I remember saying last year, when Andrea said she wanted a dog that we would get one when all our kids were potty trained.

Well… I guess I need to be careful what I say, or be better about following through. Our new puppy joined the family last Friday. His name WAS Bailey, but that sounded too much like “baby” and we have a friend with a dog named Bailey, so we switched to “JD” as a reference to Scrubs and Dead Like Me. In “Dead Like Me” Reggie adopts a dog that is left on her doorstep and calls him “JD” — when people ask what it stands for, she says “Just Dog.” Love it.

JD is a 4 month old post-parvo Border Collie/Mix that is super smart. He learned to sit, shake and stay in less than a week. He is *mostly* potty trained, but hasn’t quite figured out how to indicate to us that he needs to go outside. We let him out after he eats/drinks and he does a good job not going in his crate, but he’s had about 1-2 accidents a day since we’ve gotten him. Now Andrea is dealing with 3 things that pee everywhere–but she loves the dog.

Anyway, we’re hoping this gets us to be a bit more active and that we enjoy having a dog. Lots of challenges ahead… how crazy are we?

Yeah, that was supposed to be rhetorical.