The Sewing Mom

We made it through our first night with the new puppy, barely!  Actually, she went to bed pretty easily, fell asleep right outside of her crate at 9:15 last night.  My daughter placed her in the crate and she fell asleep after only a little whining.  About 1:30 in the morning she was crying so I took her outside where she pottied and then I put her back in her crate and headed for beaded.  She cried fairly loudly for about 10 minutes and then fell back asleep.  Not for long though.  I woke up to crying again at 2:30 and tried to repeat the earlier routine, but this time, after going outside, she decided she wanted to play, not sleep.  I tried leaving her in her crate but the noise was horrible.  Before long, the whole family was up trying to figure out what to do.  Eventually, around 3:30, she got tired again.  I got her back in her crate where she whimpered for about 5 minutes and then we all went back to bed.  It would’ve been a great moring to sleep in, but unfortunately, hard as he tried not to, my husband woke up the puppy as he was trying to leave to go to work just before 7 am.  My daughter and I both got up then and began our day. 

Things are going pretty smoothly so far today.  My daughter is working really hard with the dog and our goal today is to teach her to sleep in her bed inside her crate.  She’s currently on her second nap of the day and she’s in the crate, asleep, with her paws hanging out the open door.   She’s so funny, she likes to lay in her bed with her head hanging out and she looks almost like she’s doing a headstand!  I can’t get a picture of that now because the batteries went dead on my digital camera and I can’t get to the store just yet.