Bear Birthdays

Yesterday Tommy declares that today would be Sam the teddy bear's birthday. Lucy then declared yesterday to be Brown Bear's birthday. And so today we had a teddy bear birthday party!

Davis

I remember that I read the email in the faculty workroom at SI.  Teaching summer school or getting ready for my first year teaching... The subject read, "Tim and Sara are expecting...." and the big reveal on the inside was "... a puppy!"

That puppy turned out to be the first of our brood of dogs.  In his youth, Davis was a snooty purebred who had little of the gratitude that the rescue dogs came with.  I got to spend a lot of time with him as a puppy since I was living in the city by myself and Tim and Sara took me in quite a bit.  I used to hide at their house during lunch during my first year of teaching since I was so freaked out and nobody talked to me at first.  Davis would ride shotgun in my car through the drive thru at Burger King.  I'd never had a puppy and I learned a lot from Davis.  As entitled as he was, Davis always opened his home to dogs and children that came his way.  Like Tim, Davis couldn't say no to a new playmate.

Even when we added all these dogs and all these kids to the mix, I always tried to give Davis some special love when I came over.  I will miss him very much and I know Cali will too.

I know Davis lived a long and happy life because the puppy pictures I have of him are all on actual printed film.  He predates my digital camera pics...