Family Fun

This past weekend Josh and I temporarily added a new addition to our family: Mr. Iggy Pug Manley. We thought it would be great practice to dog-sit for my best friend Clair since we are hoping to officially add to our family this summer. Yep, that's right folks--Josh and I have finally grown up. This time around we are planning for our newest baby, all 20lbs of slobbery, furry goodness. We'll be sure to send out a birth announcement when we hear that the insemination took.

Anywho....While Clair spent a fun-filled weekend with her female family members we welcomed Iggy into our home. It certainly didn't take much time for Iggy to make himself comfortable. He proceeded to to snuggle up on the couch while chewing his favorite ball. Oh-but little did he know that this was no vacation for him with Beastie lurking just around the corner.

Lennon was ecstatic to have Iggy for a two-night sleepover. Anytime there is a living creature smaller than her to boss around she's on cloud nine. With Lennon around Iggy was in constant motion and on high alert. He became her personal puppy puppet. Lennon has mastered many sentences since Iggy came to stay, including: "NO IGGY STOP!", "Iggy come here!", "Iggy go potty!" and "Good boy, Iggy." Poor Baby Reese was chucked out of her place of honor in the doll stroller and Iggy proudly took her place--if only I was able to capture it all on camera! Of course these two toddlers quickly became partners in crime. Whenever there was dead silence we were sure to find Lennon and Iggy getting into massive amounts of mischief. My poor flowers will never bloom again.

Having Iggy over has certainly opened my eyes to juggling two small, semi-helpless creatures. I don't know how mothers with several children or multiples do it. Keeping track of the two of them was a challenge. Josh found this out the hard way while trying to take Iggy, Lennon, Uncle Cody and Uncle Randy out for a walk. Then again he was over reaching with thinking he could wrangle 4 youngins' by himself.

But over all it was a pleasant experience (the 3 of us haven't gone on that many walks in one day in I don't know how long) and I think we are very ready to expand our brood come this summer. That gives us a few months to train Lennon on how to scoop up poop. I mean, if she's going to be so averse to potty training, keeping herself in diapers, the least she can do is clean up after an other's crap. They say you shouldn't push your kids too hard but....