• My Mom says I have a "love button" face..what does that mean? Is that kinda like when she calls Hannah Peanut butter or oops, Mom says Hannah doesn't like the other PB name that she calls her. Hannah is my Dad and Mom's niece. Dad said that was the first thing Hannah asked him,, when he called up to Washington, was how I was..and I have never met her! Cool, huh? I met another niece, her name is Stormy, and well, she rubbed my ears really nice. I about fell off her lap it felt so good. I met her when she was with her Grandpa on her way home when I first got to Oregon.

I have gotten some of my retrieving commands down pretty good so far. I understand "back" and what Dad wants. I even bring him the wings without having to be asked twice. I still can't get that "down" thing. Mom says that I need to figure out "off" in a hurry. See, I am getting bigger and Mom makes a protein shake a couple of times a day and I really like the ice machine and I pretty much have it figured out how to get the fridge to give me my own ice cube. Won't that be cool? Need somethin' cool and I smack that paddle and out comes a ton of ice?? Well, I think it would be nifty, but I don't think my Mom thinks so. She keeps telling me "off!" Party pooper!

I will be a great counter surfer once I am tall enough. I am almost to the point where I can see when I lean against the counters. Dad says I am going to be worse that Oliver, The Great Hunter! Wow! That has got to be good, right?

I heard Dad say that Duck Season opens this Saturday and they are going out, but I am too young to go. He says I don't need a bad experience before I have a good one. Probably the right thing, but boy do I like to go rather than to stay. Next year though, right?

Well, off I go to play with Miss Moose and little Marcus, although Marc has kinda had it with me today. I think I have been bugging him too much. Nah, that couldn't be it?

I am Hugh