Diesel and the Donaldson Kids

So the kids are in love with the dog. Well, mostly. Gabriel alternates between wanting to crawl around on the floor with the puppy and then running away in abject terror when the dog jumps on him. Gabriel prefers a dog-tired puppy.



Lotus is reveling in the opportunity to have yet another creature to boss around. Here she is reading up on Labs, so she can become "the house puppy expert and tell everyone what to do." Since determining that I've only been around one other puppy, she's already discounted any experience I may have raising dogs (which is probably not much to begin with, since the last puppy I had was when I was 5).



Joaquin is mostly neutral about the puppy. He's a big, big fan of the dogs-that-play-fetch-endlessly, and so the potential playmate he has in Diesel is far enough in the future as to render the dog a short-lived novelty.



And Jude? Well, the addition of Diesel has been the single biggest motivating factor for Jude to finally start walking full time. I would too, if I had a dog sniffing my butt all the time.