Big Puppy

After a post a while back, when I mentioned that Luke would like a dog, I may have led some of you to believe that we were considering getting a dog. And just to be clear-We are not considering getting a dog.

I would love a dog, but I know that at this point of my life I could not handle a dog or give it the love and attention it deserves. Dan says he will NEVER support my decision to get one either. So I must wait until the kids are grown up and I need another baby.

Dan, in fact, has conditioned Ava to the fact that we will never have a dog. It kind of breaks my heart because both her and Luke love animals. One day, after picking her up from the Child Watch at the YMCA, she related a conversation she had with one of the workers there. She told me that the woman asked if she (Ava) had a dog at home. I asked Ava what she said and her reply was, "I told her we don't have a dog, cause dogs poop."

Can you hear Dan's work? I can.

"Where did you learn that, Ava?" I asked.

"Fwom Dad." she said.

So bless her creative little heart. Yesterday she started pretending that this cow statue was her "big puppy". I kept slipping and calling it a cow and she would insist that it was not a cow it was her big puppy.




She has been carrying it around everywhere.

I thought she might forget about it overnight, but this morning he accompanied her for breakfast.


And while I was snapping this picture, Luke the Trash Bandit, recovered this banana peel from the garbage and took off!



And because I already had the camera turned on, I caught him in the act.


Really, I could not handle a puppy right now. Or maybe it's more like I could not handle ANOTHER puppy right now!