Sorry, I was hungry.

Good morning friends! (good night for the ones that live far, far away!)
I wanted to thank you all for the happy birthday and bloggiversary wishes, specially to my favorite pug girl in the whole world, my Pearly poo! She gave me the best birthday present ever, writing a very sweet post about me. I am not single, girls. My heart belongs to Pearl.

Now that we are back on our regular blogging schedule... what? Why were we not blogging as usual?

It was because one's supposed to get a week of vacation after one year of work, right? And by coincidence that was also mom's last week of class. She had to read and write a lot. So far, she has 3500 words for a novel she had started for her class. She never thought about starting a novel... let's see if she continues or not. She is famous for starting new things and not finishing them because she later finds new things to start. So far, blogging has been her more consistent activity. ONE YEAR! Wow, she deserves an award for that. But since this is MY blog, I am the one who gets the awards here.

One of my best buddies gave me this award a while ago. It looked so delicious, I ate it all. Thank you, Bajas! The cookies were so good, I was not able to share with anybody else!



Luckily, Harry gave me this award again! Harry wanted to know why I was named Coco.


This is what Coco means in spanish. Daddy chose "Coconut" because it was a good fit for me. We still don't understand why.

Now here are the rules to this award:"When accepting this award, you must blog about the food you have stolen when your humans were not watching. If you have never stolen any food, you must have been a really good pup! You can accept this yummy tray of cookies as your reward! Next add the logo of this award to your blog (optional), then nominate at least 5 other furry blogs and let them know by leaving a message on their blogs."

I have stolen quite a few things, but the one mom remembers the most was a whole peruvian chili pepper I took from the fridge once. I run away and ate it all. Mom was scared because it is very spicy, specially the veins and seeds. What she forgot, is that I am also part peruvian, so I can eat spicy food with no problems!



I also want to share a special accomplishment in my puggy adult life: My first Diploma.

I was a student Roxy's first class and I have learned so much I may misteriously gain a few pounds in the upcoming weeks, since daddy likes to eat everywhere but the dining table. Thank you Roxy!

Now before my friends forget what I look like, here is a picture of me doing what I like the most:

The Origins

Hello Puggies and People!
I have a lot of news. The computer at home seems to be working now and mom is posting this from there. The pictures are from the phone because mom has little time since she has been busy helping one of the kids with a school project. It was a fun homework and I will tell you about it later. I also wanted to tell you about yesterday's pug meetup but mom said it was kind of embarassing... I will just say that I got confused and sniffed and kissed a cat's face and I also pooped all around mom (180º) while she was sitting on the floor petting other pugs.




I also behaved very bad while in the car, fighting with mom because I wanted to be on her lap. Mom doesn't like that, specially because she has to drive through 5 (yes, five) different highways for an hour to get to the pug meetup from the house.





Mom, dad and the kids went yesterday to the beach. It was an ugly beach since it was not pet friendly. While mom was there, she read that some of our friends wanted us to translate my nicknames.

Mom asked dad: How do you say this and that in english?
Dad said: What do you want that for? Those names are so weird!
Mom said: Why didn't you tell me this before? I keep calling Coco these names!
Dad said: Because you do so when we are at home and nobody is listening.

Mom blushed. And finally understood. Daddy has probably been too busy watching TV or playing XBox while his only son was growing up and earning his right to deserve funny/silly nicknames. Let me share the origins with you friends...

Mom is shy. While she was living on dad's mother's house she never sang on the shower. When she moved out the first song that came to her mind was the theme of a Mexican telenovela that broadcasted in 1987, called Rosa Salvaje (Wild Rose). It is a contagious melody and mom found out it was perfect to be sung for me. So she started modifying the lyrics... since I am not a Rose or a girl called Rose.
First, she sang: Cosa Salvaje (Wild thing) (I am the thing). But then it was changed to Coso Salvaje (coso doesn't have a meaning, it is just a funny way to say cosa - it sounds more masculine). That's how she started calling me Coso.
Then she continued changing the lyrics. In honor to my shedding capabilities (which has made mom dependant on an allergy medicine for life, and has sent dad to the surgery room due to a severe sinus problem) mom started singing Cosa Peluda (hairy thing) instead of Rosa Salvaje. When I am smelly and dirty, she sings Cochinada Peluda (Dirty hairy thing). When I behave good she sings Preciosura Salvaje (Wild precious). Now you get the idea, it could be anything that fits with the music of the song.
Mom also calls me Piojo (flea) or Piojito (little flea) when I start jumping and dancing. The obvious ones are Jefecito (little chief or boss) and Belleza (Cutie or beautiful).

Daddy calls me Paps (isn't that english?), Papa (dad), papito (daddy) and Coconut which is the english word for Coco. Yes, daddy named me after the tropical fruit. And he said I was a little monster because of my looks. I didn't get that one.

Spanish Lessons

"Que quiere Coco?"

"Arf!" (zanahoria)

"No se, no entiendo. Que pasó?"

["What does Coco want?"

"Arf!" (Carrot)

"I don't understand. What happened?"]

Spanish Lessons

*Coco se sacude, camina y se sienta*

(Coco shakes, walks and sits down)

"Quién es mi Coco?"

(Who is my Coco?) => silly question and tone of voice but that's how I talk to him ;D

"Vamos, vamos, corre. A donde vamos?"

(Let's go, let's go, run. Where are we going?) => Another silly question!

Fantastic Friday!

I liked Eduardo's post for today. I wish I had something fantastic for today's post but I don't! Maybe this will work: this is a fantastic friday because hubby went to the doctor and now he is feeling a little bit better.

I was very mad with him yesterday because the day before he decided to cut the ficus hedge of his mother's house. He filled up his pick up truck 5 times with the foliage and took all that to the garbage dumpster, when he was supposed to be resting trying to avoid dust and allergens. At night he was feeling awful, with pain and a little fever, and confessed he had not taken the antibiotics prescribed after the surgery. He started the antibiotics yesterday and last night took the first pain killer pill... it is easier to take care of a sick dog than a sick husband!

He was prescribed more medicine and the doctor was mad because hubby had cleaned his nose by himself when the doctor was suppossed to do that today. After all this, hubby is feeling better now. That has to be FANTASTIC!

We received a couple of awards last week (hooray!):

The butterfly award was given to us by our friends Clover and Roxy and Lucky. Thank you guys! You really make us feel special!

Coco received this awesome award from our friends Winston & Clemmie, for participating in the Project Dogway contest.

We had lots of fun preparing the entries and are looking forward to participate in more contests in the future!

Now we leave you with some spanish lessons, so you can practice during the weekend ;P

- Coco durmiendo -

(Coco sleeping)

- Coco olfateando -

(Coco sniffing)

- Coco comiendo un rico -

(Coco eating a treat*)

* Note: Treat in spanish is "golosina", but Coco and I like the word "rico" better!

"Howie, quieres un rico?"

Spanish Lessons

- camión -

- supermercado -

- botes -


- semáforo -

- ómnibus -

- carro -

Spanish Lessons

- rio -

- cielo -

- vacas -

- puerta-

- edificios -

- casa -

- calle -

- piedra -