Puppy Parenting

For those of you who needed a puppy picture break, I hope you enjoyed the last few days! For those of you going through puppy picture withdrawal, today is your day!

Today marks a week since Miss Lexi Grae moved in with us, and what a week it has been! We have fallen head over heels in love with this sweet little furball munchkin, and we have been working diligently to train her well from the very beginning. She makes us laugh so much!! 

Lest you think I'm one of those puppy moms who thinks her baby can do no wrong...we definitely have to do some redirection with her when she gets too energetic and starts teething on us. LOL!! But she is a good and smart baby and we do love her!!! And now...some photos for you.

When she sleeps on the living room rug, she always has to tuck herself away under the coffee table. She can't actually fit under it, so she just sticks her head under and snoozes. (She probably only has a few more days when even that much can fit under.)

Leash training lessons!!! The first time we put the leash on her, she ate it. So we have definitely made progress since then! We are excited to take her on our favorite walking paths, so we are hoping she fully picks up this skill quickly!

Toys. Blankets. Naps. Repeat.

Ryan went to the gym one night, so she sat with me...zoned out.

All tuckered out at night. 

All tuckered out in the morning. She's actually sleeping like a champ at night. For the first five days, she went to bed around midnight and got up at seven every single night with no issue. Saturday night we let her nap too long before bed (rookie mistake) and she did have trouble going to sleep - and was up for a bit in the night. I laid on the floor next to her bed for about 40 minutes and got her calmed back down. So really, this picture is just a normal day for me, dog or not.

Learning to find her food in the toy.

When you can see the treats but not reach them...

She LOVES her some Ryan. (Don't blame her.)

Melting me.

Laying hands on me in prayer? Not sure.

All the toys. (She goes and gets them from the toybox if she can't find the one she wants.)

Learning to like her bed in the daytime.

She and Braeya are still working on the whole relationship thing. Yesterday was a very good day. They were both brave. They sat close like this for a while with no issue!

Ryan is amazing on training. 

I'm better with the snuggles. (But I promise I do my part with the training!)

And for the road...look how big she is since we first met her in December!

And so we head into week two, with high hopes of fun with our girl!! Happy Monday, everyone!