Once Upon a Carter: The newest addition to our family.....

Alright, I'm finally getting up the nerve to post about our new addition. I'm sure some of you will think oh how cute...congratulations, but anyone who knows us, knows that we don't have a very good track record with dogs. I'm not the most patient person in the world, so me and dogs don't mesh very well especially when it comes to training them and I'm usually the one that ends up doing all of it. I have enough problems raising my own kids and bringing a dog into the family doesn't make it any easier on me, but I decided that since I'm officially a stay at home mom and the kids are a little older and they can help out a little with him maybe we could do this . So I gave in, but on one condition that we would get a dog that I could stand which meant it had to be cute and fluffy and small nothing over 10 lbs!

So we found our dog and we went with a boy (even though I'm still outnumbered), I read that male dogs are a little easier to handle, not as independent as females and they don't have as much attitude as a female and Lord knows we don't need anymore attitude in this house. Our son has enough for everyone!

He is a shih tzu and we haven't quite decided on a name, we started out with Gizmo then went to Ozzie, but have started calling him Gizmo again. He's 10 wks old and so far doing really good, he sleeps in a crate and he seems to like it. He's pretty calm right now, even though I know that will change. The kids are already getting attached to him, I heard Drew singing a lullabye to him and Dylan gets up every morning and plays with him before school. He's even taking him out to go to the bathroom!

Anyway, I'm waiting on my phone call from my mom to gripe me out..but oh well it's done and we have a dog. I'm just hoping I have the patience to be a good owner and patience to handle my youngest child with him(he loves to carry him all the time)! Wish us luck!!!!!