Allie and Hunter: It's a little early...SURPRISE

Allie has been asking us for over a year now for a dog. I feel like she started asking us while I was pregnant with Hunter, and my answer was let us have a little brother first. So, a few months ago, Allie started asking us again for a dog. She really wanted one for her birthday. I would tell her that we had to find the "right" dog for our family, that and it might not be "ON" her birthday. Her reply, "it's okay, you can get it before my birthday!" So, about 2 weeks or so before her birthday she said: "Mommy, are you getting me a dog for my birthday? You haven't said yes, and you haven't said no yet, so which is it?" I really started to give it some thought. I knew it was going to be work, and I also knew how much Allie wanted a dog and that we did want one eventually for the kids. So, why not!

I found an ad for Lab Puppies and off we went the Saturday before Allie's birthday to get one. Allie had no idea where we were going after her soccer that cool, dreary Saturday morning. We had to drive about 1 hr. 15 min. to pick up the puppy. Allie got out of the car, and we asked her what was one thing she had been asking for, for her birthday? The said so quietly, a dog. Then the man showed her 6 of the cutest black lab puppies! She was so excited. One little girl kept following Allie around, that she is the one we choose. Allie could not have been happier! Allie said there was blue on her nose when we got her (like she had been digging in something), and so I thought of the name Sky, and she liked it. We went back and forth on names she also liked, but she always went back to Sky. So, that's how our little pup got her name.