Merry Christmas

Looks like Santa's made a visit to our house early this year

Ho ho ho!

New friend, "puffer dog"

We tease Mollie that if she eats too much she will eventually look like puffer dog

Mollie's also been exploring a new career as a videographer

Random photos 2012

I like big butts and I cannot lie

Mollie is not impressed

Waiting for Daddy to come home

Mollie can do Downward Dog better than you.

Happy 1st Birthday!

Her birthday was on May 14. She got a new cupcake toy!

 Hooray!

*squeak squeak squeak*

Though she didn't seem to appreciate her birthday hat as much.

Belly scratch

Feet-kicking action to the max!

Nom nom nom

Mmm... apples...

Mollie gets spayed!

Mollz recently turned 6 months and finally got spayed! The first night she was extremely drugged up.

"Huh...? My ovaries are gone, you say? Wait... what's an ovary..... are they yummmyy?"

"Sleeeepy....... sleeeeeeep....is goooood."

She recovered quickly and was back to bouncing off the walls within two days.

She even had a little bonding experience with a (empty) trash can:

At first, she didn't quite know what was going on... and then...

"O NOES I'M IN A TRASH CAN!!!!!"

Couch dog

Recently she's discovered a new hiding place -- under the couch. Though soon she's going to be too fat to fit.

Drumsticks, anyone?

Tricks at 5 months

And why it takes 5 minutes for her to learn a trick but 5+ months to potty train is beyond me. She's doing better but will still have an occasional accident when we're not watching her. And I KNOW she can hold it; she just doesn't want to. A few days ago she pooped in the living room, and that was the last straw. Being the tech geeks that we are, we decided to take some drastic measures and set up a surveillance system in our living room to spy on her from another room (to trick her into thinking we aren't watching her) and then catch her in time when she has an accident. Every angle of the room was covered. We used 6 Skype accounts, 4 computers, and 2 virtual machines. Yes, I know - we are ridiculous, insane, and evil. But frankly, it doesn't matter how cute a dog is or how many tricks it knows; if it's not potty trained, nothing else matters!!! It's been our biggest headache ever since we got her, and we've tried everything else - so just doing whatever it takes!

"Hmm... I feel like I'm being watched..."

Mollie visits Stanford

It was a gorgeous Saturday, so we decided to head to Stanford for some doggy exercise and fun. As usual, there were hordes of tourists and wedding photoshoots near the Oval and quad area.

Mollie's first order of business was to take a dump! Clearly, she has her priorities straight. It's OK, I'm sure Stanford can afford some good fertilizer for their lawn.

"Uh oh! I hope I'm not in somebody's wedding shoot!"

That's alright, Mollie. Even if you were, at least you look cute taking a crap. It'd be a bonus in any wedding photo ;-)

"Ahh... all done now. That felt good. Now let's go explore!"

Later that afternoon, being fans of Steve Jobs, we headed over to the Apple store on University Ave. in Palo Alto to pay our respects at his "memorial." Mollie did too.

It's OK, Mollie. Mommy misses Steve Jobs, too :-(

Calendars are ready!

The 2012 calendars are ready for purchase! Hooray! I'll be ordering one from Zazzle because that one has nicer typography and it looks cleaner (Zazzle also has a 25% off coupon for calendars.) All proceeds go to a corgi rescue -- so buy one to support a good cause :) Mollie is also on the front cover -- woohoo!!!

Last weekend we went to Fort Funston, a dog-friendly national park near San Francisco with scenic coastal views and trails, and a beach! We saw a few corgis and corgi mixes. Mollie played with a 7-month old corgi puppy for a long time. Too much cuteness.

Oh, and a somewhat amusing yet unfortunate thing: I've realized every time we trim her nails she vomits afterwards from all the "trauma". Poor thing. She'll yelp in pain when we trim them, but I don't think we've ever cut into the quick because she's never bled and we're really careful. I guess she just hates it. Last night we cut her nails and expected her to vomit, but she just went to her crate and slept away the distress (or so we thought). And this morning after breakfast, she puked! Delayed reaction! The amusing thing is her puke is solid kibble, but just really soggy. She doesn't chew her kibble! And then she'll try to eat it back up, like "OOOOO, goodie, more food magically appeared! Nom nom nom! I should just puke all the time!!" -_-