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KODA
Here's a picture of Koda from this weekend. When we went to Arizona in March, Becki weighed Koda and he was around 60 pounds. Ever since, I've been weighing him once or twice per month, and he seemingly stopped growing somewhere around 62.5 lbs. I've heard that big dogs grow well through their second year, so knew he was supposed to continue growing but just hadn't seen it- until tonight.

It's quite the sight. First, I step on the scale. It's an electronic scale, so you have to tap your toe on it then wait a few seconds, then hop on it when it says "0." So it makes it a bit tricky when trying to hop up then pick up Koda. Luckily, he's a sweetie and never really squirms when I pick him up, instead just hangs there patiently for a good 12 seconds with his 4 big paws dangling in the air. And the 12 seconds feel like 3 minutes, I tell you. I really need to take a short video of this sometime, as I'm sure I look rediculous.

Anyway, I knew he'd been growing taller lately. Everyone we've seen in the past few weeks (Becki, Jennifer, Cara and Justin) have all seen Koda throughout his various stages over the past year and all said, "Oh my goodness- he's getting bigger!" on seperate occasions.

So I tapped my toe on the scale, waited the necessary 5 seconds and hopped on. Only this time, instead of dangling paws, they were actually grazing the floor. Uh-oh. It turns out that seemingly overnight, Clifford Koda has gone from eternally 62.5 to suddenly weighing nearly 70 lbs.