Rooney's Apology and Big Announcement

Hello all,

You may have noticed that the summer months seem to have rendered us MIA here on Doodle Kisses. Please accept my most sincere apologies for our absence.

This is me being sorry...

I promise you, if I had opposable thumbs and some basic knowledge of how to run a Mac (I'm more of a PC pup...) I would have gotten on here myself to offer a few updates. I mean for Pete's sake, how hard is it to take a break from running those kids around to and fro to offer a little support and post a few photos? Don't get me wrong, I do love those kids of mine but they sure do take up a lot of MY mom's time.

Anywhooo....

From what I can gather, the big news of the summer seems to be that I keep getting bigger. At least that is what I hear on a daily basis from not only friends of the family who apparently can't stop themselves from offering up rude comments like, "Rooney! You are positively HUGE!" (I mean, huge? Have they ever seen a Great Dane? An Irish Wolfhound? A Bull Mastiff? I am not "huge"). But even my own family members have taken to exclaiming almost every morning, "Good heavens, Rooney! Did you grow in the night??" How am I supposed to have an answer for that? Do I look like I have a measuring tape around my neck? Is there a scale in my crate that I haven't noticed? And what is with their obsession with size anyway? Anytime I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror, I can only think to ask myself, "Who on earth is that handsome devil?"

So, yeah, whatever... I guess I'm still growing. Yawn.

Moving onto topics that are actually slightly interesting, I am continuing to pursue excellence in The Beautiful Game in honor of my namesake. For those of you not consumed by European Football, I will explain: I am named for Wayne Rooney, the bad boy of Manchester United a premier British soccer team. Therefore I am doing all that I can to live up to both his well known devotion to the game of soccer, and his off-the-field edgy persona.