We need a yard...

This past weekend was definitely exhausting for poor Guinness and myself.  It was a whole lot of trips up and down the 5 flights of stairs to the garage to get him out to the bathroom/grass (Have I mentioned recently how much I hate our apartment complex and wish we were renting a house with a yard?).  Giardia is no joke... And poor Guinness was quite tired all weekend, and he even fell asleep on my lap twice when I was sitting on the floor with him, and he never does that - He's always wayyyyy too hyper and active.  I'm hoping he starts feeling better soon.

With all of those trips up and down the stairs throughout the day every day and all of the walks I take with Guinness, I don't understand why I'm not getting in better shape!  It could possible have something to do with my very poor diet (I did consume a lot of Oreos this weekend...), but who knows.  My family's trip to Hawaii is coming up soon though (just over 3 months), so it's time to get serious about getting in shape.  I'm thinking about doing one of those 30-day Challenge things for sit-ups and squats!  I know there's one of those for push-ups too, but I've always hated push-ups... It takes me back to the days in high school when we'd have to do push-up tests in P.E. in front of the whole class (anybody else remember that stupid football that the teacher would hold?).  I really need to start eating better too... Which will probably mean I'll have to start cooking more, since eating takeout is almost always unhealthy :(  And I should probably stop eating Oreos.

Here's more pictures of Guinness (because I know you all can't be sick of them yet, right? haha :) ).

Guinness looking sad because he doesn't feel good...

But then he cheered up when I said his name!  It's not too hard to cheer him up.

 He seriously zens out sometimes when he starts chewing on towels.  He'll close his eyes or sometimes his eyes roll back (he's doing that in the picture... kinda creepy!), and he just chews and chews.  He's in the zone!

And you can kinda sorta see in the 2nd towel picture how cool the coloring in his fur is getting.  It's way better in person though, trust me.  Every bit of black in his fur is now also another color.  On the top of his back, there's dark brown mixed in with the black, and on his sides there's a lot of white and lighter brown mixed in with the black.  I'm excited to see what he ends up looking like!  It's so funny to compare to the coloring he had when he was a puppy:

Oh, and one thing to add about that picture of him as a puppy:  the size of a puppy's paws determining how big they'll get as adults does NOT always work.  Look at how tiny his paws were!  Everyone (his veterinarian and puppy class trainer included) thought he'd stay pretty medium-sized because he did not have big paws... They thought he'd max out around 40 or 45 pounds.  Well... Our dear boy is not even 6 months yet (almost!), and he's about 45 pounds already.  My new guess for his full-size is 60-65 pounds.  I've always loved big dogs, so I definitely don't mind... But we're just definitely going to need a yard for him!