bye go beach

Dennis enjoyed some time running after the birds today on the beach, and he enjoyed a nice lunch out with Gigi and David and me. He tried to help us pack up everything (by unpacking it, of course), and he was asleep before we ever left Panama City Beach.

We had a terrifying event this morning. He climbed up into a chair at the table in the suite, and I was telling him to sit on his rear end and walking over to him as he stepped backward and fell off the chair. He hit his head on the tile floor (but his head didn't hit first--his back did). I panicked and ran to him, and he was crying and getting up. I picked him up to check him out and he threw up all over me several times. I wanted to immediately go to the emergency room, but David (the paramedic) assured me that this was fairly common and that he actually seemed fine. And he did. No personality change, no weirdness, just normal Dennis behavior after the fall. I'm still going to watch him closely, but everything seems okay.

He was really sweet on the car ride home, sleeping for half of it then singing Christmas carols with us for an hour. When he was really fussy, I handed him my ipod loaded up with Sesame Street podcasts, and he watched these for the remainder of the ride home. We would hear him say "Ernie" or "Elmo" and laugh loudly. He seemed glad to get home but began searching our house for Chloe immediately upon arrival. He cried hard when we put his pajamas on, and when I arrived back home after going to pick up the dog, he was asleep in bed with David. So he'll be sleeping with us tonight, but that's really what I wanted anyway!

We had a good trip, and as we were leaving the resort, Dennis turned to look at the beach and said "bye go beach" and waved to it.