wow! doesn't even look like the same dog. but he's a cutie!!!
eli (my 3-year-old) decided one day to chew the area where the carpet meets the hardwood in our living room/foyer. when i saw what he had done i called DH crying - we had only been in our house for 1 year. anyway, i was about ready to get rid of him, but DH convinced me to wait it out and he bought a strip of wood molding to cover up the spot where eli chewed and now you can't even tell anything happened.
if anyone's wondering about the flip flop incident.... i was working at home one day and came out into the kitchen and saw the thong part of one of those cheap flip flops from old navy laying in the floor. the rest of it was GONE. completely gone. nowhere to be found. so i knew he had actually swallowed the rubber part......all of it!

he was still really small and i knew this wouldn't be good for his tummy, so i called my vet and asked what i needed to do. she said to give him 2 tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide and he'd puke it up. well, less than a minute after giving it to him, he started vomiting little chunks of navy blue flip flop!

it took him about 5 tries, but he got it all up. FUN STUFF!!!
where's lynda??? she has the cutest little beagle herself.
anyway, here's a pic of us last christmas. i'm holding eli, my little fat man. he's the 3-year-old. ray's holding sherman, the 10-year-old. you can tell he's older because he has a white face......he's my baby.
i love this one because sherman's cocking his head.
stitch looks A LOT like eli did when he was a puppy. they even have the same mark on their forehead!
look how little he was when we got him.....makes me want another one. almost.