Our Friends and Neighbors

Recently, Henrey and I got new next door neighbors...Negeen, a smarty pants PhD candidate who just moved here from Chicago, and Nikita, her six month old Alaskan Malamute puppy. Although Nikita is only six months old, she is already an impressive sixty pounds! Nikita is full of energy and love, and is always down for a good play! I recently shared a squeaky toy with Nikita, and Negeen tells me it has quickly become Nikita's go-to toy.

Last night, Negeen had a rude dinner guest who was "incredibly allergic to dogs," and insisted Negeen make last minute arrangements for someone to watch Nikita during the dinner...in steps Mel. Nikita came over for the evening, and Henrey, Auntie Tina, and I happily babysat. Side note: Christina (Tina) is our other next door neighbor. She has a ten year old peek-a-poo named Wicket who is lovely, but can be a little cranky, so he didn't join us for the fun last night (he was not happy about this). Wicket and Henney have been BFFs for over a year now, and Tina is (hopefully) going to create a blog for Wicket soon, so look for Wicket's link in Henrey's "friends" section.

Henrey has a fort under my bed filled with about a thousand toys and God knows what else. Nikita can barely fit under the bed, but for almost four hours, ran around my tiny apartment nonstop, making loops in and out of Henrey's fort. Henrey was not a fan of this at first, as he is an only child and therefore stingy, but he loosened up toward the end of the night. Nikita had a great time, found a ridiculous amount of toys in the fort to play with, enjoyed some bones and pretty much just ran around all night. Tina and I had Henrey up on my bed so that him and Nikita would not get into it, but all Nikita wanted to do was snuggle with all of us. So she ended her four hours of non-stop playing in bed with us snuggling. I snapped a picture of the pups with Tina.

Negeen and Nikita have quickly become good friends of ours, and we loved having Nikita over to play!! It is so nice to have great friends in our building, and even nicer that they have such wonderful dogs. There is definitely never a dull moment!

On Halloween, Henrey the dinosaur, Negeen, Nikita (who has yet to get a costume, but will very soon), and I are going to sit outside the building and hand out dog bones and candy for children. (Tina and Wicket would join, but they have cooler things to do on Halloween). We are looking forward to the fun that will be coming soon!