I've been a bad mommy...
...I never acknowledged our "Little Girl's" (as Thew affectionately calls her) 3rd Birthday on the 13th...
...that's okay...
...I don't think she cares too much...
...here we are...the 1st official picture of the Fohner Family...with all our current members...for now, that is ;)
This was filmed the first night we had Aslan home with us in June of 2006. It was such a unexpected blessing how she joined our family.
We had locked into a contract with our first choice breeder to have the 2nd pick of a chocolate female lab months before she was born, but when the day came for the litter to be born we received an e-mail from the breeder disappointingly letting us know that it was a false pregnancy & that she had to return our deposit. We contacted our 2nd choice breeder right away & to our delight there was 1 black female available. Aslan had been born 2 weeks prior & would be ready to be picked up the first day of Thew & mine's 1st Summer vacation from teaching...perfect. We got a whole 2 months with her before we even had to crate her for the day. She went with us EVERYWHERE & we loved it.
We loved her the 1st moment we received her picture after she was born. We were actually able to pick her out from her 5 brothers & sisters when she was only 6 weeks old. She was the one puppy sitting in the back of the litter box contently looking on while the rest of the litter eagerly propped themselves on the edge of the box looking at the camera. And to this very day, she's remained true to her first days...never a barker, always easy to please, & happy to sit & snuggle rather than play (as she is in this video)...always game for fetch if there's water involved, but never one for running after something on land...that's our "Little Girl" :)
This was filmed during the first summer Aslan joined our family. Ever the curious pup, this was one of her favorite pastimes that she thankfully grew out of. We thought then that it was the old have-to-turn-3-times-before-she-sits mannerisms that dogs have & that she was just doing it so she could feel "okay" about laying down on the couch. We now know that it was because she couldn't figure out how to / wasn't strong enough yet to lift up the cushions on the couch to get at what lies underneath. There are a ton of good smells that are embedded into the fibers of our living room couches (that will hopefully be banished to the basement when we finally buy the living room set we picked out at Ashley Furniture). We inherited this current set from Thew's Dad. These monstrous blue behemoths have been featured in pics way back from the '80s from the Fohner Family Albums...needless to say, we should get new couches soon.
Anyways, here she is doing one of the many few cute things that she often does...gotta love her :)
...we love our beautiful "Neck" (don't ask), but as you might have rightly assumed, it's a nickname for "red-neck"...we do live in Fred-neck & she was born in the hills of mid-PA, so it works...
...here she is on one of our many walks at my Grandparent's farm in VA...
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...resting at home...
...Happy 3rd Birthday, Aslan...
...not like you care because you're a "just a dog"...
...but all the same...
...you'll always be our firstborn...
...love you :)
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