Our little Jonzy is growing up!

Jonzy is growing up. He barely fits on my lap any more. I took him to the vet last week and he weighed in at 25 lbs. (3 weeks ago he was 16 lbs.) He has gained 50% of his weight in 3 weeks!!! Crazy, huh?

With the weight he has gained, I think he has gained energy also. He is like the energizer bunny... he just goes and goes and goes. It's nonstop. So this is the daily routine: Wake up and take him for a walk or run (depending on how ambitious I am at 5:30 in the morning), during lunch break we go for another walk (just a short one b/c I don't have much time) and then in the evening, we go for a long walk. If the long walk in the evening doesn't wear him out, we resort to this.....

Having Jonzy run next to Casey while he's biking. Our neighbors think this is the funniest or the weirdest thing they've ever seen. But it works. He comes in after this bike run and is exhausted. The way we like it. This way, Jonzy can run a couple miles in the evening too without us having to exert much effort.

If you ever come over, we will have to show you Jonzy's tricks. He has been going to puppy training once a week and so far he can sit, stay and shake. Soon he will be able to lay down.


So having this wonderful puppy has really made me question.... Am I ready for kids? I really don't think I could have both a puppy and a baby at the same time. I would go crazy. Jonzy requires a lot of attention and training right now. He also limits us quite a bit. Running errands has never been so hard. At least kids can come into the grocery store or Target with you. With both of us working full time, we like to spend all of our time with Jonzy when were not working. So it is hard to leave him at home when we go to run errands. With being in Waverly, running errands takes quite a while. We have to plan on at least an hour for traveling and an hour or two running errands. We have tickets to go to the College World Series tomorrow, but we are here thinking.... what are we going to do with Jonzy? He can only be in his kennel for about 4 hours at a time. So we will have to think on that one. I need to find a neighborhood kid that wants to babysit a dog. So this blog is a lot longer than I thought it was going to be, but in a nutshell I think the kids are going to have to wait a little while longer. Jonzy needs to grow up a little bit.