Flashback : Baby & Tyrants

Flashback time!

When the little human tyrant was younger, I didn't blog regularly. Which is a shame, because there were so many things better remembered if written down. The whole point of blogging about the tyrants is to capture memories for later years. But no worries, it's not too late!

There are numerous photos of the human tyrant rolling about with the furry ones now, but when he was a little baby we kept them separate as much as possible. The tyrants, no matter how well behaved, are still dogs with big teeth and claws, and the baby is still a helpless little human.

We had a tyrant-free playroom for the baby to learn to crawl and roll around in safety. In the living room the baby was always in his playpen, playing in his safety zone while the tyrants lazed about on the floor.

When we felt the baby was ready (and the tyrants too! they too needed time to adjust to the little human) we gradually let them be together in the same area. These pictures are from the first time we let them 'chill' together on the floor in the living room. The human is about 7 months old at this time, just learning to crawl.

Togo is scared of the toddler!

Forever Young

Togo has not aged much.
He looks the same now as he did 3 years ago!

He says his secret to looking young and youthful is to laze around doing nothing the whole day.

June 2009

March 2012

Gamby Sitting

Even now, three years after her surgery, it still makes us smile to see Gamby sitting down so comfortably.

Goats

This plant has lush, healthy leaves on top...

... and sad bits of leaves at the bottom...

... because ...

... because ...

... because ...

... we have GOATS.

Local Gangster Dogs

Lately there is a pack of gangster dogs roaming our streets.

Every time they pass by our house the tyrants get excited.

The girls, Tagar and Gamby, get excited because the macho gangster dogs are much more better looking than the resident lazy male, Togo.

Togo, meanwhile, gets all excited barking them challenges, from behind the safety of the gate.

 And the human tyrant gets excited because his dogs are excited. Haha. 

 What's there?

 Let me see! Let me see!

 Oooh! Gangster dogs!

Hard At Work

The tyrants were hard at work today.
Doing what they do best.

Chicken Pox

Daddy caught some chicken. Pox, that is.

And with chicken pox being harsher on adults, Daddy is not having a easy time. He's spotty and feverish and  achy and itchy and generally having a miserable time, isolated alone in the room away from his kids.

The kids (both furry and not) had no idea he was even in the house. I'm keeping the non-furry one away to avoid him being unnecessarily exposed to the chicken pox.

The kids are missing their daddy terribly. Daddy is missing them very much too. He can hear them playing downstairs and it makes him miss them even more.

Yesterday I let the furries come up to visit their Daddy. They were so overjoyed to see him after the long absence. They surrounded him, tails wagging, nose sniffing furiously at odd-smelling Daddy. It cheered Daddy up a lot to be smothered with so much enthusiastic love.

Oh, I googled before-hand. Chicken pox is one of the many human diseases that cannot be passed on to dogs.

Now that the furry tyrants know that daddy is upstairs, they keep asking to go up for a visit. I let them go up a few times a day, when the non-furry one is asleep.

The furry tyrants certainly bring a lot of cheer to recuperating Daddy.

Get well soon, Daddy.

The Siberian Husky Meme

Hahaha. This is SO TRUE.

 

These are what we actually own.

McDonalds Fries

The tyrants love love loooove McDonalds fries.

Every time we bring home McDonalds the tyrants surround us, and wait patiently for us to finish our burgers and 'donate' them our fries. We often donate almost all our fries to the tyrants and their cute 'feed-us' faces. Sometimes we even buy back extra fries just for them.

To the tyrants horror, the little human tyrant has also taken a liking to McDonalds fries! In fact the human tyrant will eat nothing but the fries. The first time he sat down and ate the fries, we could see the furry tyrants circling him and shooting us desperate looks. 'He's eating our fries, he's eating our fries!!'.

Luckily the little human tyrant is not as greedy as the furry tyrants. Having seen us feed them fries on countless times before, he shared the fries with them.

Now we have to buy extra extra fries when we have McDonalds.

Food Vacumm

Kids are messy eaters.

But we don't have to clean up much after our very messy 2-and-half year old. Because we have the best food vacuum machine - a Tagar! When it's his mealtime, Tagar will abandon her nap and come wait patiently under his chair. All dropped (and spat out) food get cleaned up the moment it touches the ground. So handy, this 'machine'.






 

Groupon Mania : T-Shirts

Groupon is so addictive! I keep buying customizable stuff, and (no surprise) more often that not gets customized with the tyrants cheeky faces.

Here's one item we recently collected - Personalized T-Shirts from ZiccoTees at half price. I bought two t-shirts. Guess who got printed on them?

 Size M Red T-Shirt

Size L Black T-Shirt

As with any dark colored clothing we own, the tyrants make sure they add their fluff to further personalize the t-shirts. 

Thanks a lot, tyrants.

Durian Dogs

Our Siberian Huskies are proving to be very Malaysian, with their love of DURIAN.

Durian, the king of fruits.

The tyrants go berserk when we bring home durians. They will be hopping up and down and tail us constantly until they get to eat some.

We usually buy them some fruits of their own. The more common and cheaper ones, no way they're going to be gobbling all out D24's! We once had a seller who was taking his time choosing the best fruits from the pile and we wanted to tell him "It's okay, it's just for the dogs! They'll eat anything!" Of course we didn't tell him that lah.

We eat first, always, so when we're joyfully tucking into our durians we get three impatient tyrants circling the table, urging us to eat faster and get on to feeding them.

 

Tyrants waiting waiting waiting for their turn.

And finally, it's their turn! We don't give them so much at one time, because durians are very heaty. And also because they sleep in the room with us at night, and a dog burping and farting after durian is NOT FUNNY.

Three dogs burping and farting durian is VERY NOT FUNNY!