Friday, August 6, 2010

TWO dogs??

Two dogs. No we did not get another dog, but there is a slight chance that Olivia thinks that SHE is a dog. I know this sounds a little crazy. I mean what ten month old would think she is a dog? And what would make me think that she thinks that? Well I have a few reasons...

Reason #1
She is obsessed with Titan's food and water dish
( this is probably normal since it is on her level but wait there's more)

Reason #2
She recently discoverd his collar. Since it is so hot outside he spends alot of time indoors and we don't always have his collar on him. But when we do she sits next to him and plays with it. The other day when it was off of him she found it and was trying to put it on her neck.

Reason #3
She wimpers. Titan isn't a really whiny dog but sometimes when he gets excited or wants something and is being ignored he will whimper. She has started doing this too. Oh she also tries to bark.

Reason #4
She follows him everwhere and wants to be where he is. Upstairs, downstairs, outside, on his bed...you name it. If he is there she thinks that's where she needs to be too. Last week he was laying on the floor on his back and she crawled over right next to him and layed there too. For like 5 min just laying there staring at the wall.

Reason #5
LICKING!!! Yes that's right! Licking! She started licking almost everything but the main things she licks are the tile and the carpet! Who licks the floor? Dogs! And earlier this week instead of kissing Jon she licked him...twice. Forehead and cheek...just like who...the dog!

Ok so those are my reasons. Maybe this is all totally normal. Maybe she just loves her dog. Maybe its because she doesn't have any siblings to copy. Who knows..but for now I think she thinks she's a dog.

5 comments:

aristella said...

You make me very happy in my heart. As does precious Olivia. HOW cute is it that your little indian baby loves her indian dog. George can be cousins with Titan because he too is from the Navajo Nation. (Lets just assume that Titan is from the Rez for all intents and purposes.)

Adam Jensen said...

that is hilarious :) What a cutie :)

Heather and Shaun said...

Oh my goodness!! That is so funny. I can just picture her licking his face!

Natalie said...

That's funny. Duncan was doing some of those things too. The dogs do growl and duncan picked that up from them. He tried licking a few times, but he stopped. Its funny, I think they just mimic what is around them and sometimes that just happens to be dogs.

Britt said...

that makes me laugh. it's adorable. i never had a kid do that..

i mean, my kids definitely play the puppy game. one of them is a dog with a leash, they do tricks, bark, beg for treats, crawl on all fours.. but they stop.

it's a phase.. she'll outgrow it. but it's adorable!