Puppy Pick-up Day!! Bringing Home Millie!

Get ready for a lot of puppy pictures!!

Finally, after what seemed like the longest wait ever, on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, Trent and I along with his parents and his sister's family, made the little over an hour trip to pick up Millie and her sister Maizie to join our families forever!

We walked into the house and they had both of the puppies out and ready for us. They handed Millie to me right away and I almost started crying because it was so crazy that the day was here and we were taking her home! 

The puppies just walked around and checked everyone out while we talked with the breeders and asked some questions.

Before long, it was time for us to head out and take the puppies with us!

The ride home started out with Millie being quite a bit squirmy, but eventually, she fell asleep on my lap and was just as cute as ever!

We made a brief stop at Trent's parents' house on our way towards home, and Mattie and Millie got to meet for the first time. Mattie wanted nothing to do with Millie and would run away and/or growl any time she got close. That sure made me think that their road to being best friends was going to be a little rougher than I had originally thought!

Mattie running away from Millie

Here's a few videos from when we got there to pick them up and Millie, Mattie, and Casey playing at Trent's parent's house. Sorry for the not so great focused camera work!! And for my talking and laughing!

We made one final stop at Trent's sister's house, where the puppies got to hang out for a little while and we all had a quick supper. It was quite a revolving door with there being four dogs there and two of them being puppies. There was always some dog that needed to go outside to take care of business!

Millie on the left and Maizie on the right

The two hour trip home to our house was pretty uneventful. Millie slept most of the time, which was nice so I didn't have to worry about her moving around and possibly peeing on me! :)

Our first night was pretty interesting. We didn't do very good at introducing Millie to her kennel where she was going to sleep, so when we put her in there, she screamed bloody murder. It was pretty horrible! I looked at Trent and said, "This is way worse than I thought it was going to be!"

Luckily that didn't last very long. After she cried for a while, we took her outside and then moved her to a little bigger kennel and tried again. She only cried for a short while and then she went to sleep. That first night, we were up between every 45 minutes to 2 hours, which was a little exhausting. Thankfully, Trent's parents had come with us to our house, so they watched Millie in the morning after they got up and we both slept for a few hours without having to worry about her! That was amazing!

That Sunday, Monday and Tuesday were spent getting to know Millie and trying to get her acclimated to her home with us. She had her first vet appointment here in Omaha on that Monday and everything went well with that. She weighed in at 13 and a half pounds. She goes back right after the new year, so it will be quite interesting to see what she weighs just a month later! She sure seems to be getting bigger each day!

Shes a lot easier to photograph when she's sleeping if you couldn't tell!

I am happy to report that Mattie has grown to be able to tolerate Millie now. Millie attacks Mattie every time she's around, but instead of Mattie barking at her and getting angry, she plays right back, so that's progress! They even napped by each other this weekend!

We're down to getting up just about once (sometimes twice) a night with her. She usually gets up between 1 and 2 and then she's up for the day around 5:30. On work days, we both get up at 5:30, and I'll get ready for work first while Trent goes down and lets the dogs out and feeds them, then I'll come down around 6:15 and hang out with the dogs while Trent gets ready for work. He'll leave when he's ready and I'll stay until about 7:30 when I need to leave. It's usually a battle to keep her awake until it's time to go into her kennel for the day, but we do our best since she has to be in there for most of the day. We have dog walkers come and let her out twice a day now while she's little, and we are so thankful to have them!

On the weekends, one of us gets up with her at 5:30 to feed her so that stays regular for her, and then we let her fall asleep around 7:30. At that time, whoever got up with her will go back to sleep until she wakes up again. It works pretty well for us, but I'll be very happy when we can trust her in the house like we can trust Mattie. We've got a ways to go before then, though.

It sure has been a struggle at times dealing with the unpredictability of having a puppy and with how demanding they are, needing your attention at all times, but I know it will be all worth it to have such an amazing new member of our family!

And here's our two girls from from a few days ago! Pretty soon, Millie will be bigger than Mattie!