The love of my life

After the pup greeted me when I got home today (he's always so happy when someone comes home or when someone knocks on the door), I was playing around with him and I picked him up and started teasing him. I started blowing puffs of air at his ears and he did not like this. Usually he sort of tells me to back off by pretending he's going to bite, but this time he snapped a little too close and sort of scratched my nose and lip. I guess I deserved it for bullying him though, but I think it's hilarious how spunky he is.

But he's also such a sweetheart! Yesterday, I was sitting on the couch with my laptop in my lap and he sort of came over and nudged it. Sometimes he nudges pillows and blankets like he's checking what's under them so I picked up my laptop for him to check under. He crawled into my lap, made a little circle, and went right to sleep :)

Anyway, here are some of my favorite pictures of him I was looking through:

If you pick up my pup when he's in a calm and cuddly mode, it is so precious! He'll kind of curl up around your arm and fall asleep. Oh and he also snores! But yeah this is a good picture to show his small size.
I took this because I thought this was would be a funny picture. It kind of looks like he's using the laptop - haha
Sometimes, if you're sitting on a chair or couch with your legs down, he'll kind of just walk up, put his paws on your leg, and pop up to see what's going on.
Often when he's bored or at home alone, he'll jump up by the bay windows and watch what's going on outside like it's a TV until he falls asleep. He'll even stick his nose up to the crack of the window and take a few really deep breaths of fresh air! It was quite funny when we figured out what he was doing, and my mom started putting blankets up there for him to fall asleep on. As you can see, he's pretty protective of his toys too - he'll gather them in a pile next to his bed before he falls asleep (that's his ear hanging off the edge).
This is the first time Romeo got to meet Catherine's dog named Little Man (I know, weird name right?) It was kind of funny because Romeo sort of bullied her dog around... of course I won't deny, her dog was kind of being a pushover anyway and I think Romeo was getting mad that Little Man didn't want to play. I mean he loves chasing/being chased by dogs and humans and Little Man would sort of just back up and corner himself before barking a fit at Romeo to make him back off.
A picture from the first day we had him :) He's so tiny! I don't even think he was 4 lbs. when we first got him. My little baby!
Sometimes when there's nothing good on TV (aka there's nothing fun to watch out the window), he'll kind of sit on the steps with his head between the rails. I would have never guessed he could fit his head there, but even when people are downstairs and he is on the steps, he'll poke his head through to look down and see what's going on.
In the morning after he wakes up with my mom, he'll come to my room when she leaves for work and he'll and go back to sleep in my bed. When I get up for a shower, he usually gets up with me and follows me around until I actually get in the shower. Sometimes, he sleeps outside the bathroom door waiting to lick my legs when I get out, but sometimes, I come back to my room and he has crawled back into bed! Often times he'll even crawl halfway under my covers.
This is before his first official haircut! I can't believe he looks so fat with all that hair (which is why it's hilarious to give him a bath - he looks like a little skeleton under all that hair). Tim cropped this picture, shrunk it down, and wrote "die!" in red letters under his face as an AIM icon joke since his eyes are kind of devilish in this picture - haha
This is another picture from the first day we bought him. After we chased him and played with him for a few hours, me, my mom, Tim, and Dusan all kind of stood around him trying to figure out how we could get him to take a nap on his new bed. We pulled the bed out of his little cage-y and put it on the ground while we were talking about it, and he sort of walked over, sniffed, scratched to fluff it up, plopped down, and sighed. He is so funny when he sighs before he falls asleep! It's like he's had a stressful day or something. Well after he fell asleep, we moved him and the bed back into the cage-y and gave him a little blanket. He sorta kicked it off and scrunched it up but I remember I couldn't resist taking this picture because of the awkward posture he was in.
I think this picture is adorable because his face is so precious! Also, D was just sitting there on the couch and Romeo crawled up the armrest and sat down on D's head :) And his hair looks kind of funny too.
I just like this picture because I think he kind of looks like a bear! We joke that he is part bear (by the way he walks), part bunny (by the way he hops when he wants to slow down from running), part snake (by the way his tounge flickers in and out), and part pig (because the shape of his nose is kind of funny).
I think having a dog has most definitely improved the relationship of our family. We're not at all affectionate towards each other but we've all grown to generally be more affectionate people after we got the pup. Also, we kind of treat him like he's our little kid so we joke and laugh to each other about funny things that have happened. I honestly dunno what I'd do without him!