Pawsitively Kimmy

Three Hundred and Seventy Three Paws

Dear Snoring Brothers,

Hello sweet ones. You’re both quite sleepy today. I’m thinking it’s because one of you has teeth coming into your gums, and for the other brother, well you had some post bedtime excitement and talked to yourself until you snoozed later in the evening. This is what I always say to you two, “When Kimmy says it’s sleep time, she means business.” I don’t know why humans have such a problem with, the sleep department. I love to sleep. I sleep anywhere and all the time… for example, I can sleep on a couch, I can sleep on a doorway, I can sleep on the grass, I can sleep on the towel, I can sleep on the concrete patio, I can sleep on the wood floor, I can sleep in the car, I can sleep anywhere I choose. How about you?

xo,

Kimmy

Three Hundred and Seventy Two Paws

Dear Brothers,

Yesterday was quite the morning time. Yes, that’s what I said, yesterday was quite a morning. Meaning, it was the morning-ist day of them all. I. Had. A. Bath. It wiped me out completely until supper time and a walk. I mean, I can always be roused for a bit of sustenance and walking time as a family. Mama and daddy think that I won’t leave the house without the entire family and, they could be quite right, but I also could be swayed to keep walking once we’re out on the road. I just have this little twinge in my heart when we are not altogether.

Life as a pack is complete when we are together. And so, together we must be! Especially in this little season of life, nap life, doggy life, home life we me, Kimmy. I love it. I really do. And you know what? My little tiny fish friend Owen, my tiniest of tiny brothers, he had a bath and fish tank clean out today too, so, I don’t feel so bad about my bath anymore.

xo,

Kimmy

Three Hundred and Seventy One Paws

Dear Boys,

Hello, from the floor. I KNOW, I know, I said, floor. Who am I? I mean really? I’m laying on the floor now… I guess I really am the dog of the house. I do have a little bit of a confession about it… there is a pillow aka blanket fort on the floor next to your round play table IRB. I’m really enjoying this bed LDB, thanks for leaving it for me. Mama thought she was foiling my plan to relax on her bed, but nooo, I found an even better one! Haha! Kimmy strikes again. I’m so smart and capable. At this point, you could probably leave me in charge and I could handle it all. Well, maybe not, on second thought, you two brothers do get into a lot of shenanigans. So, perhaps that’s not what I’m thinking. Anyway, in the long run, I’m enjoying the peace and quiet of this solitude nap and all that it brings into my doggy life.

xo,

Kimmy

Crossed paws, waiting for bed time to roll out.

Three Hundred and Seventy Paws

Dear Little Brothers,

Greetings, from the couch. Did you know that whenever you nap, I nap too? That’s why it’s so important that you both get your nap time in. You used to nap for two and a half hours lil LDB dude. Now it’s more like an hour and a half, which I know is fine, things change, you’re taller for instance, but still, I need more quiet nap time. Now IRB you take a few naps on some days and on other days you’ll take a couple of naps, that’s all well and good tiny human.

However, I’d like to propose something, what if I helped you with your naps? I could snooze under your bed, or on the human bed in your room, or on the floor…. or on a blanket on the human bed, in your room… what do you think of that? Momma, are you listening to this? I tried this a few times with LDB and it worked just fine. Momma and daddy had to search high and low to find me, but I was snoozing peacefully in the corner of the room helping LDB off to dream land. Mama came in and guided me out of his room. Bella did this a few times too, come to think of it. I didn’t know that the four legged creatures wouldn’t be welcomed into the dream space of the tiny humans after story time. I’d like to work this in, in some way, shape or form. I have a lot to offer sleep time. Like, for instance, I can snore really loudly, that’s super soothing, isn’t it? I can also sniff, ear flap, run in my sleep, and moan, all of which are great forms of communicating while sleeping. So, as you can see, I have a lot to offer dream time. What do you say brothers?

xo,

Kimmy

Three Hundred and Sixty Nine Paws

Dear Brothers,

Hello there. I have a little diddy that I wrote for you in this letter. It goes something like this, “The sun has come out, it’s tomorrow, bet you thought that Kimmy’d like this song too! I knew there’d be suuuuuun. The sun has come out, tomorrow, I love that we have some romp and play time! I love youuuuuuuu. When I think of a day, that’s gray and lonely, I just stick out my paw, and pant, and sayyyyyy, -aaaayyyyyyy, the sun’ll come out tomorrow, bet your last stick out there that tomorrow, they’ll be suuuuuun, it’s play time, it’s play time! Tomorrow, we’ll have play time! It’s only a waaaa-aaaaag, awayyyyyy!” What do you both think?

Did it sound like that song mama sings to us about tomorrow from some musical called, “Annie?” Do you know the song I am referring to dudes? I listen closely when mama is singing the songs because she’s always changing the lyrics up and I wanted to try that too. So, I did. How about that. I liked the opportunity to shift our letters from merely words to, ahem, lyrics. Maybe I should put my paws down from this keyboard and try my paw at song writing? I’ll check in with mama and daddy and see what they think. They’re more aficionados at this type of thing. I’ll check back in tomorrow. Haha, get it tomorrow? That’s what I was singing about!

xo,

Kimmy

Three Hundred and Sixty Eight Paws

Dear Brothers,

Hello! Today is one of those glum, ho-hum, didiley dum days again. In fact, it is so glum that it has rain, rain, rained. I’m not sure where the sunshine went to! In fact, yesterday you predicted that it would be, and I quote, “Yucky weather,” today LDB. I guess you were spot on with your prediction. Perhaps you could be a weather person in the future? What do you think of that? You could stand up in a tower, or drive around in a van and chase extreme weather, or make forecast predictions based on your computer data, or something or other like that.

Golly gee, there was the loudest sound that happened just now dudes! I was sleeping soundly on mommy and daddy’s bed, as I do quite frequently and a car revved it’s engine so loudly that I jumped a bit and mama was startled too. This letter is a little bit all over the place, but, “that’s ok,” as our parents like to say.

I was looking out the window after that loud sound and I noticed that the rain is hopping back upwards once it hits the fence. That’s how you know it’s a super rainy day. Maybe we’ll enjoy some cuddles later this afternoon or a walk if the rain clears up… hehe, wishful Kimmy thinking over here!

xo,

Kimmy

Can you see me, I’m hidden in with the irises…

Three Hundred and Sixty Seven Paws

Dear Brothers,

It is I, Kimmy, your doggy friend. There seems to be a rumbling as of late about trying to opt out of naps or bed time. We’re just not going to have that little ones, now are we? I need my sleep. I must get my fifteen naps, minimum, to feel my perky dog best. Right now I’m kind of in hibernation mode. I adapt to my earthly surroundings and try to best fit the weather. The sky is telling me it’s dreary with teary raindrops and that sleep is best, for all of us right now. So, did you hear that wee ones?

Sleep, is, best. Ha. (I tried mama….) Sometimes mama and I team up to take care of you both. Who am I kidding?! We always team up to take care of you guys with daddy too. Life wouldn’t be the same without a team effort made by all who live in our home. There are times when we’re tired and or struggling, but we lean on one another. Or, rather, I lean, literally upon momma and daddy to make sure that they remember I’m there to help out too. I love you little guys!

Sleepless on the couch,

Kimmy dog

Three Hundred and Sixty Six Paws

Dear Little Ones,

Happy almost weekend time to you both! It feels like it’s been a long doggy week. We’ve had five full days of play, running around, crying, singing, flopping, cuddling, teaching, and reading. I’m plumb tucker worn out little guys! In fact, I am so tired that I just laid down on, gulp, my own bed! That’s how tired I am! You would have thought that I would take advantage of an empty cozy momma and daddy bed, but nope! Not the case! I decided to stick with my bed of linens on the cozy cushion old foam pad of a bed.

My bed is what mama likes to call, “Reduce, reuse, and recycle it up!” She and daddy do that a lot in our house and back yard. We reuse what we have to make it new for us! You do that too LDB, and I guess you do as well tiniest of all, IRB. Do you want to know why? Well I shall tell you! We all share toys, and or clothes, toys, and objects are passed from one use or person to another. It’s a pretty cool cycle if you think about it! And then, you might be wondering, what happens to it when we’re all finished with the cycle? Well, we clean it, donate it, or recycle it! Yay! I think, maybe I was feigning excitement there for a moment. Could you tell? Well, off to dreamy land!

xo, Kimmy-Kim your faithful friend

Three Hundred and Sixty Five Paws

Dear Brothers,

Hello there lil ones. I would like to confess something. It’s a little bit hard to do, but here goes, I don’t like it when you both cry. Ahhh, that feels better to have gotten that off of my doggy heart. Sometimes I get so wrapped up in your feelings that I get a tummy ache and I barf a little bit. That’s why mama and daddy take me outside before I get really sick. Some how the fresh air helps me to calm down, and I sniff, sniff, sniff, and then I miraculously feel better. It’s interesting how a little bit of fresh air and nature will cure an ailment.

It’s not that I don’t appreciate your feelings, or understand the sadness that can come on suddenly, I just feel a lot of things as your doggy friend and I worry about my babies. I love you both so much that I want to try and fix things. I will circle around and around you or nose your body, or mom or daddy’s to try and help somehow. Maybe that’s some kind of instinctual doggy business that I’m doing. It just comes to me to move my body in a way that makes me feel like I’m helping you. On that note, I’m going to help you both play in dream land. Let’s chase some squirrels!! Are you ready? On your mark, get set, GO! Follow meeeee!

xo,

Kimmy

Patiently waiting for any baby food that comes my way…

Three Hundred and Sixty Four Paws

Dear Brothers,

Shalom! It seems to be that time again when all is seemingly quiet, you’re sleeping, I’m sleeping, we’re all sleeping, clearly. The house is quiet, and the only ones stirring are momma and daddy. Well, they’re busy typing away, so they could have fingers that make the pitter patter of mouse feet sounds now couldn’t they? Ha! I jest…

Now, let’s get to it! Did you enjoy the snow shine yesterday LDB? We had a fun time romping around in the slush for the little bit of time that it fell! I think you might have been thinking that it would fall in great big pillow feather like amounts, but alas, it was quite wet by the time it hit the ground making it the unfortunate accommodation of slush-snow. You seemed thrilled to run, play, and splash in muddy puddles. I ran around and around too and then I had my paws wiped before I could play in the house again. Your red car sure took a toll on the driveway of slush! You deemed the dirt hill a mountain and ran your car down the hill and driveway over and over again. The only reason I know this information is because I guarded you from the windows. I do have to give mama some credit though. She did a pretty nice job of keeping up with you and your adventures outside. I love watching you play. Maybe one day we’ll have sunny skies and more dry grass again. When that happens we can lay down in it together and get cozy, as you like to say.

I love you LDB and IRB. My snoozy bro’s.

xo,

Kimmy