An addition to the family

As you can see from the photos below our family has expanded to include another girl, albeit a canine one. Her name is Miko and she is a 14 week old japanese Akita. We got her from the japanese akita welfare trust as her breeder could no longer care for her. She is absolutely adorable and everyone (except possibly the cats is in love with her. Sam is beside himself to have a dog and M beamed from ear to ear when he saw her. I think she is adorble and look forward to the challenge of training her. We have decided that she is not going to be exclusively home educated-dog trainig is so out of my realm of experience that we are going to puppy classes. Our first one is monday night-maybe by then she might have learnt her name! Her big accomplishment of the day today was to master going up stairs. Going down them is proving somewhat trickier.

The rest of last week passed in a blur. M got home safely and had a good trip. We had fairly quiet days at the end of the week and a low key weekend. For most of the weekend I had two sons called sam as sam from next door decided that our house was the place to be. My sam was of course delighted and they were busy hatching plans for extended sleepovers. thankfully they are all for an unspecified time in the future.

We did very little seat work last week as we were busy on lots of field trips. Yesterday, despite driving 200 miles round trip to pick up Miko we managed to do all our work. Today Miko helped us with school work which delighed sam. She has agreed to teach him japanese and he in turn is going to teach her how to write the word dog. sounds like a great arrangement to me.