Monday, May 30, 2011

My first entry. By Rozi.

Greetings, my friends. I'm putting together this, my first blog post, from a distance away from my new home, but I wanted to say "hello" and let you know a little about me and about why I'm excited to be getting close to my first day at my new home.

First, you probably already know that my name is Rozi, and that I have a sister (Abby) and that we live with lots of other puppies and our moms. My mom's name is Audrey Rose, but I wasn't named after her; I was named "Rozi" because my new family thought it sounded good with Izzi, who is already living there. Now, Izzi is my cousin..and my half-sister! Isn't that amazing? That one puppy can be another puppy's cousin and sister? And, there's a chance that I'm her grandmother, or that she's my great auntie, but we'll let dogancestry.com figure that out. See, my mom and Izzi's mom are sisters, so since our mothers are sisters, we're cousins. But, much like the British monarchy and the Bush family, there's - um - a bit of inbreeding in our group: my father and Izzi's father are the same! Yup, so that makes Izzi and me half-sisters. See why it gets so confusing? But, that's really not important, since we (that is, Izzi and I) are both cute and white and we will probably look a lot like sisters when I'm bigger.

Which is the main point of writing this today, many days before I get to live with my half-sister/cousin and my new family: I want to tell you a little about me and what I'm excited about.

So, you know that I come from a small litter, but I can't tell you if I'm older than my sister or if my sister is older than I am. I do know that we look alike, except that my nose started to get darker before hers did. Of course, now she also has a dark nose, so only someone who saw us when we were little little puppies would know about that. And, we're about the same size, my sister and I. We both like to play, and we like to fight with each other.

Last weekend, when I was on a visit to my new home, my sister and another relative (please don't ask me to draw the family tree; I'm little and that would be exhausting) named Tinkerbell (or "Tink") came for a visit. We three girls were excited about going for a ride without our mothers...kind of a girl's day out! When we got to my new home, there were lots of people who wanted to talk to us and play with us, and there was also Izzi, who is a very big puppy (but smaller than my mom). We three little puppies ran around a lot. Abby jumped on Izzi from behind once, and if I had vocal chords, I would have laughed and laughed. 

Then, another time, I decided that I was tired of playing with a little yellow ball that someone gave me, so I attacked my sister, just like we do when we're playing at our home. She and I wrestle a lot; some times I jump on her and some times she jumps on me. But, we don't really hurt each other (even though we do make a lot of noise!). While we were playing and wrestling, big sister (that's how I think of her) Izzi was running around with Tink, and as all of us know, Tink is a curious little puppy, so Izzi was doing a lot of chasing and being chased. I heard that Tink not only ran into another room, but that she looked out the big gigantic windows near the wood floor that was on the outside of the house. She's a real character, that Tink!

Soon, it was time for us to go, but not before we had thousands and millions of pictures taken of us. Some of them are on other web sites and a few of them are right after these words. Thanks to my new friend/sibling Ben for taking such fun pictures...

Izzi gets to know me better
Playing with my new big sister
I've got the ball! I've got the ball!
Wandering around...


We really had a fun day but we were all tired so it was good to get back in our carrier and head to our soon-to-be-former home.

Now, I promised you that I'd tell you about what it was that I'm looking forward to when I get to my new home.

1) Play with Izzi. She seems like she will be a fun playmate and I know that I will be running around a lot with her. I hope I can keep up with her (I heard she's pretty fast in the back yard).

2) Learn all about how to behave from Izzi. Like, how late in the morning should I wait until I start licking everyone's face to wake them up? I don't even know how to read a clock yet, so I'm hoping that Izzi will show me.

3) Eat delicious food. I love the food I get at my home, but when I was at my new home, I could smell some wonderful food smells. I think I smelled roast beef and turkey, but since I've never had either one, I could be wrong.

4) Be with my new family. They all seem really great, and I can't wait to play with them and be their friend. I'm lucky that I have big sister Izzi

So, as I said earlier, I'm really excited that I'll soon be with my new family. I'm not sure exactly when that will be, but I know that my sister and the cousin/half-siblings/whatever that I live with will be moving this month, and I hope I will be too.

I wonder if I'll get a pretty bed.  I wonder if I'll get my own dish. I wonder if I will get to go shopping like me big sister Izzi does. I wonder about so much, but I'm just excited to be with my new family.

Yippity, Yip, Yip, Yip
Rozi