"Teddy Bear"

Well, the kids have been begging for a puppy for at least a year, and we never have gotten one because they want a tiny one and I only like HUGE dogs and Ryan doesn't really like dogs at all. A couple months before Christmas I started researching different breeds and trying to find something we could live with that would also be great for the kids and not shed much. Finally I decided on a toy schnauzer and I found a chocolate male that I wanted out of a litter in New Mexico! I started making payments on him (a total of $600) and finally paid him off last week. The very sweet woman that was raising the puppies in her home with her 3 small kids (which I loved because he'd already be used to lil kids before we got him around our lil ones!)  decided that she'd come to Amarillo to finish her Christmas shopping last Saturday and she brought him to my house! I was stoked because this saved us the three hour trip we were going to have to make this week! (The original plan was that we'd meet her half way, which was an hour and a half... but then back again would've made it three total.) Anyway, the puppy is cuter than in the pics she sent me. He looks just like a lil teddy bear, which is one of the names Tinzleigh came up with when I asked her to come up with some puppy names for a stuffed animal a while back... hahaha. ;) We had planned on waiting to give the puppy to the kids Christmas morning, but of course I couldn't wait! My mom kept him till Sunday afternoon and then I put him in a wrapped box with a pop off lid and brought him in. They were so excited when they saw him! They've barely done anything else besides play with him since that moment. He's their new favorite toy! lol He answers to "Teddy" already and loves playing with the kids. He's so layed back he just lets them do whatever they want to him! The only problem is that I am already getting frustrated with the puppy potty training thing. He refuses to go on the puppy pads... even if I put him in the laundry room with a pad and put the gate up, he will wait however long it takes for me to give up and decide to let him out and then he'll go on the floor! Ugghhh!!! These pads are supposed to attract the puppy??? Yeah right! I think they repel him! lol Good thing most of our house is concrete floors... soooo easy to clean up! :) Anyway, once I figure this out and he starts doing better, things will be perfect. He's a really sweet lil guy and we're so pleased!