow lab at the Vet yesterday (Brodie) who was only one month older than her and he wanted desperately to play and she just sort of flirted with the idea. Jumping around a lot but never close enough to let any touching occur. Admittedly he had a loud bark and the owner didn’t seem to have a whole lot of control over his jumping yet- AND he HAD to have been at least 20 or 30 lbs larger than her… but, we were hopeful that she would think he was fun. In time. After the vet appointment Jonathan and I picked up our online grocery shopping order, unpacked at home and then, you guessed it, headed back to my office.
I had some clean up work to do on the files I’d been working with throughout the day and some phone calls to make regarding the upcoming Day for Admitted Students event I’m coordinating on April 8th. It was nice to have him with me for the evening. If I was really honest I’d tell you all that we stopped at Brewsters for ice cream AGAIN (yup, two days in a row) on our way home from my office, but I hear white lies are o.k. sometimes so I’ll avoid sharing that little embarrassing tidbit with you. (We are addicted.) It was an early bedtime for us and now… here we are again! I think we are going to make a curry chicken dish for dinner tonight –YUM. More later! Have a wonderful afternoon.
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