Meet Luna

Well call us crazy, go ahead everybody else has, but we have a new puppy.  After the unexpected loss of our sweet Sienna we started talking about when we wanted to get another one.  We quickly found our house and heart were missing a little four legged something and decided now was as good a time as any.  We started looking in April thinking the longer we had her the better it would be when Aaron came.  Well we were unsuccessful at finding one that was ready to go home in April.  In all honesty, I think it is better this way since I am home and can focus on her.  But, we did find a litter of silver labs that had just been born and would be ready to go home in June.  As we continued to search this seemed like our best option.  After they were born we put a deposit down on the first pick of a silver female.  The breeder was very good about sending us current photos of the puppies, no mistake on her part, that we continued to fall in love with.  In mid May we drove about an hour away to see all the puppies and pick out the baby we would bring home with us in a month. 

As we sat there trying to decide which one we wanted to bring home, we got the WHOLE story on the breeder and her life.  When we finally decided, it was time to say good-bye for 4 more weeks.  This was hard because we quickly fell in love and were ready to bring her home.  As I said before it was good that we had those four weeks because we were both able to wrap up grad school and I finished work.  Finally it was time to go pick up our little baby and bring her home.  Last Saturday morning we woke up and got ourselves together fairly early so we could drive down to Texas City and pick her up.  When we got there she was sitting on the porch waiting for us.  After we got the low down from the breeder we were excited to take her and get her in our arms.  The ride home was an adventure, we had brought a laundry basket to put her in and contain her.  Well luckily I sat in the back with her because she was tiny, 4.8 pounds, and we quickly figured out could jump out of the basket.  So, I played with her and tried to contain her for awhile and then she passed out about half way home.  We had already called the vet and made an appointment to get her checked out and were going to take her on Monday.  The weekend was fun to play with her and get to know her personality.  She played hard and slept hard.

We had Kona and Sydney with us so she has had fun playing with them.

She took a nap with mommy.

Slept on Megan

Overall the weekend was a success.  The first night she slept in the bathtub because we wanted to be able to contain the cleanup if there were some bathroom accidents.  There was a little bit of whimpering but not too bad overall.  We actually made it through the night with no accidents in the tub, with mommy and daddy taking her out several times.  I considered both of these things a great success considering what it could have been.  On Monday I took her to the vet to have her checked out, and I am glad I did.  When we picked her up we had noticed there was some thinning of the fur on her head and she had some flea bites.  After much time and research the vet established she had some internal parasites and then something funky going on with her skin.  So, 3 medications later, we left the vet.  Despite all of the exam, medicine and everything else she is the happiest puppy.  Although she had all of this going on inside, she was always playful and super sweet.  Every day has gotten better and better, and I sure have enjoyed spending time with her during the day.  As Jon says, daddy gets the crazy playful puppy and mommy gets the sweet sleepy puppy.

There is our sweet Luna!