Ok so these past few months haven't been the greatest. Someone very special to us became very ill and we lost him on January 10 :o( On January 5 my sister and I flew out to see him in AZ so my mother-in-law offered to come and help out with the girls while I was gone. She was a HUGE help and I really appreciate that she took time out of her life to come help when we needed her.
When I spoke to her on the phone we went over things (school, girls activities, etc) we also went over what she should NOT do and that was anything to do with Gabriel LOL! Honestly he is a very good boy but being 2 years old he still exhibits alot of his "puppy" tendencies and I was alittle nervous that he would exhibit them right directly on my mother-in-law and she would end up at Riverview with broken bones - though I am sure on Gabriel's end that would have been purely accidental as that poor boy does still has not idea how darn strong he is. So I told her not to worry at all about Gabriel that Scott and the girls would take care of him as we have all been "trained" in the area of Gabriel care.
After a very hard few days I returned home to find everyone in one piece (thank goodness :o) my house was nice and clean and all the laundry was done (thank you MOM!!!!) She had dinner all ready which was very nice after sitting on a plane all day. While we were eating we were just talking about the last few days and then it "slipped" out ..... apparently being the helpful woman she is my MIL decided she would "try" to help with Gabriel :o) Now here is how it works in our house we have a pretty big kitchen/greatroom so we have a one of those baby play-yards that goes from wall to wall and that whole enclosed "area" is Gabriel territory. I always joke and tell people that when you go in that area you take your life into your own hands and I cannot be responsible for what may happen. See Gabriel is always very excited when someone enters his domain and he usually greets that poor soul by licking, jumping, etc. Now if you are like me and totally use to that you are expecting it so you are able to fend him off pretty succesfully (plus he knows better now and he doesn't jump on his mom though he will lick me like crazy and lean up against me every chance he gets) but anyway my poor MIL is not used to any of this and when she tried to go over (I think maybe she was going to let him out in the yard?) her foot got caught on the gate and she tripped over the top and basically fell into lion's den YIKES!!! Now Heather was asleep on the couch and only caught the tail end of the whole incident and of course whenever I ask her about she bursts out laughing (and mind you I only allow the laughing because MIL was NOT hurt) but here is the part that I am loving - my good boy was just that a GOOD boy - she said when she fell he almost acted like he was "concerned" he came over and just sniffed around her and then just stood there - he didn't go nuts and try to take her down he was just a concerned bystander LOL! Luckily after that little incident MIL did not try to go over to his area again - oh wait except for one other time apparently one of the girls let him out so MIL decided she would let him back in now normally when he goes out in the yard we need to lure him back in the house with some sort of treat but since MIL is all new to this and he knows that he was very interested when he saw her standing by the open door so he took off basically charging at the door which in turn made MIL slam the door shut LOL! So yea thank goodness everything turned out ok - no one was hurt LOL!!! Gabriel behaved himself for the most part so yea I think she will come back (I hope) to watch the girls and Gabriel again - by that time hopefully all the puppy-ness will be almost gone and he will be the true couch potato he was intended to be :o)
