- He was my best Christmas present ever. ♥ I think I unwrapped a rope bone and thought it was too, too wonderful to really be true
- And we went to get him on New Years Eve. We wanted a tri-color puppy, and I picked Whittaker. ♥
- When he was a baby and slept in a box in our room, until he learned how to jump out, and Daddy caught me and Whit asleep on my bed all curled up and he thought it was funny, even though Whit wasn't allowed on the furniture
- Dog training with Aunt Faye
- When we tried to pin his ears down like Shelties' ears go, and they kept popping up so we decided to leave them quirkily as they were
- How he always knew the second I was making dog biscuits, when I got the bowl out, and came and sat beside me and made me give him dog biscuit dough
- And Daddy's popcorn :)
- How he laid on the stair landing all the time and expected you to walk around him
- And in the doorways
- How he always, always knew when I was sad and tried to kiss it better
- When he wanted toys and Cimmi didn't, and she took the toys and he was too afraid to take them away from her
- Rowdy games of fetch down the hall
- When he stole our sandwiches off the kitchen table
- When he herded us on the swingset
- When he herded us on our bikes
- When he made us CRASH our bikes
- When Mamsy told him he needed a day job down the road herding sheep
- When he ate a plate of buckeyes on Christmas Eve and regretted it
- When we tried to teach him how to run through a hula hoop (and, in our dreams, jump) and he was afraid of it
- When I was gone at camp, and Mamsy asked him, "Where's Talia?" and he barked
- How he used to jump up on the windowsills and scratch them up
- How the only time he ever growled at someone, it was Ashley's mom, and Ashley thought it was hysterical
- When he broke the butter dish on the front porch and frightened himself, and all he was trying to do was eat the butter
- At my senior photo shoot, when he was nervous to death he was going to get in trouble if he sat on the hay bale
- When he started associating the Mihojeviches in general and Colleen in particular with Cheez-Its and stalked her everywhere she went
- When Quimby came over and he wanted to play and she didn't, and she was mean to him and he was still happy and wagging his tail
- When he got hit in the head with a baseball and was sooooo dizzy but then was like, Hey guise, let me back in the game!
- How he was so sweet, he licked the guinea pig and the bunny
- How we alternated being pillows: he was mine, and I was his
- Whittaker kisses, ALWAYS.
oct 6 2010 ∞
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