Three states later, here we are just me and Syd sitting on the couch on a Friday evening he is curled up quietly in a little ball on my left side fast asleep. It's incredible how so much has changed over the last few years and how he has mellowed out. Syd turned five in August and although people still ask me if he's two at the dog park when he's hopping around I can tell he's starting to slow down. I never thought I would see the day where I had to pry him out of bed at 5:30 AM. for his morning walk. Can't believe my baby is in his thirties and he's starting to gray! Three states later we ended up in the District of Columbia. Syd was born in Florida, grew up in South Carolina and moved with me to Fredericksburg to live at home for a year. The last two years we have been living in DC. When we first moved up here we were living in Van Ness with my college roommate, the three of us in a 700 square foot apartment with one bedroom. Technically you weren't supposed to have dogs, but I got a special note saying Sydney was a "Service Animal" and I needed him for anxiety. I would get stares in the hallways of this nice apartment building with people trying to figure out what was wrong with me and why I was allowed to have a big dog. Van Ness was great while it lasted, but two girls and a large dog in a tiny shoebox of an apartment got old VERY quick. In August of 2012 we finally moved into our row house in Shaw. We have gotten very comfortable here as you can see Syd above in our kitchen waiting for his dinner. I love it here! Its quiet, there's plenty of space for Syd to romp around in the house, there are three dog parks nearby and plenty of patches of grass!
Its been a good run so far, but New York City is next in the cards. It will be interesting to see how an easily stimulated Syd does in a somewhat overwhelming city.
