A Boy and His Dog

Aric likes to share and give things to people, though he hasn't quite learned how to give without wanting the item immediately returned. It's not a problem when Aric gives something to Ryan or me. We usually tell him "thank you" and then hand the object right back to him. Most of the time neither one of us really wanted the said item in the first place. Tonight it turned into a bit of a problem.

Aric was outside and had a stick. Aric gave the stick to the dog. The dog wanted the stick and so did Aric. A mild game of tug of war commenced. Aric won a couple of times, but kept giving the stick back to the dog. The dog, finally tired of it, walked away with the stick in his mouth, plopped into the grass, dropped the stick and came back. Aric, completely uninterested in the dog without the stick, ran off to play with daddy's golf clubs. Thank goodness for short attention spans.

These photos were not from tonight, they were from a couple of days ago with the same stick. Maybe it's better that the stick has "disappeared" into the yard.