Monday, June 18, 2007

The Pirate Queen

She is here! Our own little pirate, Ms. Grace O'Malley (Gracie for short). We wanted to give her a piratical name due to her adorable eye patch and Grace lived during one of my favorite periods of English history.

Whew, though.

Gracie, leave it. Leave it. Good girl. Go potty. Off. Good Gracie. Go potty. Good potty! Gracie, leave it. Leave it. Good girl. Go potty. Off. Good Gracie. Go potty. Good potty!

(I think you get the picture!). Man you can't leave your eyes from them for one second!!

She LOVES our yard and running in the grass. She has got these huge paws and legs that she hasn't grown into yet. She looks funny when she runs right now. And such a prancing puppy!


Squeek doesn't quite know what to think. Gracie obviously wants to play and Squeek keeps hissing at her when she is too close. At one point Squeek ran under the bed and Gracie wiggled her way under after her. Suddenly there is hissing, a thwap thwap and Gracie backs up at high speed. Since then she hasn't been getting in Squeek's grill too much. And Squeek keeps coming out into the living room to constantly check it out. All good things I think!

We can't quite believe that we finally have a dog around here. My hubby is taking some half days for the next week (parental leave and all!) to spend some time with her and start training.
Thank you for all the kind words and advice given the other day! We definately need to do some puppy proofing and will be getting some baby gates tomorrow. Apparently there were dryer sheets behind the washer that I had no clue were there!
Will keep you all updated!

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Checklist

Crate and X-Pen: Check


Training guides: Check


Toys: Check


Treat: Check


Collar and Leash: Check


Puppy: ~5:30 tomorrow!! Finally! We are mucho excited!

Poor Squeek doesn't realize these things aren't for her and she has no idea what is about to come into our house!


Happy Father's Day to all! I must go get ready as we are having my family over for a Father's Day BBQ. Our first to host!

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Yippee!!

Guess who we met tonight?! The darling little puppy we have been waiting 6 weeks for!! And then we were told we can consider her ours, and should get her in about a week. We haven't named her yet, but I can finally share some pictures!

She is a Beagle/Boxer mix, with the cutest freckled nose.




We are soooo excited and already love her like crazy. Her tail was wagging like a mad girl all the time we were holding her.

That little face was so worth the wait! Now I'm not sure if I am ready for puppy "stuff", but definitely am ready to have another addition to the family.