"Come on!" I whined. "the Wests are waiting for us!"
"Can't you tell us where we're going?' asks Ethan.
"She won't tell us anything, just that it's somewhere that we have tickets for and we're going with the wests." Says Emma.
In another ten minutes, we are in the minivan, singing along to "Oh Brother Where Art Though" and wondering what on earth our mother has in store for us.
"Are we going ice skating?"
"Maybe we're going to a concert!"
"Is it a dog show!?"
"Daddy would loooove that!" (sarcasm)
As our guesses get more and more elaborate, my mother has a harder and harder time of keeping quiet. She laughs and keeps shaking her head.
Finally, we tire of guessing and all settle into our seats for the long drive. Emma catches up on old blog posts on our cell phone, I hide behind my straightened hair imagining all sorts of things, and ethan sits quietly with his legs tucked up under him. I consider many possibilities. Maybe we are going to see a comedian preform, or a T. Swift concert. Hopefully it won't be some dumb little kid christmas show with santa and frosty the snow man scating along to white christmas. What do people usually do on Christmas Eve? Is there something going on? Did I see something on TV about a Christmas Eve show? I don't think so.
An hour or so later, I'm contentedly sipping a Pumpkin Spice Latte, and we're almost to our mysterious destination.
"Are the wests here yet?"
"Mhmmmm."
"The car needs gas." Dad pulls into a Wawa.
"Dad! We need to meet up with the Wests! We can get gas later!"
"See! They're all full! Let's goooooo!! We impatiently urge our parents away from the seemingly inconsequential Wawa parking lot. Meanwhile my father parks by a little white car. He gets out and walks over to the man in it.
As we're all wondering what on earth he could be doing, the door opens, and in the man's lap is a small, soft, perfectly copper colored, eight-week-old, King Charles Spaniel puppy. It dawns on my instantly. The secret phone calls, the schedualed meeting, the whispers, my father playing dumb. It all made sense.
"Are you frekin kiddin me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I screm as I leap from the car. Seconds later I am holding the most beautiful animal I have ever seen. He looks at me with tentatively trusting brown eyes. He snuggles into my arms. We take turns holding him as my Mom pulls out the checkbook and my dad listens to the care advice from the breeders.
"He's from Charleston." Says mom. " We wanted to drive all the way up there so we could meet his mom and siblings, but it's too far."
We barely hear her. We are all enamored with the puppy that we can't even believe is ours.
On the way home, we try desperately to come up with a name.
"His dad is from Ireland, he has to have an Irish name." I say.
"Fergus!" Says mom.
"No nick!" says Ethan.
"Yah then he can be Nick in a cage!"
"He's a Liam I'm telling you he's a Liam!" Dad insists.
"Look! That truck says Harrison, it's a sign."
We go through millions of names. Wesley, Brody, Harrison, Perry, Phineas, Ferb, Flynn, Levi, Neal, Angus, Theodore, Mozart, Reagan, Ion, Brave, Ulysses, and Rody to name a few. Meanwhile we're all cooing over our puppy.
"Oh! He just breathed! He's so cute!" exclaimed Emma.
"Look he yawned!"
"Look at his tail!"
Look look look look!!!!!!!!
After a full day of play, we settle into our beds for a long winter's nap. The puppy sleeps in a card board box beside emma's bed. Emma lays her hand in the box so he can feel safe. The house is quiet and all drift to sleep.
The dog is still not named. He's currently sleeping in his cage. Last night we had our friends over who have three little kids. He got alot of attention and is now exhausted. I still can't believe that he's mine. I still can't believe how adorable he is. I'll try to get a picture of him uploaded to my computer but until then, here's what he looks like....
.....Except he's way cuter. :)
Ahwww!! That post made me so happy. =) I'm so excited for you guys... and I wonder who thought of Flyy and Levi for names... hmm. =P Well whatever his name is, we're going to need to set up a play date for him and Ceili after the hollidays. =)
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