We are taking care of Blumen this week.

Because Finn is still with us.

She was none too pleased with me…

Brian started this routine with zen to go down to west cliff before Gavin’s gym class. Yesterday we ended up at the wrong beach, but it was a gorgeous morning.

Today we stayed close to home..

I’m trying to get outside as much as possible so we took another walk at Henry Cowell today. This time I brought the kids. Spring has sprung!

I stopped to fix her gentle leader and I just loved how the flowers matched her eyes. She was just hot…

Zen is 4.5 months which I think is the equivalent of 18 weeks? She finally had a growth spurt and is getting into that famous swissy “leggy” stage.

We did a few “firsts.” Like, go to the beach.

And playing a LOT at the field near our house. But Zen isn’t too interested in running around for more than 10 minutes. She’s more interested in rolling and lounging in the grass.

We’ve been meeting a lot of nice dogs on this field which has been GREAT to build up Zen’s confidence. The puppy socials haven’t been doing too much for her and she tends to just slink around the edges and watch all the action. But when there is only one or two dogs.. she is really interested in socializing. She still acts very submissive with them and the best results are with calm dogs that just want to lay around with her. Here was a nice lab mix who put up with her.

Here a few photos of us just messing around the house. This first one cracks me up because I have no idea what Gavin was trying to do but he was hell bent to crawl under Zen and pretend her body was a bridge. Zen is still mouthy, especially with the kids.. but they’ve gotten pretty good at telling her “off.”

Some more around the house:

Here’s a pic of her standing. She’s really got that great adolescent frame on her now.

And these last two just show how photogenic my girl is. Someday, i’ll get a picture of her smiling. That pose seems to be illusive, but she’s got the intense “look-into-my-eyes-thing” down.