We have a new dog!!!

Yes, we have a new dog. She is a mixed breed about 4 years old, give or take a week. She has beautiful dark brown hair and chocolaty brown eyes. She is gorgeous. Her name is Ember.

Yeap, you heard right. Ember. Ember decided on Monday that she was going to be a dog "forever". Actually, she said that she wanted to be a pony forever...and then changed her mind to a dog. Cute, the first day. The girl hasn't given it up!

She runs around on all four "legs" whenever possible. Knees and hands in the house, feet (which is silly to watch) and hands when getting into the van or going outside. She crawls up onto her chair to eat, crawls out of the van (which takes a good bit of time), and had even made a dog bed on the floor of her room. Of course, she had to sleep in said dog house on Tuesday, but has since decided that her bed is a bit more comfortable.

She does eat the right way...but before every meal she reassures us that, yes, dogs like yogurt, they also like lemon flavored cookies and peanut M&M's.

I gave up trying to reason with her and have just gone along with it. However, she has to turn back into a girl whenever we go out, but that doesn't always work. Her animal instincts took over today in the doctor's office. Makes for an interesting conversation starter.

I have tried telling her that dogs don't have birthday parties. (Her birthday is next week.) But she is pretty sure they do. I told her dogs would get bones and chew toys. She is pretty sure that dogs would also like ponies and other toys too.

Well, the good news is, she is house broken, doesn't chew on things, and doesn't lick faces.