Here's Our Baby!

Charlie was born February 7, 2010. There were three in his litter, two sisters and then him. He was the runt of his batch and when John and I saw him, it was love at first site. When we got him he weighed 2.90 pounds. He now weighs 3.5 pounds and is growing every day.

CHARLIE WHEN HE IS 8 WEEKS OLD

John and I have wanted to get a dog for a long time now. We thought it would be smart to wait until we got home from our trip in March, so that way we could be home to train our new puppy and not have to leave him alone when he is so young. Literally the Saturday after we got home from our trip we set up a time to go and meet Charlie. Basically in a nutshell...John saw him on KSL, we called the family, went and saw him, and the next thing we knew, we were going to Walmart to buy our new puppy all the supplies he would need.

CHARLIE WHEN HE IS 12 WEEKS OLD! (AND SO READY TO BE GROOMED)

Having Charlie a part of our family has been so fun for everyone. He loves to play with kids, and he also loves his grandma's and grandpa's. He is super spoiled and gets to go everywhere with us. He is doing so good with potty training, and has only chewed up one thing in the whole house (my phone charger of course) He loves to play in the backyard and watch the birds as they hang out in the trees. He loves John so much. They like to play together and spend time together. The other night, he even watched the whole Jazz game with John. Charlie likes to go on walks. At first he didn't like the whole idea of wearing a leash, but as soon as we would have him chase John, he started to get used to it.

Raising Charlie has been what I would think a lot like raising a child. He sleeps during the day and stays up all night! He has to be taken to the bathroom about every two hours (except when we are gone, he has been very good about holding it), he always wants to play, he loves to cuddle, and constantly wants all the attention, he makes us happy and he makes us laugh. We are always having to keep an eye on him, you never know what he will get into.

Last weekend Charlie got very sick and I had to take him to the emergency vet at eleven at night. I was scared and worried he wasn't going to be okay. He recently got his second vaccinations, so we figured it was from that, but nothing was helping him. After a very expensive trip to the vet, I brought him home with a pulled muscle in his stomach and an allergic reaction to shots. Charlie was doing much better the next morning. Th vet said to only feed him soft foods for the next couple of days and now he doesn't want to eat his dog food because the canned stuff is his new favorite thing.

We love Charlie so much! He is been so much fun for us to have and a great way to prepare us for children.