Sunshine

Well the biggest Fife news this Fall is the new addition to our family. It all started one evening when we went to dinner at Coco Ichibanya, Japanese curry house. Our neighbor's "boy" bunny ended up dropping out a load of baby bunnies (that is a story in itself) and I was contemplating taking one. We stopped by the pet store on the way home from dinner to look at bunny cages. The kids ended up spying a puppy, immediately took to her, and named her sunshine. My husband (while my back was turned) got the clerk to get her out and let the kids hold her. They were immediately in love. Then he held her for a while...long enough to seal the deal. He tried to get everyone in the car to leave and the kids all cried. Not "we want a pet" but "we want to take Sunshine home, why can't we have Sunshine?" Tyler...barely four that week, said to me "Mom, let me help you make your decision, I will take a plastic bag out back and pick up her poop." Let me tell you he has yet to do so! Anyway, I glared at Kurt, Kurt looked at me and we decided to pray about it. Just as he was about to say that we didn't have enough yen (those Japanese people do NOT give away their animals) we saw the American Express sign above the door. I guess we took that as a sign, because three days later after her "new puppy" shots, she was at home with us. Kurt gets up with her at night and I do the day duty (his punishment for getting her out of the cage in the first place). Actually I have horrific insomnia and if I get up with her, it is two hours before I can get back to sleep...was like that with my kids too. Anyway, she is a smart pup and can already "sit" and respond to her name at two-months old. I think she will be easily trainable...except for potty training. Oh, by the way, she is an English Cream daschaund (notoriously difficult to potty train). If we can make it through the nighttime potty training...she will be a part of the family for a long time.