Merry Christmas. What did I get?

Sorry everyone. It has been forever since I have posted a new blog post. Things have been crazy busy but finally is calming down down.

Riggs was VERY excited to see what Santa brought him in his stocking. It is obvious pretty quickly what stuffed animal Riggs favors. *Sigh* Three new stuffed animals to come up with names for. Good Grief.

I hope all of you have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Enjoy the video of Riggs opening his stocking

Toy Chest - Tuesday

It is that time again.  I have no idea what this is suppose to be.  A mouse? A little bear?  Who knows.  Also I don't know where Mama comes up with some of these names for these stuffed animals that she does.  Anyway introducing.........

Uki

Difference of opinion

Riggs does not think he is spoiled.  According to him he does not have enough stuffed animals, food, treats, Nylabones, etc…

I showed Riggs the following photos and pointed out to him why he is.

So inspecting the photos I see the following which convinces me you are spoiled:

• You appear to be laying on a comfy king size bed
• You appear to be surrounded by multiple stuffed animals
• You appear to be chewing a Nylabone that you love

The conclusion I come to is you are definitely spoiled buddy.

Toy Chest - Tuesday

Before introducing our new toy this Tuesday, Riggs wants to send out a big thank you to all the new friends and followers he met this past two weeks.  He is VERY excited seeing all the photos and reading about all his other new buddies.  A special thanks to Winston for posting a blog posting about Riggs, Riggs got introduced to several new friends because of Winston.  Thanks again buddy.

Ok since many of you are brand new to the blog then it would be best to do a refresher on what Toy Chest - Tuesday is all about.  When we picked up Riggs back in late May 2009, we got him several different types of toys.  Balls, bones, ropes, a kong and a few stuffed animals.  It became very obvious that Riggs LOVES stuffed animals.  Of course Mama spoils Riggs rotten and his collection of stuffed animals grew exponentially.  Each time Mama got Riggs a new toy (a.k.a. stuffed animal) she would give the stuffed animal a name.  At the beginning when there were not that many to keep track off Riggs did a pretty good job at grabbing the stuffed animal we called by name but after awhile and the pile got huge it was pretty much a lost cause of Riggs bring the stuffed animal we mention by name.

So I decided I would start a blog series called "Toy Chest - Tuesday" where I introduce everyone to one of his stuffed animals until I got through every single one of them.  Granted at the beginning I was introducing a new stuffed animal every week to try and catch up and slowly got to the point where I do it about once a month now and here we are 2 1/2 years later and I am still not caught up at introducing them all yet.  Now anyone that owns a dog knows that stuffed animals will not last forever and so when the time comes during Toy Chest - Tuesday there will also be a R.I.P. (Rest In Pieces) for the stuffed animals that have not survived the wrath of Riggs.

So if you ever want to catch up on all the stuffed animals introduced so far just click on the "stuffed animal" label and you can see all the stuffed animals this little spoiled rotten bugger has gotten thus far.

So without further ado today I introduce you all to:

Grape Ape

Toy Chest - Tuesday

Let's see what is left in here. Digging down deep, nope already did that one, nope did that one also. Aaahh here we go, this guy is new.

Jacques

I think he is a robot

I am not really sure if Riggs is as much a dog as he is a robot.  Riggs is all about routine and schedule and never deviates from it.  Nothing ever changes.  His internal clock goes off at various times of the day or after certain order of events.

Riggs Schedule (Weekday)

• Wake up at 6:15 am and begin pestering Dada (aka lick lick lick lick) to wake up and feed me.  Proceed to do this for the next 45min to an hour till Dada cannot take it any longer and gets out of bed.
• Run downstairs as fast as I can and run around in circles as I wait impatiently for Dada to get my food ready.
• Stand there and whine and jump on Dada because he is taking way too long to get my food ready.
• Inhale my food as fast as I can, licking every last morsel from in the bowl and all around the bowl.
• Run back upstairs and grab a stuffed animal ready to play.  Begin whining if no one will pay attention and play with me.
• Go for a walk outside around the neighborhood, sniff all the light poles, bushes and as many grass piles as I can get away with dragging Dada to.
• Pee 3 – 4 times.
• Poo twice.
• Wait for Dada to give me a treat back at home.
• Lay down and begin sad pouty face to make Dada feel guilty for leaving me home as he leaves for work.
• Stand at door waiting for Mama to enter coming home from work.
• Run over and grab Angry Face or Pink Eye stuffed animal ready to play.
• Go outside and pee but then stand around and not poo.  I want to eat!!!
• Stand there and whine and jump on Mama because she is taking way too long to get my food ready.
• Inhale my food as fast as I can, licking every last morsel from in the bowl and all around the bowl.
• Run back upstairs and grab a stuffed animal ready to play.  Begin whining if no one will pay attention and play with me.
• Lay down next to Mama.
• Run to door when I hear garage door open and stand there waiting for Dada to enter coming home from work.
• Run over and grab Angry Face or Pink Eye stuffed animal ready to play.
• Go outside and finally poo and pee again.
• Stand under the table and lick lick lick lick Dada’s legs as he eats dinner.
• At 7:30pm, begin sitting or standing and staring at Mama and Dada waiting for one of them to get up and go get me a carrot out of the frig.  FINALLY at 8pm I get my carrot.
• Make a complete mess breaking my carrot up into tiny pieces and then eat it.
• Grab a stuffed animal and stand at the bottom of the stairs waiting for Mama to go upstairs to crawl into bed.
• Lay in bed and suck on Paris Hilton’s nose.
• Chew on my Nylabone.
• Play tug-a-war with one of my stuffed animals with Mama.
• Fall asleep.
• Act like dead weight and pretend I am sleeping when Dada comes to bed and wants to take me outside one last time.
• Pee once.
• Go over to Dada when he crawls into bed and begin lick lick lick licking him.
• After getting pushed away 4-5 times I finally give up and fall back asleep waiting for 6:15am to arrive to start it all over again.

Toy Chest - Tuesday

We are in the home stretch folks.  Almost caught up with all the stuffed animals.

Gus the platypus

Making out with Paris Hilton

Riggs is in love.  Stinky Nanners (yellow monkey) and Sunny (orange monkey) no longer matter to him.  He is all about Paris Hilton (pink monkey).

Riggs sucking on Paris Hilton's nose.

Massacre

Wholly crap!  Today we had a massacre.  It has been quite a long time since I have had to post any R.I.P. (Rest In Pieces) but today Riggs successfully destroyed three of his stuffed animals in one day.

I was working on the computer and Riggs was not laying beside my chair like he typically does so I went to investigate and this is what I found in the bedroom.

Wheezy's insides all over the floor.

R.I.P. (Rest In Pieces):

Wheezy the penguin

Bruce the bat

Ducky #2

Toy Chest - Tuesday

Yes another colored monkey.  This time it is pink.  Enjoy the name.

Paris Hilton

Ready to play

Every time we go out and get back home, Riggs does the exact same thing.  He stands at the garage door waiting for us to open it, then he stretches and then he runs over and grabs "Angry Face" or "Pink Eye" and is ready to play.

Toy Chest - Tuesday

Don't think we have introduced this guy yet.  I am losing track.

Checkers the cow

Toy Chest - Tuesday

Three new characters to introduce today.  They came in a three pack together.

Angry Face

Pink Eye

Ummmm....I have no clue

Multipurpose stuffed animal

Looks like Riggs has found more than one use for some of his stuffed animals.  Here he is using Froggy #3 (I think) as a pillow.

Toy Chest - Tuesday

Neither one of us remember what we named this one.  Heck we can't even figure out what this thing is.  Any idea?

???

Toy Chest - Tuesday

I think we are finally getting in the home stretch of new stuffed animals to introduce.  We finally have educated ourselves on what stuffed animals will last and which will get destroyed.  Today we introduce...

Stitch

R.I.P. (Rest In Pieces):

Baboo the monkey

If any of you remember back on 12/22/2009 during Toy Chest - Tuesday I introduced Baboo to you guys and told you he makes this loud screeching sound when you squeeze him and Riggs loves to squeeze him over and over.  I mentioned that I hoped he destroyed that stuffed animal quickly.  As you can see it took over a year for him to finally destroy him.  

What did Santa bring me?

Christmas morning has arrived and Riggs must know as soon as possible what Santa brought him.

Oh boy what did I get?

Penny the penguin

Baby Jay

Toy Chest - Tuesday

Today's bundle of joy is...

Frank (from Men in Black)

One by one upstairs they come

Riggs use to sleep downstairs until Mama nagged and nagged Dada to let him sleep upstairs in bed with us.  All of Riggs toys (I mean stuffed animals) were downstairs in a big pile.  Well over the past several weeks Riggs has been strategically bringing one stuffed animal upstairs at a time and before I know it the bedroom is covered in stuffed animals and nylabones.

Toy Chest - Tuesday

Halloween is right around the corner so we got Riggs a new stuffed animal.

Casper the ghost