I Am Three!

Today is my birthday and I am three years old. I can’t believe how quickly I am growing up – I feel like I am already in my twenties!

It is a beautiful sunny day although it is very cold. To celebrate my birthday, mummy, daddy and I went for a long hike around the Marin Headlands. 

As it is Christmas, and it’s my birthday, I was allowed to wear my Christmas ruff to show everyone that it is my special day!

On the way, daddy found a big stick for me to play with. I love chewing sticks and this one was a particularly good one!  

For a change, daddy let mummy take some photos. Here's Daddy and I posing at the top of the Marin Headlands.

Half way through our walk we stopped to look at the old gun batteries at an old World War II site called Fort Cronkhite. I have no idea what gun batteries are but I suspect that quite a few of my two-legged friends have been there as I could smell their marks all over the place. Here’s mummy and I peeking in to one that daddy was exploring – don’t worry. He didn’t leave any marks.

 

Further along on our hike we came across a super picnic spot.

Our hike was very long but it was worth it as we went really high and could look down on the San Francisco coast. I think that this is what it must be like to fly like a bird – a beautiful bird, that is. Not those nasty crows that I bark at outside the house….

A Merry Milo Christmas!

I love Christmas!! It’s always so exciting because there are lots of new toys, lots of food and I get to spend a lot of time at home with mummy and daddy. This year I got to spend extra time with daddy as he was off work for a while before Christmas. His doctor fixed his elbow as it had been hurting him for a year. I just recently found out that I have a possible tear in my back knee and very early stage arthritis in my hips, so daddy and I can hang out on the TV rug together and get well again.

In preparation for Christmas, mummy put up a Christmas tree. It looked beautiful - all sparkly lights and baubles. It sits on top of the counter so I can't accidentally knock it over or get my tail caught in it. Instead of putting a fairy on top of our tree, we had a silver silhouette of me with a star on my tail! I think I look much better up there than the fairy, although some of my two-legged friends seemed to think I was doing something naughty on top of the tree!

On the morning of Christmas Day, I was allowed up on the bed with mummy and daddy and we had a Christmas cuddle. I love starting the day off that way - their bed is much bigger than mine. I like daddy to wrap me up in the duvet so that I can pretend that I am in a den.

It’s a tradition but every year I take mummy and daddy out for a Christmas hike. It’s great for working up an appetite for Christmas dinner. The weather was drizzly and cold this year but we still had a romp up on Ring Mountain. The view over to the city wasn’t bad either.

When we got back from our Christmas hike, we opened our presents. I had loads more than anyone else!!

I even got a Christmas sweater!! Apparently this is a human tradition at Christmas time. I suspect that humans probably feel much the same about their Christmas sweaters as I did about mine...

Another Christmas tradition is to watch a film and fall asleep. That tradition is not too difficult for me as I always fall asleep on the TV rug! I am off to do that right now, so this is Milo wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!!!

Crash! Bang! Wallop!

The last few months of the year have been spent listening to building. Mummy and daddy decided that instead of moving to another house, we would stay where we are and make the family room/office more usable. I'm not sure what they meant because I used it a lot. Sometimes as a place to sleep or sometimes a place to go if my tummy was upset and I couldn't get outside fast enough. 

The new room took a long time to build. Crash, bang, crash, bang. I haven't been able to find a cozy, quiet place to sleep anywhere in the house. It has also been so dusty that it made my nose itch so much that I had to keep wiping it on the carpet to stop it tickling. Mummy and daddy had no idea about all the noise and dust (or my wiping my nose on the carpet!) as they were at work all day while I was stuck at home. Mind you, I became good friends with the builders and they fed me burritos for lunch, so it hasn't all been bad. In addition, I now have a brand new TV room. There is a huge furry rug that daddy and I stretch out on together. If the film is particularly bad, we sleep on the rug together too.