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King's Dominion

Dan is goose-honking.

Special moments

Dan just said, "I wish I were a federal credit union."

Ihop

HOV lane rocks

Sockboy

Puppy mining the carseat

Dan is excited to be in Maryland

Panoramic view

Breezewood

I like to move it move it

Dan's green card

Naptime For Puppies

Your new... MAYOR!

Break

PA Turnpike

Puppy's awake

Cuyahoga

A sign for Sadie

Benny made this and then asked for tape.

Examining the map

Examining the map

Hash browns

Driving

Mobile office

Ready to go

Benny

Tired littles

Fifty miles into Ohio

Eating his leash

Mirror

Indiana Coffee

Chicago

Sadie

Pooping at UIC

On the road

Lazytown

Sadie

Benny

Steven's Point

The expedition continues

Hat progress

Aslan and My Little Pony

Might lose signal soon

Milkshake

Madre

Warshing

Dog's dinnah

Little Girl

Funny

Driver Human

Wisconsin

Seat

Our old building

Lake Shore Drive

Downtown

Chicago

Hat progress

What's the next state?

Sadie playing with Aslan doll...

Ànd fold-out Narnia house

Amber waves of Indiana

We found one.

Tired McDog

Sadie McGrace

Singing "SmallWorld" on endless repeat

Goodbye Ohio

Arctic wasteland

Benny getting dressed...

While singing Book two cheerily.

Sadie putting herself back night-night.

Puppy

Not Elvis-related

Dan-o-vision

Time for more coffee.

Approximately Cleveland.

PA

Goodbye sun.

Maryland

Love snow

Pooping in the snow

Road rage setting in

Fries

Traffic is bad

More Elvis

Randy Roe's Salute to Elvis

Sleepy dog

Making a hat

Getting gas

Sadie's feet

We're in Richmond

Danta

Happy happy

Viewing

Danta

Surfing the web!

Love

New coffee mugs

Our wreath

Breakfast

Home

Crazy traffic

After

Before

Self defense

Benny

Ready for Santa

Benny

Reading the map

Cookie

Car seat

Violin

Sunday School

Favorite food

Human flesh

Chickens

Baby

Leroy

Sadie and Leroy

"gonna bite you!"

Sadie's feet

Starbuck's

Walmart

Dillard's

Dmv

Listening

Playing "Child Store"

Watching Polar Express

Pork Chop

Ahno's tree

On the phone

Zoe

Sharing

Pup

Project

Phillip

Sadie

Puppy

With Zoe

Playing

New Puppy

This morning on the way downstairs Benny found a dog toy on the landing. It was marked with a blue pawprint. Then he found a dog food and water dish and a Pluto toy, with another paw print! THEN HE FOUND A BOX OF PUPPY BISCUITS! With a third pawprint. Clearly the Legendary Dog Fairy had been busy during the night. When he sat on down in his thinking chair he decided that his 20 stickers on his dog chart had earned him... SOME DOG ITEMS. Of course, this wasn't what the Dog Fairy had in mind. After some subtle prompting from Dad and Mom, Benny went to examine his dog chart to ascertain the number of stickers he actually had. The chart had been replaced by a letter! And directions! He read the letter, examined the map, got dressed in record time, and we were off to find the puppy! Sadie brought her binoculars.

Of course, when we stopped at Starbucks, Benny had to engage some people in conversation. "Hi, how are you doing? How's the weather looking? How's your work going?" Etc. After a long, very earnest ramble from Benny including a completely indecipherable explanation of the Dog Fairy and our trip, one of the guys in the picture asked what school he attended. Benny said, a Homeschool. The guy looked at me and said, "Oh, that explains it." WHATEVER.

We had arranged to make the pick-up in a McDonald's parking lot about 2 hours south, in North Carolina. When we pulled in, Benny leaped from the car and approached the lady who was holding our dog, saying, "WHO IS THAT BOSTON TERRIER FOR?!" Hehehe. It was love. Before we even had the dog settled in the van, Benny said to me, with great good cheer, "I don't love you best anymore, Mom." Guess who he loves best now? Yep. Mr. Puppy Breath. Sadie is also deeply infatuated with the puppy and tells it, "Come on! Come on, puppy!" They both want to pick him up and carry him around. I hope he is sturdy. He is DARLING. He smells exactly right and he already peed on the floor. YAY!

Benny currently wants to name him BOB. Dan and I are leaning toward APU. Any suggestions?

Kiss

Sleepy

Sadie

Is this an M or a W?

Puqqy

Benny

Cute

Nice

Dog

Making a hat

Out of the tunnel

Coffee

Binoculars to look for dogs

On our way

Calling Ahno

Message from the Dog Fairy

Finding clues

Benny

Two pops

Sus

Rainy day

Sadie

Karate

Waiting for Benny

Drink

Sadie

Playing trains

Artist

Golden bean tree

Art

Sadie's

Sadie