introducing...BUSTER!! our new addition

So it happened, we finally caved and got a puppy. I have been craving one ever since we had to give Daisy away. You might be wondering, if you already gave one dog away, why would you get another one. Well, Daisy was a big girl and already set in her ways. She had been living in a big yard with another dog to keep her company. Moving her to the apartment was fair to her, and she didn't know how to act. She kept having accidents and was so sad.

We gave her to an awesome family that has been spoiling the crap out of her! She gets to go up the their cabin or camping like every weekend and loves her new little kid friend and the company of another dog. She's doing great.

We figured if we get a puppy, we can raise and train it to be an apartment dog. Puppies are more moldable! And he was free- which is even better.

So here he is! This is our new baby Buster!

Look at how huge his paws are! He is going to be huge!! Hopefully we'll be out of an apartment before he grows into those monstrous things.

This was taken the first day that we got him, his eyes look kind of sad- I think it was because he missed his mommy. He has cheered up since then though.

Nathan LOVES this dog. He has had so much fun with Buster and spoils him like crazy. On the first night that we had Buster in the apartment, he didn't want to sleep in his kennel and whining and barking, so Nathan let the dog come sleep on the bed between us. Daisy wasn't even allowed on the bed, and we kept her kennel in the other room. When we baby sat my sister's dog, Lilly, we kept her kennel in the front room. Buster's kennel is right next the dresser in our bedroom. Nathan must like, just a little. They play as soon as Nathan gets home, and Buster freaks out when Nathan leaves for work. "So this is love..."

Once Buster gets over the fact that Nathan has left him at home with the less fun female master, he becomes my shadow. He is always right at my feet, wherever I go.

Here's a habit that needs to be broken- he loves my flip flops, even when I am wearing them he tries to eat them off my feet! He likes Nathan's socks too- I think just because they smell like Nathan.

While I was trying to take pictures of him, he noticed the camera strap dangling from the side of the camera and promptly pounced on me. I have about 5 pictures like this one, trying to chew the strap off while I took pictures. Silly dog.

How could you not love that little face?! Doesn't he just look like a Buster?

We made the mistake of leaving the food bag out in the kitchen....

Trying to pretend that he's innocent.

In his defense, it was dinner time.

It's been quite an experience having a puppy at the apartment. Nathan and I decided to go out for ice cream last night, and we knew Buster would cry is we left him in his little kennel, so we thought it would be a good idea to kind of barricade him the kitchen by turning the coffee table on it's side. That way he more room to play and lounge around while we were gone for about 45 minutes. Good idea right? We thought so- until we got home from Cold Stone!

Buster had some how pushed the coffee table out, and squeeze his out the kitchen. We came home to find him up on the back of the couch barking his little head off. We didn't even know he could jump high enough to get on the couch at all! He had also climbed all over the end table and knocked over a glass of lemonade and pushed all the pictures and mail off the table on to the floor. But that's not all- he also decided to poop on a piece of pottery in the spare room, and left a little puddle too.

Anyone have advice on what to do with a puppy that doesn't like to be left alone?