Just remembering...
- the instant we saw her for the first time and just knew
- the trip home in the dark with our puppy in her crate
- when she was so tiny she could crawl underneath the passenger seat between the front and back
- how she liked to lie by my feet and let the air conditioning blow on her while she tugged at my shoelaces
- how her first tiny collar was still too big and had to be rubberbanded to hold the end down
- watching her step on grass for the first time and try to figure out what it was
- having her sleep on my tummy as I finally got some sleep on the sofa
- sneaking her into bed one morning when she was tiny
- how worried I was when she stopped eating and lost a quarter of her puppy weight
- and coaxing her into eating by dropping pieces of toast smeared with peanut butter or "accidentally" letting Cheerios fall on the floor
- how quickly she learned to sit and lie down
- how it took ages for her to learn not to come upstairs
- potty breaks on rainy Spring nights huddled under the incense cedar where it was always dry
- those sweet pink paws and round baby tummy
- watching her grow cinnamon-colored eyelashes
- how she teethed on metal objects--shovels, trowels, picks--and left our shoes alone
- the days of blogging with a sleepy puppy on my lap.
Lord grant us many more years with her.
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