An update on Molly

  Last night we went to Jensen Park with John and Suzi. It was so much fun, we took the dogs to get some exercise and play together. Yup, all three dogs: Molly, Lucas, and Sophie.  It was so much fun.  After we walked around the park for a little while we stopped at one of the ponds and let the dogs fetch a floating toy that John had.  First Lucas went, then Sophie, and then Molly. We weren't sure how Molly would do because we have only had her a few days, but we thought we would see if she would go into the water.  So after she watched Lucas and Sophie retrieve the toy, then it was her turn.  Steve put the toy a few feet out and Molly went for it. Only she was very dainty about it, just like a lady. LOL.  Then the more she felt comfortable Steve threw it out farther.  By the end of the night Molly was going out there to get it pretty good.  The kids had fun watching the dogs swim in the pond.  It was a lot of fun and just a good wholesome family activity. I think that having Molly around is going to make me more active, because she sure has a lot of energy.  

  Also this weekend Steve built a dog run for Molly on the side of the house. Courtesy of my dad, he had some extra materials from his vinyl fence that he put up at his house.  So Molly has a nice size dog run on the side of the house and all we had to spend was about $45 for the gate hardware.  That definately beats a couple hundred bucks for a chainlink dog run from Petsmart. So now I won't feel so bad when she is by herself all day while Steve and I are at work.  We do have one more thing to do in her dog run before I will let her stay in there.  And that is to build some sort of barrier around the central air unit.  I do not want Molly to chew at the wires or damage the A/C unit.  That would be really, really bad.  So today she is in her kennel while we are at work.  But Molly is kennel trained which is awesome, so she is great to stay in there.  

  So there you have it, a big long post about what we did with Molly over the weekend.  Isaac really likes her because Molly will follow him around the yard.  And as for Audrey, I think Molly is growing on her.  She has always had a fear of large dogs, so it is taking time to ease her into Molly, but the other day Molly was giving her kisses and Audrey just giggled (after she got over the initial fear).  Also the only casualties we have had with Molly chewing things was a sippy cup and part of Isaac's T-ball bat.  So that is not bad.  We will see what this week holds......