Hi Amy,
It was great to see you today! It was nice to get to chat. Here are the pictures of The Dog that you asked me to send you.

Today we decided to take The Dog down to Dog Beach in Belmont Shore.
We stopped on 2nd street to have a panini and then we walked down to the beach.
It was so impressive to pay seventy-five cents for five-and-a-half hours of parking. We were dumbfounded.

We walked down to the beach and turned The Dog loose on the sand. She immediately…

*** OH !@#$. The Dog is peeing on the carpet in the baby’s room! ***

Ok, so I just spent an hour bending over my belly to vaccum up the carpet while That Guy took That Darn Dog down to go pee three more times.

It’s now seven minutes to midnight. To make a long beautiful story very short:

Went to Dog Beach, it was glorious. Yummy lunch. Cheap parking! Sun, sand, waves, breeze: I feel human again. 200 happy dogs doing what dogs love to do. It was FUN.

The Dog actually went swimming in the waves for the first time. Dog drank half of the Pacific Ocean. Dog relieved herself of only 1/4 of the Pacific Ocean while walking to the Dog Wash.

Dog grudgingly accepted bath.

Dog slept while we visited a friend in town. Dog slept in the car. Dog peed when we got home. Dog slept until 9:30 p.m. I thought I felt wet little trails across the livingroom at 9:30. That Guy says “that’s because she was still wet from her bath.” My pregnant brain fails to calculate the FIVE HOURS that have elapsed since she was blow-dried after her bath.

I sat down to send this email and send some pictures. Dog enters room. Before dog even makes it to the computer to nudge my leg, I hear the sound of water running on the… “SHEEEEEEEE’S PEEEEEEEING!”

Apparantly salt water + dog bowel does’t mix. Spent an hour with the Bissell Little Green Spot Cleaner thingy. [GO BUY ONE!] Pregnant, sore, can’t get off the floor. Dog hiding in shame. Husband looking for more heavy boxes to pile on top of paper towels to soak up the remaining mess. Ugh.

Vaccum cleaner woke up the baby. Baby is mimicing future summer olympic heros. I’m too tired to try to sleep whle kid kicks. Going to stay up til kid settles down. Seen any good Youtube videos lately?

Love,
Bloggymommer