Our Newest Puppy

I always thought i was being a little bit naive when i got Magic and announced that he was our training ground for kids. i thought there was probably an unfathomable gulf between owning a puppy and caring for a newborn. And i was half right. Owning a dog definitely prepares you for the quasi-constant responsibility, getting up in the middle of the night to tend to them and also a lot of conversations that involve the word "poop". Dogs don't indulge your narcissism, don't learn to smile and laugh and are more resilient when you drop them. Plus you can lock them in your home all day and nobody calls the cops. But one unexpected way in which they are similar to kids is bath time. They pretend to hate it initially with a minor protest and then spend the rest of the time enjoying the attention and trying to slurp the water.