A Boy's Best Friend

Meet Maggie. 

She is Max's monster of a Mastiff dog.  She is easily waist high on me, and definitely WAY bigger than Kaden even though she is a few months younger.  This is her perch on the front porch, an old wooden pew that she can guard the door from.  That way no one gets in or out without her knowledge.  Kaden loved to go in and out that door, partly because he could open it himself and partly because 'd-ahh' (aka dog) was always waiting there to greet him.

Why am I standing back and taking a picture while that dog eats my son's hand you ask?

Well I don't know exactly what is going on, Kaden is probably feeding her something, but Maggie was so amazingly gentle with Kaden so I wasn't worried.  She treated him like he was her puppy. 

She's as big as a horse!

Kaden and Maggie just hanging out in the shade and talking.

So the first time I saw Kaden tackle her like this I was a little freaked out.  I was sure she was going to say enough is enough and lash out at him, but she never did.

He got a little scratch (and I stress little) here and there from their wrestling matches, but Maggie never got him on purpose.

Jeremy is trying to help them get untangled.  Sometimes they would get all twisted and it was difficult for them to separate without Kaden getting a little bit banged up.

We really want to get Kaden a dog, but don't feel like Kindi is old enough for that yet.  I don't want to have to worry about a dog stepping on her, I already do enough of that with Kaden!

Looking at this picture you would never know that he was a bit intimidated by Maggie the first night we were there.  He learned quickly that Maggie wasn't allowed on the cement BBQ area though.  He would run out onto the grass and wait for her to come near then he would run back to the cement and look at her, teasing her.  It was pretty sweet.

I don't really want a dog as big as this, but I sure did love watching them interact.  For several days after we got home Kaden would get so excited whenever he heard a dog bark.  He'd point and exclaim, 'd-ah!'.

Apparently Maggie had a dirty face?  Or maybe she was drooling like sissy does?  In either case Kaden felt the need to clean her face.

Then try out some grass just like dogs do!

So this:

irritates me... a LOT!  I tried and tried and tried to upload a great video of Kaden and Maggie wrestling.  I tried making it shorter, I tried saving it in different formats, and different places, but all I ever got was 'failure to upload video'.  Grrrrr.  It was a really fun video too!
Well I think this concludes our Milton Freewater adventures (Although I can't be positive until I go home and double check my files.) so I hope you enjoyed, or were at least slightly amused by them!