@ 2 years, 1 month: Bailey luvs wedding favors

We recently attended my brother's wedding, where they had doggie treat favors (peanut butter biscuits and whole wheat gingersnaps). Of course the husband took like 4 bags.


Bailey asks, why do you torture me so? (It's in the name of art! And dog training!)


This is Bailey's coy look.


The reward at last (just the fire hydrant...the other two cookies were for the photo). I'm sure the fire hydrant, bone, and heart shapes make them taste even better.


More, please?


Okay, but waaaaaiiit.....


Now, free to gobble!

@ 2 years, 1 month: Bailey and the smoked gouda-tomato-avocado-alfalfa sandwich

Bailey regards the sandwich:


The sandwich regards Bailey:

@ 2 years, 1 month: Bailey luvs baby showers, Roo, and maybe cats

Why watch people open gifts when you can watch the picnic table?


This is Roo, our friends' very cool Italian greyhound:


Outside, food distracted Bailey and Roo so much they didn't play at all, but inside, it was wrestling time, and tug-of-war time:


Bailey espies the cat:


Bailey pursues the cat:

@ 2 years, 1 month: dead-tired at the park

When Bailey gets really really really tired (e.g. after a tour of the Pooch Hotel + a romp around a dog park), he just collapses on the ground like this:


And here's a nice Kodak moment:

@ 2 years: under-pillow sleeping arrangement

Sleeping under things you should be sleeping on top of never gets old. See this sleeping arrangement from his first year.

@ 2 years: hot dog

Bailey likes lounging in sunny spots, and it's nice to be able to let him lounge outdoors in the enclosed patio.


But then he gets all hot and just sprawls there, panting heavily. It's definitely all that black fur that gets him so warm in the sun.


That's one hot, hot dog.

@ 2 years: sneaky sleepy time

You have roused Bailey from his sleepy-time place.


Bailey is allowed only on top of the comforter and [more or less] knows he's not allowed to make nests out of the bedding. But he does look so very comfortable.

@ 2 years: Bailey and the lemon

Bailey regards the lemon.


Bailey sniffs the lemon.


Bailey is bored and does not care for the lemon. But he is interested in what you are doing. Ideally whatever it is should end with him getting a treat of some sort.

@ 23 months: under covers

For some reason, Bailey sometimes likes to nudge around under this comforter. Bedskirts also confuse/intrigue him, maybe because we don't use one.

@ 22 months: so asleep

@ 22 months: Bailey luvs California dog parks too

Bailey's first road trip: day 4

Are we there yet?


Bailey enjoys the view. He seems to know that today is different.


The Bailey monster.


Bailey wants to move up front. Again.


Someone gets a snack on the road.


[Most of] all of us:


The Inspector checks over our final destination:


Gotta check over the patio wall:


Rawhide + dog bed makes any place feel like home:

Bailey's first road trip: day 3

Bailey watches the desert go by:


Bailey the Investigator checks the room over in Tehachapi, California:

Bailey's first road trip: day 2

At an Oklahoma rest stop:


Someone wants to sneak a snack:


Bailey luvs long indoor running spaces. He's settling into the routine of a new stop each night, although we wonder if he thinks we're homeless or on the lam.


Bailey waits [not quite as patiently as this looks] outside a convenience store.

Bailey's first road trip: day 1

Bailey's digs in the car:


Bailey would like to join u in the front of the car please:


Bailey becomes dubious of the situation (he did spend a little while facing the back of the car):


Bailey investigates at a southern Illinois gas station:


A sleepy puppy in cargo:


While he seemed to enjoy sniffing everything in the lobby and under every single door, Bailey spent a good while whimpering and hanging by the room door. He might think we can go back out the door and go home.


Bedtime in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Finally, Bailey is appeased by the king-sized bed.

Bailey's first road trip: pre-trip

Farewell, Chicago, we're headed to California. We're about to test just how much Bailey loves the car.

Bailey at the in-laws; little does he know what awaits him:


Bed-monstering at the in-laws:


The head of the bed is the best: