Hocks A to Z- N is for New Member!

        

Hello everyone, Anna here! Welcome to this weeks A to Z post! This week we are on the letter N which we have decided to use as an opportunity to update you on the Newest Member of The Hocks, our puppy Milo!

We have had Milo exactly 9 weeks today and my, has he grown in those 9 weeks!.. 

                        

The first picture was taken on the day we brought Milo home and the second was taken only a few days ago. As you can see, he's growing very nicely and is still just as beautiful as ever!

Milo has settled into our family wonderfully. He is loving, cuddly, caring and has the funniest little personality! He genuinely sulks if you tell him no! He lies on the floor, takes a deep sigh then looks up at you with those big puppy eyes to try and make you feel guilty for saying no to him, and boy does it work!! Little monkey he is!

Milo has been attending puppy classes and is picking up all his training really well, in fact, they use him a lot to demonstrate with as he is so good as doing what they tell him to do! Milo does still jump up and get very over excited (he does settle back down after about 5 minutes though) when new people arrive at the house which the trainer have said is very normal and he should grow out of. It can be frustrating though so if any fellow doggy owners have any tips on how to nip this in the bud we would love to hear your advice!

Milo is doing great with house training and we rarely have any accidents in the house any more and he sleeps all night brilliantly without any problems. He has also started to lose his baby teeth now!

I can safely say we are all very very much in love with the new member of our family and are so happy we bit the bullet and got him. It took Rosie and I a long time to get Allan to agree to have a dog and he was really unsure as he was never a huge dog lover before. But now we have Milo, Allan wouldn't be without him. He loves him just as much as Rosie and I do, we knew he would :) ! 

The best thing about Milo (apart from the obvious fact that we get to look at that gorgeous little face regularly!) is the unconditional love we receive from him. He adores us just as much as we adore him.. And then some! It is such a lovely start to the day when you come downstairs to his happy little face and wagging tail obviously so happy to see us. He regularly comes onto our knees for big cuddles and kisses! 

Rosie has been unwell the past few weeks with a nasty case of croup which then turned into an awful chest and throat infection. Milo showed her lots of love and protection and regularly snuggled up on the sofa with her to try and look after her, it was so lovely to see that he cares about her so much..

       

So as you can see, Milo is doing brilliantly at the moment and we are enjoying him very very much! As I said before, if any fellow doggy owners have any life saving tips on puppy training we would love to hear your advice!

We will end this post with some more pictures of our gorgeous boy!..

                                    

                                    

                                    

                                      

                                    

                                    

                             

        

        

              

    

    

Hocks Reality Check

Hey Everyone and welcome to the latest in this series where we review the Weekends reality television. Before we start we want to apologize for the lack of blogging in the last few weeks, this has been due to a number of different issues all relating to members of the family being ill. 

So Lets first discuss Celebrity Big Brother and the fact that James won the series. 

The Hocks have not enjoyed this series, so much so that not a single episode was watched by any of us after the launch night. the American contestants were rubbish and the the British ones were brought down by them. 

So lets move onto the +XFactorUK 2015 And this weekend saw the culmination of this years Bootcamp. 

The biggest talking point was the fact that Nick Grimshaw, One of the 4 Judges was not part of the process for the last part of boot camp and then was not part of the process for whitling down the contestants to 15 per category ready for next weeks 6 chair challenge. 

Why, if you were Simon Cowell would you accept this? it felt very wrong that at such an important stage in this process a key judge was missing. However, one positive this weekend was the performance of Rita Ora who for the first time since taking up the role really shined

Now the Big part of the weekend was the Launch of this years +Strictly Come Dancing 

Over Friday and Saturday night the contestants performed their first dances and The Hocks are really excited about this series and truly believe it could beat this years X Factor in ratings. 

The Hocks really like Tess and Claudia presenting it and the regular judges being back never gets boring. 

Anna is our Strictly expert and she believes that if Peter Andre tones down his slight over acting then he could be crowned this years winner. As always with strictly there's one who just makes you laugh when they dance and this year it has to be Ainsley Harriot. 

So that is that for this week, with Strictly clearly winning over the Hocks compared to X Factor

Tune in on Wednesday when Anna will be continuing our A to Z series with the Letter N, Which will include lots more cute pictures of the Newest member of the Hocks, Milo the Dog!