The puppy, aka Gus, as he will be known until we have a better name, should be born sometime around now. We decided to take a boy, if the momma has one, and are still up in the air about whether or not we will get a girl also. I need to see how one puppy destroys our carpet and adds to the volume of farting, pooping creatures that reside here before getting another farting, pooping machine. I am so excited about this--I want to get the puppy on a Friday, if possible, and have the house set up and Gus getting settled in with us and Handsome before getting Bubba from school. She will be so surprised. She wants to be six so bad, because we told her she could have a puppy at six, trying to throw her off the path. So to top of a long week, a cute little puppy will be just the thing we need. And then we can clean puppy crap all weekend as a family.