So Gussie and I do this thing where he comes in the door at the end of the day,  I squat down to hug him and he takes a running leap from 12 steps away into my lap and body slams me with his full 35 pounds of weight, arms wrapped around my head.  That means he’s happy to see me.  It’s quite a balancing pose, I’d highly recommend it.

And then I say, “I *missed* you today”. And he says, “I missed you too!”

Last night after the usual body slam welcome he ran into the kitchen and found his yellow blankie on the floor.  Yellow Blankie is the Soft Source Of Comfort That Could Not Be Lived Without.

He yells, “Yellow Blankie!  I *missed* you today!”

Then he grabs it and runs out of the kitchen yelling, “I missed you too!”

That yellow blankie.  Always muscling in on my thing….