Day Four

Everyone is getting along well, specifically Ginny and Eden.  She's has a couple little accidents, but its not really her fault, just gotta be quicker getting her outside after she naps.  We attached her tags to her collar, so now she jingles.  HAVE to fix that before church Sunday.  I might be the only one that latches on to that sound and its really distracting.  A little tape or a rubberband should solve that.

Here's a few pics from the last couple of days.

Sisters taking a snooze after play time.  Pam said Ginny was playing nicely and getting down low to Eden's level, and didn't yip when Eden would nibble on her ears, she's such a good dog.  It took her a while to bond like this with Kody, so its nice to see them together so soon, its only been 3 1/2 days.  It might just be me, but I think Eden is more calm that Kody was.  When they were done playing they both crashed and Pam snapped this pic.

Two pretty girls - Rebekah and Eden were chilling and listening to music, or texting or tweeting. Knowing Bekah, she was probably trying to catch up on some much needed sleep she's missed over the last few nights.

When I walked in  they both looked up and smiled for the camera


Eden was sleeping on Bekah's lap the other night, and started to slide backwards through the rungs of the kitchen chair.  No worries, she slid slowly, she was never in any danger of falling to the floor, and Bekah only held her here long enough to get a few pictures

As I'm typing this, I head "Oh No! Eden!" come from the other room.  Apparently Eden stepped on or sat on the remote control and changed the channel - they were watching America's Next Top Model.

Peter Says from the kitchen : "She's got good taste, I like you girl"

In The Beginning

Bekah and Eden

On Monday, March 25th around 2:00PM our lives changed a bit.  We received a new seeing eye puppy to raise.  Her name is Eden, and we're hoping she's as peaceful as we all imagine the garden being, because she's just as beautiful.  You'll notice her green ear in the photo with Bekah.  All of the dogs get a tatoo in their ear to help identify them, and the green is left over from that procedure.  Its already started wearing off, in a few days, you'll never notice it.

Eden is our (really Bekah's) second puppy to raise for the Seeing Eye Foundation's Puppy Raising Program.  Kody, our first puppy (a cute yellow lab), was placed last month with a woman in Florida.  So we're up here shivering, and he's in Florida keeping warm. Lucky dog. 

It didn't take Eden long before she started to get to know her step-sister Ginny as seen in the photo to the left.  I'm not sure what Ginny is thinking here, probably, "dog what are you doing?"  OR maybe "... really?  another puppy? what is it with these people?"

In all honesty we weren't going to raise another one, mostly because of our busy schedules, but after seeing Kody pass his town walk (think final exam) we all kind of melted and realized what a great thing it is to have these dogs trained to help the blind.  A couple days later, we discussed it again and were a bit more wishy-washy.  Bekah really wanted a German Shepherd puppy this time, so she asked if we can get a Shepherd can we do it?  And I said ok.  Well woudn't you know, a litter was just born and now we have Eden, a 7-week old German Shepherd.

She is really adorable, and has this cute little growly thing she does, and the other day she was chewing on something and Pam told her no in a nice way, Eden sat down and yipped what I swear was 'No' back at Pam.  Pretty funny. 

She is sleeping in Bekah's room in a small crate for now. Bekah says she likes to wake her up every two hours at night, and despite the crazy sleep she's getting, still seems to like Eden.  I remember this lasting a couple weeks with Kody, so pretty soon Bekah will be able to sleep again.

Here are some more pics, I purposly put in the blurry ones so you can see - she's a puppy, she doesn't sit still yet :)

Using this for a growth chart, I'll take pics every week with her and this green ball