D@mn dog...

Yes, it is a known fact that I do not like animals. SO how did this family end up with fish, a bird, a lizard, and now a puppy?? Ok, so the kids do love him and he is so cute, BUT after being in the house for almost 2 months now, we are still struggling with the potty training. Sonny was born on 9/9/08 so technically he is still young for potty training, but after traveling over the holidays and everyone being so diligent about taking him outside, it was so frustrating to come home and watch him immediately have accidents in the house. So in my brilliant parenting mode, I decide to confine him to the kitchen. I find the kid gate and put it up at one entrance to the kitchen and then block the side to the dining room. He, of course, proceeds to jump over the block. Then I enlist Wil to help me move a heavier taller box to block the dining room...he of course jumps over that. We pile both boxes and finally he is trapped. I go upstairs...come downstairs and he is chewing a hole in the gate!! OMG! I block the gate with a different box. He is trapped...nope he climbs through the railing in the stairwell. I get more boxes and block him from the stairs, nope...he jumps over the top of the boxes and through the stairwell...more boxes!! Well as you can now probably imagine PEOPLE can not get in or out of the kitchen...arghhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Wil is laughing the whole time...WHO IS IN CHARGE?