Instant Toy Poodle, Just Add Water
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dr_pretentiousWe should have carpeted the living room months ago, before Gareth started learning to walk. A kid falls down a lot while learning to walk, and the surfaces available to fall down on in our house are mostly hardwood and tile. Ouch. We just kept thinking he was almost done with the falling down several times a day.
But now that he can walk, he wants to run. And after running, I gather there will be jumping, and climbing, and climbing so as to jump, etc. We are nowhere near the end of falling down several times a day.
The carpet style Dan and I could agree on is called Toy Poodle, and all the colors have stereotypical poodle names like Fifi Orange, Bijou Blue, Fluffy Fuchsia. I have to admit, it made our negotiations easier about which samples to order that we kept cracking ourselves up saying the names.
The samples arrived in today's mail, and the carpet's pile really does look exactly like the coat of a freshly groomed toy poodle, though several of these colors would be most unnatural on a dog. Looking at these little plastic-backed squares, I can't help thinking of those expanding sponge dinosaur toys--you know the ones?--and picturing our living room full of knee high, palm green poodles.
But now that he can walk, he wants to run. And after running, I gather there will be jumping, and climbing, and climbing so as to jump, etc. We are nowhere near the end of falling down several times a day.
The carpet style Dan and I could agree on is called Toy Poodle, and all the colors have stereotypical poodle names like Fifi Orange, Bijou Blue, Fluffy Fuchsia. I have to admit, it made our negotiations easier about which samples to order that we kept cracking ourselves up saying the names.
The samples arrived in today's mail, and the carpet's pile really does look exactly like the coat of a freshly groomed toy poodle, though several of these colors would be most unnatural on a dog. Looking at these little plastic-backed squares, I can't help thinking of those expanding sponge dinosaur toys--you know the ones?--and picturing our living room full of knee high, palm green poodles.
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Date: 2008-12-05 09:22 am (UTC)Just skin these!
Date: 2008-12-05 03:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-05 06:37 pm (UTC)Are you sure
Date: 2008-12-10 01:31 am (UTC)Cause you will soon discover that when he isn't falling on the carpet, he will be massaging fig newtons into it. It boggled the mind that my children could possibly think it was a good idea to paint on walls or floor with pink yoghurt, but they did. If there is a homemaker equivalent of road rage, I've experienced it.
At least it's not dyed shag
Date: 2008-12-12 09:01 pm (UTC)