Anyone who reads this blog knows that there are three important parts of our lives:
Our favorite kind of nap is the one that we take at night time when our mama is sleeping and we can snuggle next to her. We also enjoy when she's the only one in the bed, so we can spread out when we need to, like Rozi did the other night:
When it gets dark outside and we've had our treats and Izzi has had her 'bedtime water' (Rozi is more of an "off an on" member of the "drink before bed club"), we get sleepy and we take a very long nap. Some times, like today and yesterday, the naps are super long, and we really like that.
But.
When we wake up form our naps, we're worried that our mama is not moving! Is she sick? Did she forget how to move? Is there something stopping her from getting out of bed (e.g. is Rozi sleeping on mama's belly?)? It's very confusing to us since we know that our mama feeds us and goes away and comes back but she doesn't take naps, like we do; naps are only for puppies. So, when we are waking up and we don't see our mama moving, we get worried.
We've decided that it's Izzi's job to check on mama, and so Izzi goes over to her and starts to lick her face to be sure that she's okay. We're not exactly sure what Izzi would discover that would leave the two of us to think that our mama is other than perfectly fine, but Izzi does her job anyway. Some mornings, it's a cursory lick and then Izzi moves on, because she can tell right off that everything is okay. But, there are other mornings that Izzi is not so sure, and so the process by which she evaluates whether our mama is okay can take a really long time. We know that there is nothing wrong when our mama tells Izzi to "stop" and that Izzi "is annoying" and that Izzi should go "check on her sister", which - of course - she does:
We are not completely sure why our mama is not moving when we wake up; her role in our lives is to always be taking care of us and feeding us and letting us outside and pulling those things off of Rozi when Rozi has a fight with the bush in the backyard and loses, and to grab Rozi after she's wandered over to the front yard. And, so when we wake up from our night nap, we think that our mama should be starting to take care of us, and when she doesn't, it's very confusing to us.
We're lucky that Izzi's is so good at checking on our mama. It's mostly because when our mama went in to the little room that has water dripping on her from the ceiling that she put us in front of the TV and it was "ER" and so Izzi learned a lot about medicine; Rozi - on the other hand - was fascinated that McDonald's now serves breakfast all day. But, this bit of training is important, because now Izzi knows what to do if there is a problem, which is to call a "code blue" and run around the room like maniacs. We practice the "running around the room like maniacs" most mornings, and we're pretty good at it, but since our mama is always fine, it's just training and not something that we need to use.
Meanwhile, Rozi takes longer to wake up from such a long nap,
and so while Izzi is checking the health of both our mama and Rozi, Rozi is trying to get in the full 14 hours of sleep so that she's prepared for her early morning, late morning, early afternoon, and late afternoon naps. Rozi expends a lot of energy on her naps, trying to find just the right position in the appropriate doggy bed or pillow and so a good night of sleeping is really useful in allowing her to be successful at it.
The two of us work well as a team, and we know that our mama appreciates how hard we work to be sure that she's well enough to give us our breakfast and our dinner. And, treats.
Arf, Arf, Arf, Arf,
Izzi & Rozi
- loving our mama (which includes trying to prevent ourselves from having joint heart attacks when she walks through the door, and doing our best to get up on our tiptoes to jump up to her, even though - so far - we've been less than successful at it)
- eating and
- taking naps.
Our favorite kind of nap is the one that we take at night time when our mama is sleeping and we can snuggle next to her. We also enjoy when she's the only one in the bed, so we can spread out when we need to, like Rozi did the other night:
When it gets dark outside and we've had our treats and Izzi has had her 'bedtime water' (Rozi is more of an "off an on" member of the "drink before bed club"), we get sleepy and we take a very long nap. Some times, like today and yesterday, the naps are super long, and we really like that.
But.
When we wake up form our naps, we're worried that our mama is not moving! Is she sick? Did she forget how to move? Is there something stopping her from getting out of bed (e.g. is Rozi sleeping on mama's belly?)? It's very confusing to us since we know that our mama feeds us and goes away and comes back but she doesn't take naps, like we do; naps are only for puppies. So, when we are waking up and we don't see our mama moving, we get worried.
We've decided that it's Izzi's job to check on mama, and so Izzi goes over to her and starts to lick her face to be sure that she's okay. We're not exactly sure what Izzi would discover that would leave the two of us to think that our mama is other than perfectly fine, but Izzi does her job anyway. Some mornings, it's a cursory lick and then Izzi moves on, because she can tell right off that everything is okay. But, there are other mornings that Izzi is not so sure, and so the process by which she evaluates whether our mama is okay can take a really long time. We know that there is nothing wrong when our mama tells Izzi to "stop" and that Izzi "is annoying" and that Izzi should go "check on her sister", which - of course - she does:
We are not completely sure why our mama is not moving when we wake up; her role in our lives is to always be taking care of us and feeding us and letting us outside and pulling those things off of Rozi when Rozi has a fight with the bush in the backyard and loses, and to grab Rozi after she's wandered over to the front yard. And, so when we wake up from our night nap, we think that our mama should be starting to take care of us, and when she doesn't, it's very confusing to us.
We're lucky that Izzi's is so good at checking on our mama. It's mostly because when our mama went in to the little room that has water dripping on her from the ceiling that she put us in front of the TV and it was "ER" and so Izzi learned a lot about medicine; Rozi - on the other hand - was fascinated that McDonald's now serves breakfast all day. But, this bit of training is important, because now Izzi knows what to do if there is a problem, which is to call a "code blue" and run around the room like maniacs. We practice the "running around the room like maniacs" most mornings, and we're pretty good at it, but since our mama is always fine, it's just training and not something that we need to use.
Meanwhile, Rozi takes longer to wake up from such a long nap,
The two of us work well as a team, and we know that our mama appreciates how hard we work to be sure that she's well enough to give us our breakfast and our dinner. And, treats.
Arf, Arf, Arf, Arf,
Izzi & Rozi
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