Puppy ... Puppy ...

Curly Top says "puppy ... puppy ... " 100 times a day ... mostly it is for the cartoon Kipper ... she is in love with him ... she belly laughs at the cartoon so hard she actually fell off the couch the other day and kept laughing ...

Yesterday all she wanted to watch was Kipper ... and it just wasn't coming on Sprout ... at 8:45 when Caiou (another one she is in love with) was ending I talked her into getting ready for bed ... we had all been laying in bed together watching TV ... as we walked to her bedroom I heard the TV on downstairs and thought to myself I should go turn it off but didn't ...

Finally she was crawling into bed and heard the first 3 notes of the Kipper song and that was it ... she was so inconsolable cause "puppppppy" was on she just had to watch it ... how could I say no ...

We went back into my room to turn it on and the child laughed so hard she couldn't catch her breath ... and was just so so so happy ... she had no problem getting in bed at 9:00 after the show was over ...

As she laid down she said, "puppy ... puppy" and patted her bed ... she just wants a dog so so badly and D and I are not dog people at all ... I am not even sure how her DNA make-up is allowing for the want of a dog ... when both of her parents want nothing to do with dogs ...

But the thought keeps coming back ... it would be like Santa moved in with her if she got a dog ... the world could never be bad if her own little puppy followed her around ...

But then I keep thinking ... a dog ... really ... are we going to have to do this at sometime ... D already has a conniption when neighbors let their dogs poop in our yard without cleaning it up ... I mean he even painted a big sign that says "Clean up after your dog" and it is staked in our front yard ... I can only imagine when he runs over poop with the lawn mower in our backyard ... the shit would hit the fence for sure ...