Lonely

We are missing Randle around here.  It is especially very quiet when Daddy is at work and Trevor is in school.  Randle's usual morning spot is now unoccupied :(

But he is showing himself to us in many ways.  Not sure if we said but when we came home from putting him down, Ashley was still sleeping in her crib so we looked at the monitor and it sure looked like Randle was in her crib with her.  So much so even Brian had to take a look and agreed.  It was kind of creepy!  

Well, the same thing happened one morning last week.  Mommy looked at the monitor and at first glance it looked like Randle was curled up next to her.  She thought maybe it was just her pink cow lovey but nope, that wasn't in the crib with her.  Hi Randle!

 

One day Ashley and Mommy were at Target and Sara was walking by the pet care section wondering if we should buy some toys to donate to the humane society and she looked up and swore she saw Randle!  

Trevor often says 'I miss Randle' and rubs his eyes and wants a hug.  We ask him what he misses and he doesn't say anything so we're not entirely sure he knows what misses means but nonetheless we try to acknowledge his feelings and talk about one thing Mommy and Daddy miss about Randle.  

Although she didn't want Randle to die to feel this way, Mommy is enjoying her new freedom to come and go from the house as needed.  Before it was a challenge and a bit of a stress to leave because it meant getting Randle in the kennel.  It's nice to not have to worry about that and it's nice knowing there are no kennels in Heaven so Randle doesn't have to fear that anymore either. 

And one other thing, now we feel really bad his picture wasn't included in our 2012 Christmas card :(  But we think he's done one better.  Look for his picture in Petsmart's upcoming circular.   On the Friday Sara and kids came home, Brian was able to cross one thing off Randle's bucket list....being an advertising super star!  The Petsmart creative team took one pic of Randle and the lights freaked him out so we weren't sure it turned out.  But we got a sneak peek of the image and it turned out pretty good!  Long live Randle! (As soon as we can share a picture of the advertisement we will)