Recently Stuart and I thought that it would be a good time for us now to have a doggie.  Thus on Easter, while the boys were at Rohan’s birthday party, we went to check out the city shelter.  We looked around the dogs there that were available for adoption, and learned about their website for searching.  While we walked around some more to the courtyard, we saw a cute black puppy being moved from one room to another by a staff.  Both Stuart and I thought that he was adorable, but understood that he was not one to be adopted.  After that visit, we went ahead and ordered a crate online so that we could be ready whenever we found a dog to adopt.

     Then on Friday, as Stuart and I were driving to the mall, I checked out the shelter website and saw a new addition.  Based on the small picture and the description, we figured he might be the pup we saw and liked during our first visit.  Actually on that day, we did not feel mentally ready to adopt, but we finally decided that we should at least check him out.  So after lunch we arrived at the shelter and we saw him; he was being visited by an interesting party.  When it was finally our turn to meet him, we were tight with time.  “Versace”, his given name at the shelter, was very cute and quite energetic as expected.  Since we had to leave to pick up the boys, we had to take a chance and say bye to Versace.

    We picked up the boys and returned to the shelter as quickly as we could.  All of us tried not to get too excited as we knew that it was possible that Versace would be adopted.  While we waited for our number being called, I was very nervous and finally relieved when we found out Versace was still available.  The counselor told us that we were lucky as there were 3 families who met him while we were gone and they were just not quite ready to adopt yet.  The boys liked the puppy too which was great as Stuart and I had already made up our mind to take him home.  As the counselor put a new leash on him for us, there was a man who was next to see him and told us that he was disappointed.  Our drive home was smooth; Buddy stayed in the back nicely.  The special thing about this drive home was that Logan got to sit in the front seat for the first time as I wanted to be on the second row to be near our new pup.  Logan definitely enjoyed this special ride.

   Taking a puppy home on the first day reminded us how we felt with Logan coming home after birth; we were nervous and it was tiring.  Stuart went out to buy the doggie essential while the three of us played with him in the backyard.  We also had to puppy-ready the house and put together the crate which happened to arrive on that day too.  At dinner time, we were still considering the name Boo the boys came up with, then suddenly we came up with the name Buddy and we all voted for it.  There it is, our new addition to the family, Buddy Brown!