A Weekend's Worth of Mila Mishaps

Dan's parents visited for the first time this weekend with their dog, Sadie. It was a quick, but fun, weekend (even though I had to work yesterday). So, that's what this blog post is going to be about. But as the title suggests, it will also be about Mila.

We decided to take a snooze on the sofa while we waited for them to arrive, since it was going to be about midnight. Mila snuggled up with me and hardly moved when they got here, not even when Dan went out the front door. As soon as she heard their voices, though, she flew to the door with the shrillest series of yelps. I guess the next morning, Dan let her out of her kennel and she ran straight for the stairs. (Now that she has figured out how to climb the stairs on her own, she goes up all the time.) I have to wonder if that's what she thought about all night: the company upstairs.

All the critters...and Dan

 I didn't get done with work until after 2:00 yesterday, so I came home and napped a little, then showered and got ready for our date night with his parents. It was our first time visiting the Prime Time Tavern, and guess what's on their menu? You got it: prime rib. Prime rib dinner, large prime rib, and so on. They do have steak and filet mignon on certain nights, too.

We stopped at home afterward to let the dogs out and let our dinner settle before going to the theater to see Prometheus.  I wasn't really a fan, but Dan enjoyed it. We didn't get home until about midnight. Sadie greeted us at the door, and Loki was waiting for us, as well. Okay...so where was Mila? She always greets us--very vocally, I might add--at the door. The first place I looked was the bed, then upstairs. She was nowhere to be found. I started to panic. Had we left her out in the yard before we left? I could have sworn she was in the living room when we said good-bye.

Then we heard Dan laughing in the bedroom. Mila was on the other side of the bed in Loki's kennel, where they never, ever go. Apparently, the door had swung shut (but not latched) behind her, so she must have thought she was locked inside. She made not a PEEP, but she was wiggling ferociously with excitement. Maybe she was playing hide-and-seek with us....

After our company left today, I was busy talking on the phone and Mila suddenly started barking. She ran into the bedroom and kept yipping at me. Propping her front paws up on the bed, she peered at me like, "Aren't you going to see who's here?" I guess she had heard a dinging sound on Dan's phone and thought it was the doorbell.

Sandy & Jeff with Sadie

 After a while, I was on my computer and got a glimpse of Mila as she propelled herself onto the bottom step and trotted up the stairs. It was the weirdest thing, because she never goes up there unless she is following one of us up, or if someone is already up there. I thought she was maybe going to look for Sadie or just take a quiet nap up there. So, we sneaked up the stairs and didn't see her on her bed. She eventually heard us coming up and very casually walked out of the office. Who knows what goes on in the head of a puppy....