Corgi Christmas Craziness

Clank's report:

Sorry I haven't posted for a long time, but I've been really, really busy. Little did I know when Ratchet started talking about Santy Paws and holidays that it would turn out to be the mostest fun you could pack into a couple of weeks! Where to begin?

Things were kind of quiet after the photo session and I started thinking Ratchet was just yanking my tail with all that mysterious stuff about stockings and Christmas morning and all that. Boy, was I wrong.

A couple days later, the moms were all excited and they started talking about the Corgi car arriving on Tuesday. They went away in the morning really early and when Mommy Shar came home, she was driving a brand new car. It's bright orange and has a back seat that folds down so we can run around, but we have to wear our safety harnesses, so we can't run very far. But it does have lots of windows and I even looked out and sniffed the breezes until it started raining. So that was our first present.

The next week, we took a HUGE long ride in the Corgi car all the way to a place called Olympia. It was pretty neat, but it got awful cold and started raining just as we were walking around Capital Lake and we had to run back to the car so we wouldn't drown.

Then Christmas came and we got lots of cool presents in these funny-looking things called stockings that were "hung by the chimney with care," whatever that means. It was easy to tell which one was mine because it has my picture on it. A good thing since I can't read yet.

On Christmas day we went to see our friend Stormy the Boston Terrier at Uncle Spence & Auntie Linda's house. And we got even more presents! I guess Santy Paws got confused about where we live or something.

Ratchet told me all about the "Big Snowstorm of Christmas 2008" and how neat it is to play in the snow. All we got was lots of rain, so I was pretty disappointed. And then it started snowing and we had a whole inch of snow to play in. Better late than never!

Since then we've been playing with our new toys, chasing each other all over the place and generally having lots of fun. On New Year's Eve, Ratchet and I told the people firing off fireworks what we thought of them and then we went to sleep.

New Year's wish from Ratchet & Clank

We want to wish everyone who follows our blog a Happy New Year and we hope all your puppies got lots of toys and treats. If they didn't, it's never too late to hit the sales at the pet store and bring home some goodies for them. Just tell 'em Santy Paws got lost or something.

Lots of laughs and lolling tongues,

Ratchet and Clank.

Toy-o-rama

Ratchet’s Report:

Anybody who knows Corgis knows that we are world-class organizational professionals. I am the top organizational dog at the Happy Puppy Park, despite what those Pembrokes might say about it. Like anyone without a tail could organize anything!

And if you live around humans, you understand why. Yeesh, they are sooo disorganized. Fortunately for our Moms, they have me. We are really making some inroads around our house now that I have my apprentice, Clank.

I’ve been training him up, and he’s doing some great work in the back yard. So far, he’s found lots of sticks, leaves, pine cones, pieces of siding left over when my Mommy Annie & Uncle Spencer built Mommy Shar’s art studio, a few darts from an old dart board, a piece of ancient electrical cord, and a number of rocks.

He keeps bringing the garden shoes and gloves in, but I’ve told him those are supposed to stay outside. I try to give the kid some slack because he’s young and distractable.

We decided to re-organize the toy box last week with a little help from our Moms. First, we hauled all the toys out to the living room and spread them around the floor. Then we looked them over carefully and made two piles: keepers and “too yucky to have in the house.”

The Moms seemed to think an awful lot of our toys fell in the latter category, so Clank and I had to fetch them back out of the box and put them on our keeper pile. That took awhile, since the Moms didn’t agree with us, but we finally got the job done and we’re pretty happy with the results.

Clank’s Report:

I’ve been studying up on organization with my big brother. It’s lots of fun and I think I’m getting pretty good at it. He says I’m a “natural,” except when my teeth hurt and I can’t think of anything but chewing on stuff.

My favorite lesson was going through our toys and picking the ones we like best. What a blast! The Moms helped by taking some of our favorites and putting them in one pile so we could go get them and put them back in our pile. Then they’d put them in the other pile again and we’d do it all over.

Ratchet says I can be his ‘prentice when I get a little older and go to doggy daycare. I can hardly wait! I don’t know what a ‘prentice is, but I bet it’s really cool.