The dog ate my homework

... would be a sentence that could be very well used in our house right now and the Ls would totally get away with it because it's so 100% believable. Luckily they don't have homework yet and god help me if he still eats the entire house by the time they do have some ...
I called him the energizer bunny a little while ago; I take that back ... he is like an energizer bunny on steroids.

If you would like to know how it is to lose a pair of brand new slippers every day, have your furniture chewed apart, every piece of clothing be the object of your dogs LOVING affection and get a run-by-licking while he chases the poor cat for the 100th time through the house, be my guest ... literally.
Currently he is trying to hide his half-eaten "Chewnola" (what a clever name) between my couch pillows. Yesterday I found it under my comforter after it had been hidden in the garden for a few hours during the rain .... what a muddy surprise.  It's supposed to give your dog hours of fun and distraction ... it's more like 15 minutes for Eddie.
I wonder if there is such a thing as puppy-shake syndrome? He shakes his head so violently when he tries to tear the slippers apart, it's like a washing machine on the super-spin circle. That can't be healthy. Maybe this is the reason why he still fights with his leash every time we take him for a walk. He looks like he is fighting a huge boa constrictor every time we put that thing on.

On my shopping list for today were "No More Marking" stain and oder remover with natural repellent, "Puppy Aid" which "trains" puppies where to urinate and "Bitter Apple" a taste deterrent.  He LOVES the Bitter Apple! It must give the wood of the Ls rocking chairs a smoother taste. Here is another $10 completely wasted. But I may try the Puppy Aid on Lulu, maybe it'll help with the potty training which is not going so well so far.

Tonight was bath night. He was so stinky that when I sat in the car I could smell him all over my clothes. Half way though the bath (which was more a fight to keep him in the sink and soaked me from head to toe) I thought "hm ... this dog shampoo doesn't smell like Coconut at all, like it's supposed to? Strange!" then I realized that I used my Trader Joe's Vegetable wash instead. I am happy to say that my dog is now pesticide, wax and chemical free.

L has been such a good "puppy-buddy-helper" as she calls her new position. She feeds him (WAY too much), plays with him and walks him every day without complaining. She looks so cute when she walks him. He pulls her all the way around the block, imagine me walking a bull-mastiff  .... except for that Eddie is only10 lbs :) They are best buddies and she loves having him as HER puppy as she proclaims.

I make it sound worse than it is I guess. He is a really good, cute, little man. He has such a sweet face and nothing but love and ENERGY in him. We just had no clue what we were getting ourselves into when we said "lets keep this puppy". No clue at all!!!

It almost feels like when we added Lulu to the clan. We thought we have one child and do fine, how much more work can a second be. We realized how wrong we were about an hour after we got home from the hospital. The next 6 months were hell. Lillie was super good and besides hating me for the next two weeks after we brought Lulu home and telling us "Lucy go home" every day she was quite a trooper. I told her we had a $100 copy for the delivery so we had to keep her. Lulu was the easiest baby, except for the reflux issue, the part where she'd scream bloody hell every time we strapped her into the car seat and the nursing issue which turned into a bottle feeding issue. You had to sit a certain way, she had to be held a certain way, the bottle had to be held a certain way and she always preferred Patrick to bottle feed her which was a huge issue since he had to go to work EVEY day and I was left with a hungry, screaming, acid reflux pain stricken baby and her little sister who now hated me.

Now we are right back to this point but we have been there... done that and survived it before. This too shall pass. At the end of the day we have two happy little girls and a cute and hopefully soon tired little puppy to make us smile even though the rest of our current life and house is a complete chaos.