Puppy Love

Azuki loves her pa. Every night Matt comes home Azuki goes bizark and gives him a hell of a greeting. He is her biggest and most favorite toy.

Their nightly rituals including Matt acting stupid with the dog, rolling around with her, teaching her Kung Fu moves. It always ends with him laying on the floor and Azuki scrambling all over him, enthusiastically licking the day's sweat and toil from his face. I think she likes the salty flavor of sweat and oil on him, because she acts like it is the most delicious treat she has ever tasted, shoving her long, snake-like tongue up his nostrils until Matt screeches in pain. After she giives him facial cleansing, if she is tired, she will usually settle down and rest next to him. You can almost hear her sigh from a satified exhaustion.

How can this picture not make me get all gooey? There is my husband, a grown man, laying on the ground in his undershirt and boxers, with the pup resting comfortably in his arms.