A nursery mystery

Hello to all!

A while back, daddy and I worked very hard on getting little sister's nursery ready.

 Daddy chose a light yellow color for the walls.

Mom chose to decorate with lime green accents.

We painted for two whole days.

The room was almost done.

And yet, the best was about to come.

To My Dear Friend

Life has taught me many lessons.

A very important one: distance does not exist in our hearts.

We have family, we have friends.

Some live close to us, some accross the ocean.

Now I have you, my good friend Stubby.

A little bit further,

but just as close to me as my heart can be.

We met your parents once, on a very special day. 

I was able to sniff your wisdom; what a lucky pug, I must say. 

See you later, buddy!

Love,

Coco

Merry Christmas to all!

Meet our new family member

On father's day, the whole family went to Kennedy Park in Coconut Grove. I was having a great time playing voleyball, but then my mother asked me to sit right next to her. "Coco, there is going to be a new family member. She is going to be a little princess and she will be your roomate."

"When is she coming?", I asked.

"She is right here". Well, I have been sniffing someone around for a while but for me she is nowhere to be found yet.

As far as I know, my family is daddy, my two big sisters and mommy.

Oh, there's also grandma, but she only visits for short periods of times.

So I went ahead and asked Lauren.

Then I asked Eli.

I got no logical answer for my little wrinkled head.

Today, I decided to investigate further. I scrutinized my whole bedroom in search of the new member of the family. If she is a princess then she will have a crown and it will shine. Easy.

What my mother forgot to say, is that my new little sister is GREEN.

Forty Three Wishes

Hello friends,

I am sorry I still haven't been around commenting, but mom had a bright idea to help me do so, and that involves rearranging something on my blog layout. Hopefully she will work on that tomorrow, because she mentioned something about today and forty three wishes... I've been very busy making my list of wishes, I thought and thought so much I fell asleep. Forty three is such a big number!

Well, mom has been sleeping a lot this days also. She has been feeling kind of down with so many bad news; the earthquake, friends going to the rainbow bridge... but she is feeling much better today, specially after she saw daddy so happy with his birthday presents. Wait, now I find out that he's the one who has to make forty three wishes?

Daddy, how about sharing some wishes with me?

Happy and Thankful

Hello friends!
I hope you all had a very happy Thanksgiving day! I am sorry I write this a day late but I suspect something weird is happening at home. You see, ever since we found out that a new puppy was on the way to be part of our family (I still don't understand why such puppy would take nine months to arrive though...), mom has been acting weird. She sleeps all day - except while at work, I hope - she eats all day, her belly is growing big and round and yesterday she even dared to stay stinky and didn't take a bath! Isn't she puggier than ever?




I know most of my friends enjoyed turkey for Thanksgiving. I didn't. Our fridge has been broken most of the month, since it worked only for a few days after mom got it fixed. And she can only make appointments for Saturday because mom and dad have to work and I can't open the door for the tech to come in - and of course I don't want to pay him with my puggycard. So, mom and dad didn't have anything to eat for Thanksgiving! They woke up early to go to the supermarket and for their surprise, it didn't open yesterday. Of the few things still left on the fridge, we had 3 sweet potatoes and 1 onion. So they went to a place called "El Palacio de los Jugos" which is a cuban market that magically transports you to a third world country, a few blocks away from mom's office, and probably one of the few stores opened on Thanksgiving day. Mom loves the place, it reminds her of home. They sell fresh fruits and veggies, natural fresh juices and smooties, breakfasts and prepared cuban food. Mom bought cuban bread, baked pork for dinner, lemon, cilantro (which costs 1/6 of the price at the supermarket and looks much fresher!) and carrots the size of yuccas. HUGE CARROTS for ME!

So this is what our Thanksgiving table looked like:


Not that bad considering the circumstances!



Me: "Where's my pork?"
Mom: "Coco, you can't have pork. You are on a diet 24/7, 365 days of the year".
Dad: "It is Thanksgiving for him, too".
Mom: "It is too greasy. He only eats healthy organic stuff".

Dad gave me some pieces of baked sweet potato. When mom turned away, dad put some pork on my plate. I love dad, he puts delicious things on my plate everyday. But shhhhh!! Don't tell mom, please!

You can tell I was a happy pug after dinner! I went to sleep and dreamt of all the things I have to be thankful for. A nice loving family, a great vet, a warm place to call home, kibble, veggies and daddy's "extras" on my plate.

And I am specially thankful for having such great pug-people and puggy friends! *kisses to all!*

Mystery Solved?

Hello Friends!



Here I am, back home and ready to tell you all about the misterious pictures of mom and dad in the mountains.




Maybe I should begin claryfing the fact that mom didn't meet with other pugs during the trip. She's been faithful to me and has only met with weird brown furry creatures, like the following:

Apparently, such brown creatures have an exquisite taste since mom found my favorite bakery up there:

Having discarded "pugs" as a reason why mom and dad went so far away, I would say they went there to see the trees change color. Over here palm trees don't change colors!

Or maybe they just went there because mom wanted to buy some fabrics, since sewing is her new favorite hobby...

Anyway, ever since they returned, I haven't left mom's side. I sleep on the floor by her side of the bed now, instead of daddy's side, and I stay in the bathroom with her while she takes a shower. I still haven't figured out why I feel so overprotective... all I know is that there's somebody hiding in this picture of mom and dad.

Grandma's Day

Friends,

Today I would like to wish my grandma a happy 79th birthday.

I can't wait for her to visit me again. After all, I have been a very important influence in her life.

I was there when she learned to ride a trycicle.

I was also there when she was able to ride one by herself.

I taught her the importance of sharing even when it is a hard thing to do. We both progressed through I-95 with her feet and my body squished in mom's tiny car for our first long road trip together. She devoted unnumerable hours holding a bottle for me to drink water of. She also shared all her snacks with her youngest grandson (me).




I wish she could have learned the most important lesson of all: To kiss a pug. That's going to be my mission next time she visits.



Do you think she looks 79 years old? Don't look at her wrinkles, she's supposed to be a pug!