yep, it's puppy love

This was a heck of a day! It was nice to be out in the world again after all the illness! Dennis and I were at school all day, and then we made a special trip to the Dollar Tree for puppy accessories. And then, we made an even more special trip out to Mrs. Linda's house to choose a puppy! Dennis picked the lighter colored male, a lab of palest yellow who came when Dennis called him and immediately commenced chewing on Dennis' shorts and my shoe. He's a cute little tub of a pup, and it was fun to watch the puppies romping around together. One of Dennis' school friends just got one of the girl puppies, and his preschool music teacher is getting the other little boy. Dennis very much enjoyed romping with all the dogs (parents, uncle, puppies) and put a new red collar on his puppy, which he's officially named "Lemonade". Lemonade will come home Thursday night. Dennis can't wait!

As if meeting his new puppy wasn't exciting enough, we spent the rest of our evening at the County Fair. Dennis was actually vibrating with excited anticipation by the time we got inside the gates. After he got his arm band, he was so overcome with glee that he announced to us "I just love you both so much!". He rode and rode and rode every ride he was tall enough to ride. His good friends from school were there, and he rode with them some. When he wasn't riding with them, we noticed an unusual phenomenon. Cute little blonde girls always ended up riding with him. They weren't girls that he knows, but they were certainly his type! Different girl or girls on each ride, but always cute and blonde. It's like he's a magnet for them! My favorite part was when he was riding the kiddie bumper cars with his friend Cameron, and two cute little girls were in the car behind theirs. Dennis and Cameron flirted with those girls for the entire ride, grabbing the girls' car and holding it against theirs (to be closer?). I had a preview of the coming years, I think. There's nothing like watching four-year-olds get their flirt on.

We (Dennis and I) saw our first Demolition Derby tonight--we watched the Four Cylinder division. The cars were painted in this year's theme, Angry Birds, and we enjoyed watching them bash each other.

We poured one exhaustedly happy little kid into bed tonight (after a haircut and shower). Long, long day, but it sure was a happy one!