Update on the Portuguese...

The boys are still completely fascinated by Blayne- they constantly want to be near her and know what she is doing. Monte is definitely the "nanny". He watches over her without getting too close. He also makes sure that when Mulligan is out of control that he does not have access to her. If she and I are on the bed -for example-, Monte will lay at the foot of the bed and growl and bark at Mulligan to keep him from jumping up. The other day he went as far as standing on the landing and not letting him up the stairs!

Mulligan, on the other hand, is the "over-interested big brother". He constantly wants to sniff her and play with her. He is very gentle about it though (quite different from his role of "annoying little brother" when playing with Monte).

Mulligan has also recently adopted the role of the "night watchman"- he gets up with me in the middle of the night to feed Blayne...the only problem is for some reason, at this hour, he wants to sit on her. This is very difficult for me as I am not a morning person (nor a middle of the night one) to stay lucid enough to feed the baby and at the same time fend off a 55lb dog.

Blayne is becoming more and more interested in the Portuguese as well, often staring at them for long periods of time (of course she does this at the wall too, so who knows ;-). Despite her growing interest in the boys, however, her heart still belongs to the pineapple man.