The Dog Phase

Miles is in his dog phase. During pregnancy he went through many different phases- one where he looked like a chicken, one where he looked like a fish, like a lizard, etc. Once he was born, there was the loaf of bread phase, the plucked chicken phase, and the reptilian brain phase. But now he is in the dog phase. What, exactly, does the dog phase entail, you ask?

Well, he is unusually friendly, ridiculously attached to his owners/parents, makes this "mmm, mmm, mmm" whine like a dog and he loves shoes. Especially chewing on them. He has a special attachment to his father's duck shoes but he also likes my slippers, my black slip-ons and, well, just about any shoes he can get his hands on, including his own. He will fold himself double to chew on his own shoes. One day, I actually had to take his shoes and hide them because he was chewing the dye right out of them.

Personally, I'm waiting for the moment when he begins to chase his own tail.