By mike
christi has been encouraging koda to eat spiders. if she sees a spider, she tells koda to go get it! instead of stomping on it with his paw like i thought he would, he went up and just ATE IT.
i don’t get it, but he doesn’t seem to be grossed out by it. i think he may even like the challenge of food that he has to chase. i’ve seen him do it once already and christi tells me that she is going to keep encouraging him to eat them. she reasons that it is better that he eats them than the spiders eating us.
next time i see him eat a spider, i’m going to encourage him to give christi a big kiss. ewwww!
By mike
we don’t know what happened, but koda chipped a tooth pretty bad the other day. we had it looked at and his vet said that he would recommend pulling the tooth. christi, unsure about whether or not to pull the tooth, made an appointment with a doggy dentist for a consult. yes. you read that right. a doggy dentist.
the doggy dentist told us that since the chipped tooth was so bad (down to the root), he recommends getting his tooth pulled. he also informed us that koda has two extra teeth in his mouth, so he would have recommended pulling a tooth or two anyway so that it gives some room for the rest of the teeth to grow. dog’s teeth don’t fully mature until 18 months, so koda has some time for the rest of his teeth to grow.
right now, he’s got a big gap in the front of his mouth!
By mike
so let’s recap a little about what has been going since the he said/she said blog ended…
OCT08: to celebrate our one year anniversary, we went on a (delayed) honeymoon trip to italy. i think that when i told christi that we were going to go to italy, she was shocked. i don’t think that she was expecting to hear that as a destination for us. our trip to italy was fantastic and we had a great time there. oh, and koda got bigger.
NOV08: thanksgiving came and went, but probably the most exciting thing this month was that we went to our first couples massage. that was really kind of nervous for me, but after it was all said and done, i have to say that it was pretty good. oh, and koda got bigger.
DEC08: december was full of dinners, get-togethers, and other holiday things. koda was just finishing up his first puppy classes and he was really starting to listen to us. there was also the glorious day o’ LAN partying. i haven’t LAN partied since. oh yeah, and koda got bigger.
JAN09: january was a pretty stressful time, work for me was really starting to hit a critical point and i was getting really burned out. our friends cheryl and greg moved into their new place which just reminded me about how long we have lived in our place and how much stuff still needed to be done around the house. oh, and koda got bigger.
FEB09: of course, february means superbowl sunday! we had a big party of people here enjoying the game in its HD projector glory. good times. christi and i went for a weekend getaway at sonoma. we brought koda with us and he seemed stressed out, but he still got bigger.
MAR09: christi spent most of this month training in preparation for a union strike at her company. this training required her to climb 25 foot poles… one of the days got cancelled due to high winds and someone had to be rushed to the hospital the day before. koda still got bigger, though.
APR 09: april was pretty quiet. i started a new job at the end of march and i was just trying to settle in. i was stressed out from all that i had to learn and my nights and weekends were pretty busy. oh yeah, koda still got bigger.
and that brings us to may. there have been heat waves and then some cold spells. some rain and some sun. and we’ve just started koda up on his second session of puppy training. christi says he has stopped growing for a few months now, but i still think that koda is getting bigger. he barely fits in our house now.
By mike
after the server crash with no backups, it was hard for me to want to try to get the better-together.us pages back up. there would be so much work to do and i just wasn’t sure if i was ever up for it again.
the he said/she said blog was a lot of work because we would always end up having to blog at the same time and the time sensitivity of it all was just a lot of pressure to try to find something witty or interesting to say.
it’s been almost two years now since we have gotten married and so much has come to pass in that time.
christi doesn’t know it yet, but i’m bring the better-together.us pages back with a new blog. maybe she’ll blog too, we’ll see!
