Growing Like a Weed

Lola is four months old now and man is she growing fast! I took her to the vet for her last set of puppy shots on Friday and she weighed 44.5 pounds.

It seems like only yesterday she was a little 9 week old, 19 pound ball of fur. She has been such a good puppy! She is doing an awesome job with potty training. She goes and stands by the door when she's ready to go out, and if we don't see her, she comes up to us and whines and then goes back to the door to let us know, "Hey!! I'm waiting patiently for you to let me out!" She still has an occasional accident, but that is mostly when she's in the middle of a crazy, hyper, playtime mode, and it's like all of a sudden she goes, "Uh Oh, I gotta go NOW!" And so she does.

She has also done a great job learning her tricks. She can "sit", "shake" and "lay down", and we have been working on "turn around". She also knows that "Go to jail" means that it's time to get into her crate. And although it's not her favorite thing to do, she will begrudgingly "go to jail"... for a treat of course!

 Brad and I are talking seriously about getting a fence put up around the backyard soon since Lola loves to be outside so much. I'm sure this will change after the temperatures start to warm up, but she sure loves to run around on these cooler days. It would be so nice to be able to leave her out there to play as much as she wants until she's ready to come back in. So, hopefully we will be able to proceed with that fairly soon!!

Miss Lola has definitely kept us busy and on our toes for the past couple of months. Toys are EVERYWHERE, I can't keep the back sliding glass door free of nose and slobber marks, and her curiosity gets her into everything, but we have truly loved it!! She's a sweet baby girl who is growing up so fast!!