more of the amazing adventures of foster the puppy

we had another jam-packed weekend of fun! saturday while mom & dad where running errands and cleaning up around the house, foster found a lovely place to take a napwe also had some fun exploring in dad's kayak, which someday in the future foster will be spending quite alot of time in!saturday night we went over our friend's catie & steve's new place for bbq and nighttime glow-in-the-dark bocce! foster had the pleasure of meeting some of our best buds and even another doggie! somehow i don't have any pics of foster meeting royce the beagle. boo.......

our lovely hosts catie & steve

getting some love from amandathen today we visited with mom & dad m in walpole. foster got his own new toy that he absolutely loves!! good pick meme!!

playin' with grampie in the yardbest.toy.ever

to top everything off we went over to shelburne farms in stow today to go apple picking. not only do they have the best apples but they allow doggies in the orchard on a leash! and to make things even better we got to visit with my good bud from work, mali, and her golden puppy baron! again i somehow decided to leave my camera in the car but they seemed to get along great and foster was of course a celebrity at the orchard!

what fun lies in store tomorrow with daddy being home for the holiday??? we'll see......

ahhhhh heaven

i mean seriously....am i the best doggy mom or what?
weekend recap on the way.......

walkies & our very own bed!

monday evening we all went for a walk down the street to the assabet river. there's a small footbridge that leads over the river and into a dog-friendly park.

it was a beautiful autumn evening
he loves his sticks. look at the size of those paws!
on the way back dave tried to get foster to go into the water. he was throwing sticks into a shallow part of the river. foster was meandering at the edge but wouldn't swim in. then he decided to climb up on a wet rock sticking out of the water and he slipped and fell in! he went completely underwater nose first! it was hilarious! he held on to the rock and whimpered for a sec than swam around it back to the shore. of course i didn't take any pics b/c i was practically diving in to help him! i did take this one pic of him all wet and scared afterwards.

well today i finally decided to ignore my darling husband and go get my dog a proper bed! i picked up this extra large woolrich dog bed from target.

he'll grow into it someday!
if that's not happiness i don't know what is...

:))

manny who??

this never gets old. welcome to the party jason bay.
love that dirty water........

on tour in connecticut

foster had an action-packed weekend on tour down in connecticut. we visited all sorts of family and friends and even met some other doggies! all the excitement left us with one tired puppy sunday afternoon!

first stop:mom & dad S. house in north haven

cuddling up with grandma

playin' with auntie laurafetching in the backyard
then on to auntie carrie's house to meet matthew and patrick!
matthew is not so sure about this guy
final stop of the day on saturday was to dave & michelle's to meet the whole NH/UConn crew and the silver fox himself-steely!!! steely is a 5 month old silver lab. silver you ask? i guess there's a recessive gene in chocolates so they sometimes come out silver.

sniffing each other outdaniella getting pushed around by 2 crazy puppies
he was a little scared at first and sticking close to mommy
believe it or not this is steely & foster playing nice! after some bum sniffing everyone seemed to get along great!
after what was probably the most exciting day of his short 11 week life so far, foster crashed big time and slept ~8hrs!

sunday we headed up to marisa & rick's place for the last stop on our CT tour. they have a beagle murphy, who was none to pleased to have our little brown bear cub sniffing around...

marisa was definitely VERY happy to meet foster tho!
marisa & rick will be welcoming their own baby girl in just a few weeks! can't wait to meet her!ok, gotta run so i can hopefully watch the sox wrap up the NLDS series tonight. GO SOX!!!!

some firsts!

well i don't have any pics but foster had some new firsts this week!
he had his first carrot for a snack. he basically shredded the whole thing while eating it. i kept finding little bits of carrot around the house! at least he enjoyed a healthy snack!
he also took his first swim this week too! he went for a walk with daddy in the wildlife management area by his work. i guess he was splashing around in the shallow part and then dave threw a stick in to the deep part and he went bombing in the water and swam out to retrieve it! afterwards he seemed a bit dazed and surprised with himself!
we're off to CT tomorrow for a visit with family and friends and the silver fox steely!!
tune in next week for updates.......

i get all tuckered out!

being a puppy is tough work! after a long day of running around, playing, chewing on things, eating and napping there's nothing foster likes more than......well, another nap! this little pup is a snugglebug and despite being a bit too big for our laps he still tries to curl up in there!

as usual daddy seems to be the most appealing snugglebuddy (or maybe it's just that i'm the only one taking pics!)they have even been known to spoon
last night a pillow ended up on the floor and foster discovered that's a pretty comfy place to kick back too! hmmmmm perhaps a doggie-bed is in order.......

in fact, everyone here was pretty tired last night....
well i know why dave was tired. he got up real early to go fishing again with uncle bob g. and it was another successful day out in cape cod bay...
cheers to pumpkin beer and striped bass!!
GO SOX!!!