Murphy's Newsletter, April 9, 2001

Murphy's Newsletter
Jan 7, 2002

Hello All!

This is our second Christmas update, and a third will follow as soon as I get the film in my camera developed. These pictures were all taken Christmas morning on Allie's camera, by my father.

These photos show Allie helping Murph unwrap his presents. I'm not positive what was in each of these bags, but I think they were gifts from Allie...so that would make them a fetch stick (it looks like a tennis ball that's been narrowed and elongated) and a red squeaky ball with snowmen on it. Murphy likes both gifts, but insists on ripping the fuzz off the fetch stick, so he hasn't had much time with that gift. He plays with the snowman ball daily though, and loves walking around with it in his mouth, squeaking it.

I'm not sure what was in the package Allie is helping him with above. That might be a bag of chicken bagels, or even a gift for someone other than Murph...he might have just been sniffing it.

Then below we have me helping Murph with one of his gifts. This one was probably from my parents; a gift certificate for 30 days of daycare. Just before Christmas I had bought a card for ten visits, so now Murphy is set for most of 2002!

In addition to the gifts pictured here, Murphy also received a Gumabone Frisbee that he's already learned how to catch, a new Nylabone and a bunch of Christmas cookies. I forgot to take a picture of those, but they were cut into Christmas shapes like snowmen, stockings, stars, Santas, reindeer etc.

And in addition to all the presents, Murphy was given the gift of being allowed to hang out in the living room. All Christmas morning he hung out there with us, without needing to leap over the couch to gain admittance!

So that's it for now. I only have a couple more pictures left to go on the roll in my camera, so the third and final Christmas update should be coming soon.

Email me!

Meghan

Here's the link to the next update: Jan 31, 2002
Here's the link to the previous update: Jan 2, 2002