I have to share this video with you today, because it is just too funny.

I’ll set it up for you a bit: I had been trying to teach Lucia to “smile” for a few weeks, but I’d given up because she just wasn’t responding to the training. Usually, Lucia picks up new tricks with only a few attempts, so I had been a little downtrodden that I’d failed.

When I arrived home from work one day last week, I quickly realized that Lucia had stuck her nose into the laundry bin again. Darn it! As you might recall, Lucia seems to feel quite guilty when she does something wrong…and she immediately began to diffuse the situation by miraculously remembering how to do her “smile” trick. That punk…

Is it just me, or do I have the most manipulative dog ever?

So, all of a sudden a few weeks ago, I came home to find that Lucia had pulled apart some of the laundry bin (I hadn’t finished doing the laundry the night before and had left the bin in the middle of the living room – it’s usually in our bedroom, where Lucia is not allowed to go). There were a few items scattered across the living room floor. Ah, geez. It took a little while to get her to stop that habit, because I wasn’t catching her in the act to tell her “no.” The second time I came home to find laundry on the living room floor (yeah, apparently I didn’t learn the first time), I had to take a video. Lucia KNEW she had been bad…you could see it in her eyes! The shame.

So – do your pets know when they’ve done something wrong? And…is it just me, but when you see that guilty look in their eyes, do you immediately want to forgive them?!?!

Happy Friday everyone!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend ahead. I know I’m looking forward to a bit of relaxation…a glass of wine or two…and perhaps not having to cook dinner one night!

I have some very exciting things coming up next week that I can’t wait to share…but until then, I leave you with the impossibly cute Theodore -

Can you believe my little baby is going to be 10 years old this summer? He doesn’t look a day over 2…

What are YOU up to this weekend?

Our apartment is 3 stories tall. The entryway is on one floor…you walk up a flight of stairs to the living area. Then, on top of that, we have another set of stairs that leads up to a loft area.

Lucia is familiar with our front entryway’s stairs, but she has never walked up the staircase to the loft. When we first moved into the apartment, we walked her over to the stairs, said “no,” and she has not once walked up them. It is kind of bizarre actually…

What IS funny though is when Justin or I walk up to the loft and start calling Lucia’s name. She can never seem to figure out where the voice is coming from…she starts running around the living room, pokes her head into the kitchen and bathroom, and then back again to the living room. Then she looks up and figures it out. I don’t think she realizes that she can take the stairs to join us up in the loft though…

Sneaky humans, we are.

Happy Friday everyone!

It’s hard to take a family photo when Lucia is around. We tried to do so recently and look what happened: total photobomb. As soon as the family assembled, she just HAD to stick her head in (check out the bottom left corner). Oh, and apparently we were channeling the high school prom poses? I have no idea how this happened.

I can’t blame Lucia: she’s part of our family, so shouldn’t she be in the photo too? Stuart, Theodore, Ari, and Kona apparently couldn’t care less about the photo opp though!

Sometimes it is better to just go with it and let our little furbaby ham it up to her heart’s content…

That’s better…

Do your pets make appearances in your family photos?