Those of you who follow this blog and who know my family, know exactly who this post is about. For the few of you who have not met our beloved Bailey, let me introduce you: Bailey is our 8 year old Boxer. He is, without question, a very important part of our family. I decided to devote this post to him this morning b/c he reminded me yet again why we all love him so much. His world has changed ALOT in his 8 years with us. For the first 4 years, he was our baby. We took him everywhere and he did everything we did. Now, he has had to take a backseat (twice!) to our girls and rarely gets to leave our house :(. However, thru it all, he has been a constant, loving, loyal companion. I could give a million examples of why we love him so much, but I want to list just a few:
- Bailey loves each of us unconditionally
- He is the best behaved, most well mannered of all my "children"
- He keeps my feet warm and always sympathizes with me (or any of us) when we feel bad
- He protects me, my children and my house
- He allows my girls to pull his tail, ears, nose, mouth and any other part of him without ever complaining or even whimpering
- He is never too tired or too busy to greet me at the door or make me feel loved and needed
- He doesn't like getting dirty (I wish I could say the same about Anna Kate!)
- He has "kept watch" over both girls by sleeping under their cradle when they were newborns
- He is a tattletail! He always comes to get me if AK or Grace has gotten into something that he thinks they shouldn't be into (I realize how crazy this sounds but it's TRUE!)
- He is the definition of loyal. Where we are is where he wants to be. Period. He is sleeping by my feet while I type this...
Anna Kate "playing" with him (10/06)
Grace showing Bailey some love (3/09)
1 comments:
What a great post! I miss Bailey and the boys do to. Whenever we see a boxer - they always go, "there's a Bailey dog"! Give him a great big hug from us!
LeAnn
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