he does not sleep at night.\u00c2\u00a0 No sir.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s when Lloyd practices singing, yelping, yowling, panting, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThere is no reason to believe that Lloyd will be anything but humongous.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s why the present is rather hilarious, or will be more so in about 6 months.\u00c2\u00a0 The hardwood floors are far too slippery for Lloyd, for instance.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s as if we have a baby gate up, he won’t willingly walk onto them.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, he seems very happy to be carried up and down any stairs, for they are far too huge for him to contemplate.\u00c2\u00a0 They aren’t really, but he has no confidence yet, so we carry him most places for now.\u00c2\u00a0 His paws (which I really have to get a better picture of to show you) are the same size as Harvey’s.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe not in sheer mass, but in displacement.\u00c2\u00a0 These paws are made to support a much larger structure than they currently do.\u00c2\u00a0 It makes me realize that you don’t build a bridge from the top down, and the paws are the first thing to swell to enormous size so that the rest of his body can do the same.<\/p>\n
He isn’t very big on moving around, but when he runs, it’s like a bunny rabbit at the moment, rocking forward and back.<\/p>\n
You can be sure there will be more of Lloyd (and Harvey) to see here in the coming months as Nikki and I become besotted with him like first time parents again.<\/p>\n
Note that in this picture, it’s his back paw you can see between his two front ones, and not his willy.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a family blog, people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s done.\u00c2\u00a0 A recent fit of insanity, and we now own two dogs.\u00c2\u00a0 Not just any two dogs, of course.\u00c2\u00a0 Two large dogs. Meet Lloyd.\u00c2\u00a0 He is basically a stuffed animal that does three things: captivates anyone who looks at … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news","category-llife-with-lloyd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-rk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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