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I figured the last post about Grace’s weight was incomplete without some pictures to go along… so, here you go.

It wasn’t until I took these off the camera that I realized how incredibly goofy she is on a regular basis - we just take it for granted and don’t notice it too much anymore, I guess.

She has this thing where she grabs her leash and prances around the house with it and then tangles herself up all in it. It’s a riot!

So here’s the big girl. Does she look 83 pounds to you? She doesn’t to me!

You can see the rest on my Flickr. There are some cute ones there, so be sure to check them out. You know you can’t resist Chocolate Lab puppy pics! :-)

Oh my goodness! Rob has been telling me for about a week now that he thinks Grace has gotten bigger and has to weigh a lot. I agreed that she was getting bigger, but I was thinking 70 pounds - max. Well, Rob hopped on the scale and weighed himself, then picked up Grace (and about threw his back out! ha!) and did the math. Turns out our “little girl” is now 83 pounds big! Yikes! She will be 9 months old in a few days. I wonder if she’ll grow much more? We thought she would be big when we got her because of the size of her paws, but I just don’t see her as being massive right now. She is very compact, and carries her weight well, I guess. That’s my girl! Heh!

I finally found the collar I wanted for Grace, and it came in the mail yesterday. Check out how big my little girl is getting. And isn’t she just beautiful in her new collar? It’s a Vera Bradley original. I love the red on her and it matches her plain red leash, but I’m thinking she might also look really pretty with Petal Pink … and Java Blue for the fall. How bad is my Vera Bradley habit when I want to have multiple color collars for my dog? Shut up.

Now I just need to get the coordinating leashes.

I freaking rule.

When we first moved into this house, there was ugly wall-to-wall carpeting through out with a ceramic tile foyer area by the front door. Underneath the carpeting was beautiful hardwood floors, so we ripped all the carpeting up, but left the tiled area by the foyer because we weren’t sure what the floors would look like underneath. Rob tried to get a tile up at one point, but only ended up breaking a piece of it off and there was another layer of linoleum underneath. So for almost the entire past year, we’ve lived with this ugly foyer area that drove me crazy. I hated walking into the house and seeing the floor a mess, even if it was mostly covered with a throw rug.

Today at lunch, Grace peed there (she still has pee accidents by the front door if we don’t get to her in time. WHEN will that stop????) and when I was cleaning it, I noticed the pee was just seeping up through the tiles (ewwwwww). I started to lift it, because I could tell it was loose. Sure enough, those top tiles came right up. I started pulling up the second layer of tiles, too, and they were coming up with no problem, too. The hardwood underneath looked to be in reasonable shape, so I was excited to get home tonight and finish the job.

As soon as I got home, I finished getting all of the tiles up as well as most of the adhesive on the floor. It only took me a little more than an hour. The floor is still a little sticky, I’ll have to get that all cleaned up this weekend, but I don’t think it will be too bad. I’ve got a throw rug over it now in the mean time. The wood is in decent shape - there will have to be a couple of boards replaced eventually, but right now it looks a million times better than the old tile area did. I’m thrilled!

Now if we could just get Grace to stop having accidents!

[tags]hardwood floors, puppy house training home improvement[/tags]

Grace had her first full day after the operation at home today. We let Connor stay home from school to be with her. The possibility of her licking the wound all day while being alone scared us, and Connor certainly didn’t complain about getting to stay home. She’s supposed to not get up and down from the couch or go up and down stairs. It’s kind of hard to prevent the couch thing because she is so quick. She got down the stairs in a flash two times already, too. Her wound looks okay, but a little red and swollen tonight. I asked Rob if we could give her a Benadryl tomorrow to sedate her, but I don’t know if it would. I did research giving it to her, and we could give her 50mg since she weighs about 55 pounds. I’m just not sure if we want to do it or not. We’ll see what tomorrow brings.

Thanks for everyone’s good thoughts for her - they must have worked! :-)