More on Thing 4

OK . . . I was catching up on some bleading tonight (blog reading - duh!??) and saw this on Creative Momma's site. I am nothing if not a sucker for a cute cocker spaniel, so I thought I'd dig deep into the PC archives to find some goodies.

In March of 2003 I went home for spring break to visit my mom and dad. Paul wasn't able to get the time off work, but since I was a teacher I had a week off. We drove down to visit my uncle for lunch one day, and to see his new litter of puppies. He'd bred one of his two cocker spaniels, and he had the litter at home. He graciously offered me one of the pups.

I fell head over heels in love.

Instantly.

I soon e-mailed Paul, back at home, this picture.

And a short time later . . . I was the owner of this.

We named him Rudy, after our very, very favourite all time movie about a football player from Notre Dame.

He was our first baby. He had just turned one when we had Thing 1 in March of 2004.

As a matter of fact, he was there when I gave birth to him.

He got cuter and cuter.

And although we love him to death, he has caused us some angst over time.

But we love that little guy more than anything and he is our true Thing 4, and will always be one of the gang here. Thanks for putting up with us buddy!! Here he is last week sporting a new short summer haircut.