It's a Boy!

While more of our friends are getting pregnant and having babies, we felt we just couldn't be left behind. So we got a boy of our own - a dog that is. I mean, why get huge, swollen and sick and go through all the pain of having a kid when you can just get a dog to satisfy your urges to care for something? Not that we don't want kids, cuz we do. Just not this year.

So we got Magnum from Big Dog Rescue in December. Kyre was obsessed with him before we even met him and after we met him he was even more in love. He was really timid and shy and took us sitting in his foster mom's driveway petting him for half an hour before he would even look at us. He's still a shy guy, but he's we're working on his social skills.

We had a hard time naming him, thus realizing how lucky we are to have a couple more years to work on names for our actual children because we suck at naming things. We even had friends come over and brainstorm with us to make sure the dog was named properly. Kyre's suggestions: Dog, Chief, Brinkley (which is totally stealing from You've Got Mail so that didn't count), and John Spilker. Needless to say none of those were happening. Long story short, we named him Magnum for his amazing posing abilities and called him Louie Magnum Optimus Prime while he learned his new name. My nephew Corbin came up with the transition. Clever boy.