Wednesday Wonders

I wonder what ploy Stanley will try next in his attempts to keep me from going to work in the morning?

So, here's what usually happens:

He sleeps on my bed, and around 4am he stretches along the entire length of me and puts his head on my shoulder. I think "how cute, my doggy likes to spoon!"... little did I realize, the first time this happened, that it would be sooo hard to get out of bed! In the words of Charlie Brown, happiness is a warm puppy.

We have a little bit of a routine to start the morning... when my alarm goes off, he knows it's time to go outside, so he stretches out infront of my bedroom door- just incase I try to sneak by him, so he won't miss me. As soon as we get downstairs, before going outside, he goes to his toy basket and noses each of his 3 favorite toys. After going outside, he eats and then comes back up to my room and jumps up on the bed while I get ready... here's where the "fun" begins...

One night I gave him a bath in my bathroom because the other bathroom is still being set up, and the next morning when I turned my shower water on, he bolted onto my bed and under my covers. When I came out to see where he went, he was laying on my pillows with just his little head poking out from under the blankets!

When I get ready, he used to try to pull my blow dryer out of my hands. Then, he would whine and attach himself to my knee when I would open the drawer that had my makeup in it. He also will bring one of his toys upstairs and run around, playing fetch with himself. Sometimes he'll sit and whimper on my bed, and as soon as I open my sock drawer, he's attached to my knee again. He's tried laying on my shoes, which doesn't work because I get another pair of shoes. After that didn't work, he tried parking himself infront of the laundry room door to the garage. Then it was infront of the hall door to the laundry room.

Lately he's also been laying in my closet, trying to be in the way as much as possible! Yesterday, he brought all three of his biggest toys upstairs, in my closet, and laid them out like a mine field, laying down with them!

Today he has his purple octopus up here, and he's diligently chewing it. Every now and then he will poke his head around the screen on my laptop and lick the keyboard.

I wonder what he'll try next?