Saturday, Sunday, Monday

Saturday- A fun evening at the Murdocks' home- bbq, Superman movie, and great company.  Pippin and Daphne did much better with each other tonight.  Everywhere that Daphne went, she had a teeny little shadow tromping along after her.  It was fun to watch Pippin's reluctance to step from carpeting to linoleum to go say hi to Stacey.  Linoleum is scary and slippery!  Eventually, he braved up and got used to it.  Corinna played a lot with him and is doing better and better at re-directing his jumping and puppy nipping.  We still teaching her how to carry him so he's more supported- not with one arm under his neck and another under his belly.  However, Pip is very patient and they're both teaching each other.

Later that night, when he and Stacey got together, he got to playing  and gave him a mo hawk with his fluffy upper layer of fur.  If you look at Pippin's head from the back with the light shining in front of him, sometimes that upper layer looks like feathers.

Sunday was hot, hot, hot.  Pip pretty much followed our lead and just tried to stay cool.  He'd wake up just enough to blink a few times, sigh, yawn, and go back to sleep. He seemed to save all his energy up for the evening when he let loose with some rambunctious playing.  Early morning and mid evening seem to be his peak times right now.   He's doing really well at letting us know when he needs to go out and rarely has an accident.  The only times there's an "oops" is if we don't pick up on his signals.

Monday night was great!  I'm kicking myself for forgetting to take pictures.  I asked an awesome family in our ward- the Petersons- to come over with their kids- a 3 year old boy and a 2 year old girl, to help us get Pip used to young children.  Luckily, they're "dog people" and were excited to come over.  When they got here, I gave them treats to help with the puppy's training.  It was fun to give a treat to the sweet little girl and watch her hold it out to Pippin, say "sit" and let him eat it just standing there.  Their son got him to sit and lay down.  (I haven't gotten Pip to roll over yet.)

Since I didn't know how long the puppy would be interesting to the kids, I made a "Growing Up" game- 40 pictures of various animals when they're young, and others of when they were grown up.  We played it up to the table and tried to find matches.  I'd made one match "baby boy" and "man."  Paul suggested we do pictures of them, so he went onto Jennie's Facebook page and downloaded pictures of the son and daughter when they were babies, and Jennie and Paul (the dad) as adults. (He said he felt like a stalker doing it, but it was for a good cause:O) It was really  fun when Paul (our guest) turned over his first card, and it was his very own face.  After the game, the kids colored while we talked, then we went to the garden and picked a carrot from the garden for everyone, and then finished up the night watching a couple episodes of Kid History.  It was a fun night.

Pip did really well, though he did like to jump up on their daughter a little.  On his hind legs, he was almost as tall as she was.  At one point when she sat down on the floor and he came over to play with her, she looked at him and said, "My shoes."  Apparently, Pippin needed reminding that just because they were touching the floor, they were not his to chew on.