One Week

Yesterday we hit our one week mark, and we finally have adopted Collin. They give you a week to make sure things work out and if not they take him back. Well he is working out great. We are just waiting on our paper work for him, so we can go register him with the army.

The first time I left him alone was not so great. He shredded my curtains. Then he managed to lock himself in the laundry room, and he must of panicked. He shredded the brand new 42 lb bag of dog food. Then he decided to pull the vent out of the wall and eat the dry wall. Let's just say it was not a great welcome home present. But we got him a kennel and he is doing really well in it. He doesn't go in it on his own, we just have to "help" him in there. Other than the first day I left him alone, he hasn't really ruined too much stuff. He DOESN'T touch the kids' or really chew anything that he isn't suppose to.

As for him and Cyra the cat. They are doing alright. As of right now she stays upstairs and he stays down stairs til its bed time. We have baby gates at the top and bottom of the stairs. When she feels good she comes down and will sniff him. He just gets too excited for her and she runs off. Today she came all the way into the kitchen and she was doing okay until he got excited and she ran, then he chased her. I mean for him only being here a week, I think we're making great progress. I am confident that maybe in a few months we won't have to worry too much about them.

The kids have been doing great. Cooper can now climb on to every piece of furniture we have. Ciarrah is doing well. We only have just over a month til summer break. We are getting ready to put up our swimming pool. Once we have someone come out and level our back yard a bit. We tried to put it up today and we found out that it is really uneven.