More about Lucy

So I introduced you to our sweet Lucy, now let me tell you a little more. Lucy is a 3.5 pound, 12 week old Maltese. She will get to be around 8(ish)  pounds and she is FULL of personality.

Back before THANKSGIVING we were shopping for Christmas gifts and we just weren't having much luck. We didn't want the kids' rooms to be filled with toys that would break in one week, played with once and then no longer touched and so on. We've been that route and it stresses me out. So we were on the hunt for a great BIG gift that we could give to all 3 of the kids.

Tim called me the day before we were to head out to Nashville on a weekend getaway. He had seen an ad in the paper with Maltese puppies for sale. Now he knew I wanted a Maltese REALLY bad and he knew I wanted an indoor dog REALLY bad. We had tried Heidi inside but my allergies just couldn't take it, plus she is 100 pounds of fur that left puddles of water/drool on my kitchen floor after she got a drink. Maltese have hair not fur (so you have to give them haircuts) and they DO NOT shed! This makes them hypoallergenic.

Back to the phone call... Tim had called and talked to the breeder and we could come by on our way back from Nashville to see the puppies. I was positively GIDDY from then on!

Sunday (Nov.18) we went by to see the puppies, pick ours out and put the deposit down for her.
Here's the pictures from that trip:

 She was only 4 weeks old then and TINY!

 She was too young to leave her mother but would be ready to come home on Christmas Eve.
That meant we had to keep her a secret from our kids for 6 (SIX) whole weeks! That was the hardest thing I have ever had to do!

You can see she was just a little bigger than my cell phone at the time.

Tim went Christmas Eve and picked her up with his brother. I stayed back and took care of the kids and the entire time I was dying to see what she looked like now. We knew she would get bigger but were unsure just how much bigger. 

Tim texted me this picture when he got her:

 Now she looks like she has gotten A LOT bigger but don't let that ball of hair deceive you, she was still small but with much more hair now.

 Jonathan got to hold her the entire way back home. She gets cold easily since she has hair and not fur so we make sure to wrap her in a blanket or jacket.

 We found out right away that letting her sleep in her crate in another room wasn't going to work. She was SO PLAYFUL and we knew the kids would hear her. Thankfully my parents agreed to keep her at their house that whole day.

 My grandmother fell in love with her and I don't know that Lucy ever left her side.

That night Tim went to pick her up from my parents house while I went on and took the kids home. We then put the kids to bed and threatened them not to get out of their bed but for emergencies only. 

Lucy was a trooper and whined very little and even that was quiet. 

Christmas morning came and we had actually done it..... we kept her a secret for 6 weeks and kept her hidden for 24 hours. 

Up next: Surprising the kids with Lucy and the rest of their Christmas gifts.