Vet, Playdates, Memorial Day, & Stairs!

What a week!!! It's been great! It is definitely proving more difficult than I thought to update as often as I wanted, so I think I'm just gonna keep it to 2-3 times a week. :) Here's a recap of Saturday - Tuesday

Saturday:
Maggie was such a good girl at the vet! The office was nice enough to let us in before the holiday weekend, thank goodness. The vet tech explained so much to us - and at first it was kind of hard to process. I felt bad for having her repeat it so much, but being my first time ever dealing with animal health, I was completely blown away. But we got it all down. Maggie got her second set of DHLPP and her Bordetella vaccine. We also started her on Frontline Plus & Heartgard Plus. She wouldn't eat the Heartgard Plus "treat" for anything though... We had to mash it up and put it in with some peanut butter and kibble for her to eat it. Ugh. Hope next month's easier!

After the vet trip, we took Maggie to Chesterton to visit my best friend Megan & her 3 dogs - Kairi (Siberian Husky, 2 yrs), Buffy (Australian Shepherd, 6 mo.), & Roxi (Yorkshire Terrier, 7 yrs). Maggie had a blast! Buffy was being kind of dopey, but since it was only the 2nd time I've seen her, I gave her plenty of loving too, haha. Maggie kept getting mad that Roxi wouldn't play with her! At first, Kairi wasn't used to Maggie's small size & Maggie didn't really know how to play back with her. But they warmed up to each other and Maggie attached real quick to Kai and Kai protected her when Buffy was getting dopey. :) It was super cute, and they're gonna be best friends too.

Monday:

David's family came over for the holiday! I got them a cheap room at the hotel I work at and after I got off work, we came home to meet the puppy! Allex (David's nephew) was super super excited, but he really didn't know how to play with such a small dog - it was really cute. David's Mom is really rooting for grandchildren, but I think that once she saw Maggie, she kind of understood that hubabies won't come for awhile. We had alot of fun though. Maggie was very well behaved and everyone had a great time! I think Maggie was exhausted by all the attention!

And even though I'm jumping the gun, I'm too excited to wait to say:
MAGGIE IS CLIMBING THE STAIRS!!!We're so happy! I sat with her on the stairs for about 20 minutes on Wednesday and she whined and cried and was being really stubborn, but finally, she bounded all the way up! She didn't even look at or sniff any of the treats I had set down along the way. Now she's going up all the stairs on her own! It's slow, but she's been making really good progress! She still won't go down the stairs, but I think at this point, it may be physically impossible for her since she's so little. She's just now getting up enough courage to jump off the couch, so I'm sure soon enough she'll be jumping and climbing everything!! Hooray!!!