Picture this:

Sunday afternoon, raining heavily outside, TV on in the lounge and mummy has been working on the Sunday lunch for a little over an hour. We are approximately 5 minutes from delivery time.

Hugo had got himself in position number one in the kitchen eagerly awaiting Sunday lunch – that’s right folks, he cannot tell us when he wants to go outside to pee, but can determine the ping of the oven to signify dinner time with incredible accuracy. If he could have reached the surfaces in the kitchen, we are sure that he would have been stuck in helping out…

He then proceeded to pick out the pieces of chicken from his usual dried biscuits with a speed only beate by the pace of rain falling in Ossett tonight. 

Tomorrow morning will return him to disappointment – disappointment of not getting yummy chicken in his breakfast 🙁

It has now been 7 weeks since Hugo joined us and we sadly still have wet patches in the house that we did not have 8 weeks ago – in fact the little bigger actually peed on daddy last night as he was having a cuddles he couch… 🙁 however, we would not be without him and he IS getting better – just learn to tell us when you need to go put PLEASE.

The boys were both apprehensive as we waited in the optician’s waiting area yesterday morning – the word test had Elliot worried and Olly was, well, Olly.

Elliot thought that the “cyborg” glasses were awesome and wanted a pair so was somewhat hoping to have vision issues so that he had a reason to make the request…

In the end, both boys have a perfect vision for their age – i.e. a little long sighted – and Elliot actually had the digital photograph of his eyes performs for comparison each couple of years, like they do for Daddy.

So, sadly the vision is not necessarily a reason for Oliver’s handwriting challenges as they suggested at school, so we are back to his just being Olly, and hence being lazy and not bothered one way or the other…

At least their eyes are still good 🙂 Next appointment in October 2017…

After ordering the en-suite flooring from Brocksons in Ossett, we all head down to Pets at Home in Wakefield to buy Hugo his first lead and a harness for walking.

We then head over to Pugneys Country Park to walk alongside the lake – Hugo was not entirely sure of being walked as he is used to snuffling around the garden at his own pace rather than being pulled in a direction that he was not ready or prepared to go – the harness also annoyed him a little at first although it is WAY better than a choker type or using his standard collar for lead walking.

Once he was used to it however, we got on and had a lovely, if brief walk for 40 minutes or so and we actually decided to let him off the lead to see how he got on. He walked alongside us and behind us as he was more interested in sniffing the grass than taking a walk in honesty, but we all got along great and it can be chalked up as a successful first walk. 

Tomorrow, we will try to get to a different park with him and let him off the lead again – all part of our trying hard to enable Hugo to successfully walk off the lead and hence to not want to run away at first chance..