An Introduction to the Fathead.

About a month ago, we started fostering this new big, gorgeous dog. We found out within a couple hours that he's also a stark-raving idiot. He also looks absolutely terrifying and very enthusiastically protects his house and people from intruders (we found out the hard way). But the best part about him is that he's Seven's best friend and he babies her like she's his pup, constantly following her around to check on her. So, needless to say, Boyfriend signed papers to adopt him.
So for the past month, we've had this beast of a dog invade our lives. He's wonderful and we love him. And this blog entry is becoming a sappy dedication to the damn dog. Anyway...

Meet Blue. AKA "the Fathead."

This is what Blue looks like to other people:

This is what Blue looks like to us:

So Blue does this thing (please tell me if anybody else has experienced this... I had to google it!) when he's "feeling the love," as I put it, where he like, corncob nibbles everything. You know how dogs scratch an itch with just their very front teeth and it sounds like a typewriter? Well he does that. To us. Whenever we touch him. I looked it up and I guess it's a gesture of affection, trust, and family, and that dogs do it to groom their family members. But... uh, it's weird. And it can hurt sometimes.

Personally, it makes me nervous. After a few good pinches on his part (and a few good black and blue marks on me), I try to avoid it. Seven, on the other hand, LOVES it. She thinks it's hilarious. She'll laugh until she can barely breathe, which only gets Blue going even more.

I've heard her laughing in the other room before, and asked if Blue was nibbling again. She'd giggle out "yes!"

Sev started asking for goodnights from Blue. One night, she was in bed, and as I was tucking her in and saying goodnight, she asked for Blue. So I got him to hop up in her bed to say goodnight. She said, "Mom, can you get Blue to nipple me?" I was caught off guard. "What?" I asked her.
"Nipples. I want some nipples from Blue."

So now we have yet another weird term in this household: nippling.
Used in a sentence: "Blue is nippling again."