Enter Layla

Meet Layla, the newest addition to our already busy household! She comes with a lot of work but even more fun :)

I don't have much time to update right now (as you can imagine with both a 5-month-old baby girl and a 2-month-old puppy in the house), but I will tell you about a little challenge we've given ourselves. We want this puppy to be the most well-socialized, well-behaved dog on the block, so we have challenged ourselves to have at least 100 people visit her at our house before July 5, when she turns 3 months old. Please come visit us!! She's adorable and fun, and this will really help her learn to love people...a special invitation to kids and men!!

Also, seems like a silly thing to ask, but we would appreciate prayers. We got Layla because we love dogs, but I also am 100% convinced that there is therapeutic value when people in stressful situations interact with sweet puppies. I so want Layla to serve that function for foster children who enter our home, and I might like to finally achieve my goal of training this dog to be a certified therapy dog. We feel the weight of this even more heavily sense our situation with Peanut, so pray that we get rest and pray that we do a good job in this crucial month of her little life!

Things with Emmy are good. This weekend obviously threw her routine for a loop, but hopefully tomorrow will be the beginning of a more normal week for her. Continue to pray diligently for her mother. The updates I receive get more and more dire every day.