it finally happened...i caught Grace..
she slipped...

we were at the beach with kirkham. it was pretty hot and kirkham was running around a bit. he was breathing hard like a husky kid. so grace pulls stop out a water bottle and starts to pour some  into her cupped hand. and kirkham starts to drink the water from her cupped hand. she does this one more time....and i just laugh and give her a hard time because she loves doing motherly things with kirkham. so then grace starts to pour maybe the 4th handfull of water and she says "babe, do you want some more water?"

SLIP....i ask her "did you just call him babe?"
she was scared and told me something like "hm, i was talking to you"  lol
"soooooooooooooooo.  you want me to drink water out of your cupped hand?"

"ok, oops"
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kirkham has been more friendly as of late. he won't bark as much when friends or family come over. however, he still growls/barks at dogs when we walk by them. grace and i are convinced that he secretly calls other dogs ugly as we walk by...

so we think as we walk by another dog...the other dog says "hello there" and kirkham passively says "you're ugly"....and then the growls/barking starts