Vada!

I am feeling like a horrible mother at the moment because I set up and told the story of how our little family ended up in Kentucky but left out the biggest (tiny) addition that came to us from Kentucky!

Little Vada - (seen the movie My Girl - if not watch it! also how our girl got her name) was not exactly a planned addition to the family but adding a playmate for George Brett had been discussed. We were running errands on a Saturday and drove past a parking lot where they were selling puppies - we're suckers- and I just thought it would be fun to stop by. We came back by later in the day and they weren't there, which was okay but got us talking about getting a puppy #2. Much to my surprise Barry said ' Do you really want another one? We could do it'. So when we got home from running errands and eating dinner that evening I started searching shelters online (we had agreed after George that we would stick to only rescue and shelter dogs), just looking while Barry was on the Play Station (lol) and I can across the picture of the tiniest little runt of a mutt at a shelter with the cutest little polar bear face and huge brown eyes! I turned the computer around and said to Barry - 'look at that little face!'. Again a picture won him over, so in a very Barry fashion, and much to my surprise, he picked up his phone and said whats the number? lets just call and check it out and if she's even there anymore.' in this one phone call in speaking with Barb (her shelter), she offered to come let us meet her and her liter (she was part of a liter but I had my heart sold to the tinest runt). So at almost 8 that evening we loaded up George bought a new pink collar and went to meet our girl. She did not disappoint. I sat on the floor with the liter and she just walked up, put her tiny paws on my chest and licked my nose - in her very Vada way- as to say 'hi mom, lets go'. lol- she also had Barry wrapped around her little finger from the word go. So we became a family of 4 on a whim - which is sometimes chaotic, but I wouldn't change it!

She is really too adorable for words, which also gets her out of a whole world of trouble