Friday, October 28, 2005

Benjamin comes to the table

One more breakfast topic blog.  Breakfast is a high point in the day for all of us.  I eat my cheerios and O.J. and share a banana with the boys.  Well, most often the boys are curled up on their doggie bed nearby until the banana cracks open but sometimes, Ben will come sit at the table.  That’s right, he’ll pull up a chair of his own just across from mine.  It is a pretty funny sight because the kitchen chair seat cushions are coated with Teflon so as to repel pet hair.  Well, just like with cooking, Teflon is slippery which is why it repels the hair.  In this case, sometimes it repels the dog.  Benjamin will sit on the chair (waiting for the banana) but as he waits, he is constantly sliding out the back of the chair so he must readjust and scoot towards the front of the chair where he will start the slide all over again.  It sort of looks like he is a child playing on a mini “people mover”.  You know, those things that help you get through the airport quicker.  He slides back and scoots forward.  Rinse & repeat.  (Well, he doesn’t really rinse.  He just repeats.)  I am waiting for the day that he actually falls out of the chair.  So far he has proven to be a pug with good balance.  As per usual, though, Henry, the smarter and more patient of the two, lingers on the doggie bed until the banana is peeled and then he moseys over to hang around for his few bites.