Baking, Building, and Chewing!

Our dear, sweet, darling puppy has turned into a chewing monster! He chews on EVERYTHING he can get his mouth on! He is also a scaredy cat, or was, until he finally learned that he can jump on & off our bed & our couch (he used to only do it on accident, not realizing what he had done, until he had to get down, then he would bark at us until we put him down). We helped him along, throwing toys up on the couch & bed, then down so that he would stop thinking "I can't do this! It's too high!" We were so excited about his newly found ability to jump up and down (and he was very excited too)! Well, I was excited, until this morning.
Well our sweet puppy who always stays in bed with me when I nap or go back to bed for a bit after taking him out to pee, decided that today he would use his new talent and jump off the bed, and not get back on. I tried to keep him on by using a tennis ball, his favorite toy, to keep him with me. He took the tennis ball to floor to chew on. Well, me being the smart puppy mommy I am, got out of bed, thinking I was thinking ahead and picked everything up off the floor i thought he'd chew on, thinking he couldn't get to it, thinking he'd be too scared to climb or jump, thinking he'd fall asleep as he often does. I feel asleep to him quietly chewing on his tennis ball; so innocent. And woke up to him chewing on cardboard. Then I realized, not only had he eaten cardboard, but he had also eaten my cell phone charger, some puzzle holder thing of Lucas', puzzle pieces, and my favorite stuffed elephant (it was the only thing he didn't get ruined). Lucky for Levi, though our cell phone chargers were plugged in, our plugs are controlled by a switch, that thankfully was turned off, because, he pulled the charger out of the socket (had we ever mentioned that Levi loves to pull plugs out of their sockets?!) and chewed in into at least 7 pieces, some of which I'm sure are digesting in his stomach at this point! I was soo mad! I yelled at him "Look what you did Levi!" and he stopped chewing on the previously mentioned cardboard, and looked like he was going to cry. He looked around at what he had done, and lowered his head. So I picked up his mess, and you might be wondering what baking and building has to do with chewing?
Well, to cool off, I ate a piece of this



that I baked Thursday night while Lucas put together this



and this



together; which we are very very excited about! Now we no longer have to keep some of our clothes in the boxes we haven't gotten rid of yet, even though we've been married over 2 months!
Now I just have to remember our dog is still this dog



and buy a new cell phone charger.

And just for your entertainment here a few photos of Lucas (and Levi) working our putting together our new nightstand and dresser:

















Yay for my husband building our new furniture. i love him so. Now I must do our massive amount of dishes before my wonderful husband gets home!