Thankful for Dogs

Last year, close to Thanksgiving, Max's school had the children draw a picture of what they were thankful for.  I have a close friend, Paula, from college.  She lives in NJ and visited Max and I a fair amount when we lived in NYC.  Max and I visited Paula, but not that often.  Max only saw Paula's dog Lola during our visits to NJ which again, weren't that often...and the guy was so young.

Paula had not been around Max since August 09 and in November 09 the guy says he is thankful for Paula's dog.

Max has been pressuring us for a "Snoopy" dog.  We are resisting.  My original request last year, when this started, was "Max, you have to be able to dress yourself".  The guy started dressing himself the next day.  Now and since then, I've been saying he has to be able to take care of the dog.  Last week, when he asked again, I told him we'd find a friend with a dog and have Max practice cleaning up the doggy poo since that is a responsibility of having a dog.  He was slightly shocked about that and hasn't asked since.

I'll probably take a photo if I have him practice picking up some other dog's poo...