You Save Lives, I Do Amusing Things to Our Dogs. So?

I have no one to talk to while the DNB is on call.

The Buds and I go upstairs, where I start to read. Noticing that Aikane is fluffing blankets and arranging pillows to get comfortable on the bed, I get a brilliant idea. The travel neck pillow!

"Look!" I text the DNB, sending him a photo of my handiwork.

He doesn't reply.

"BABY!" I try again. "Look at the picture!"

Nothing.

"It's so cute! I think he thinks he can't move with it on. It's ADORABLE!"

Still nothing.

Then, "Oh cute," he finally replies. "I might be putting a kid on ECMO tonight," he continues. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Like a heart-lung machine.

I pause.

"I feel like you're trying to one-up my Aikane Neck Pillow."

The DNB would like you to know that this is the kind of crap he has to deal with.

How the box spring got upstairs

Aikane's 4 Years Old Birthday

Merry Christmas!

Ka Liko's 3 Years Old Birthday

In which I make him wear a Prince Crown.

The Third Dog

His name is Nahoa, but I call him Nahoa-Samoa because it
rolls off the tongue so beautifully. He doesn't seem to mind.

The Buds

Aikane and Ka Liko

Afternoon at the Lake: We Take Excessive Photos

We go paddle boating! The DNB is not excited about this, as it does not appear as manly as he prefers. However, two minutes into our excursion, he complains that his legs are tired.


The sky is blue and beautiful.
I feel that this picture is sufficiently representative of the 100 sky shots we take.


The DNB spends approximately 20 minutes taking pictures of the reflection in his sunglasses. How very artsy-fartsy of him. Well, fartsy anyway.


After he finishes taking pictures of his sunglasses, the DNB moves on to the algae in the lake. It is actually pretty cool. And with a 4gb memory card, my little Photog can take all the algae pictures his heart desires. Which turns out to be 75.


This is the part of the show where all the algae has ended up wrapped around the rudder and we keep crashing into things. The DNB sacrifices his hand to save us.


The DNB's life preserver falls overboard! This would not have happened if he were wearing it, Safety First. We are able to rescue it just in time. Notice the wake behind our manly paddle boat. This is because although the DNB's legs are tired, mine are in tip-top shape.


We bask in the sun. It is a lovely day.