Farewell, Lucy...

Farewell, Lucy...

Lucy is fine. In fact, I'm sure she is loving every minute living on the farm with my parents. We are very sad to say that Miss Lucy and Rohan are not best friends and likely never will be. Lucy wasn't ever really a fan of kids and we had hoped that was just "a phase" or that she would get used to one if they were around all the time, but it turns out that she just got more nervous (and we in turn got more nervous). We decided that it was in her best interest to remove her from the situation that was making her SO uncomfortable and my parents graciously agreed to take her (THANK YOU Mom & Dad, you have no idea how relieved we are to have her with you!). We met my parents in Cedar Rapids, IA yesterday to hand over Lucy. We had lunch, they got to spend a couple of hours loving on Rohan and then we headed to a park to let the dogs run and give Lucy some love. We will definitely miss Lucy but we know that she is in a terrific home and that she will absolutely love it there!
The following are a bunch of pictures of Lucy over the years...we miss you already Belle!



Linus never was very good about being an only dog, so we knew that we would be getting another puppy. What we didn't know was when...well, we heard about some free puppies on Wednesday night and we've had a chocolate lab/German short hair/? (English Springer Spaniel?) mix ever since:) He is a very gentle, calm puppy. We were really excited that at 10 weeks he had already been exposed to kids and did quite well with them. So far he has been very interested in Rohan and very gentle, he will walk up and kiss Ro, then lay down next to him during tummy time. We are getting used to a new puppy in the house, how quickly you forget about the messes, sharp teeth, etc that a puppy brings:) As of right now, the puppy is still nameless. All suggestions are welcome!
Here are a few pictures of the puppies first days with us and a few from our fist with my parents when we met up to drop Lucy off. We took all the dogs with so my parents could meet the new grandpuppy and took them all for a walk at a park in Cedar Rapids. Mom was excited that she could do some Rohan/frontpack time, something she did a ton of with us kids, we're pretty sure Rohan enjoyed it too!