Our little CoCo puff!

We have officially lost our minds!!!!!

Last Saturday, Aiden had a basketball game at 8:20 AM. After the game we decided to go grab some brunch. We went to a place that just to happens to be in the same plaza as the petstore. We told the kids if they were good and ate well we would go see the puppies.

I have been discussing with Chris the reasons that I think now would be a good time to get a new puppy. Although it was not in the plans for this Saturday's pet store visit! Our Casey is now 13 years old and she is noticibly aging. My Mom told me the best thing she did was get her second dog when the first one was starting to get older. I also plan on re carpeting the house, so why not get the potty training done on the old carpet....these were a few of my selling points to Chris who was not going for it.....(at all may I add!)

Sooooo, we go see the puppies and the store just opened so the sales person asks if we went to play with any of them she will take one out. We pick out a cute little Lhasa Apso brown ball of fur, and her little roomate, a jack russel. The jack russel was a wild little thing and they were playing and acting crazy. The sales person mentioned that the little brown puff normally isn't wild, the jack russel is the one that is hyper so we take him away to play with just her....and a connection started. She also mentioned that she won't shed which was like the angels singing after dealing with Husky fur for 13 years! The kids enjoyed her, I enjoyed her and I think Chris even enjoyed her....so I gave Chris "the look" and he said "NO." I said well maybe we can talk about it. We left and I kept thinking about her and was trying to decide if I wanted to take on a puppy right now.

Chris and Aiden went to run errands later that day and Ava and I took a nap. When I got up, Aiden came walking in holding the dog!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was super surprised! Chris caved and went to get her. Apparently it was Aiden's idea to surprise me with her. He said we had 48 hours as we wanted to make sure that she and Casey were going to get a long. So far they are getting along just fine. Actaully, I think they are enjoying each other.

We named our puppy CoCo, she was born on Oct 2, 2009 so she is about 4 months old. We keep her in her kennel at night and she sleeps all night (something our kids still can't do for us!) and I decided to keep her in the laundry room while we are at work so she has a little more room to move around. So far she has been doing great. I just need to get over my guilt of leaving her during the day. I want to keep her out as much as possible to run around the house but until she is house broken I need to stick to keeping her in the laundry room unless she goes potty and I feel confident that she isn't going to go in the house. It's pretty cold right now so that part sucks! Although, I do like that the snow lets me know if she went or not because she is so small I can't tell if she is squatting or sitting! LOL!

The kids and I are taking her on her first vet visit tonight. :-)