The not so perfect ending to our almost perfect day...

On Saturday after the party the guys went back to work outside on the girls' playset. After a while the girls went outside and were running around the yard, as were the dogs. When Emmerson leaned over to kiss Tux he snapped at her and bit her little face. I heard screaming and ran outside to find blood gushing from her face. It was bleeding so badly I really couldn't tell how severe the wounds were. Luckily she just had 2 small cuts near her left eye and two to the right of her little mouth. As the doctors and nurses said, she was very lucky and we know that God was watching over our little girl. I hate to think of how bad this could have been.

Mema rode along with me and Em to the E.R. She was a sweet help and I was thankful to have her there. Although she is smiling in these pics, Emmerson was not always so happy. She had to get her DTaP booster and shots at this age are seriously traumatic! The nurse saved the day when she mentioned a Popsicle and we were all smiles after that! I had to wait to talk to Animal Control so while we were waiting I whipped out my camera so we could properly document this little event! Emmerson showing me her battle scars...

So now what? Well, we have tux on an "in home quarantine" right now. Since his shots were up to date we were given the option to do his 10 day quarantine "in home." When the 10 days are up we plan on doing everything we can to adopt Tux out. While it does make me really sad, I know it's what we need to do for the safety of our sweet girls. Tux never has been very good with the girls and has on several occasions "snapped" at them. He just never got this close until now. We know that as parents we need to do everything we can to make sure our children are safe and that would mean that Tux would no longer be with us.

For those of you who don't know, we "adopted" Tux ourselves on Dent and Brandy's wedding day. I remember waking up that morning to the yapping of a puppy in Mom and Dad's backyard and getting so excited! I was certain that Dent had bought Brandy a new puppy as a wedding gift! I ran into the backyard and saw this tiny puppy! He was SO cute! He was black...looked like a lab mix...with a tiny little white mark on his chest. Dent assured me that he had no part of that dog being in the backyard. Later, we learned that the neighbor put the dog in Mom and Dad's backyard. He said that he knew we had dogs and he saw it out and assumed it was ours. I personally think he somehow ended up with a dog he didn't want and placed it there knowing we were suckers for dogs! (Could it really have been coincidence that he had a dog, almost identical, same age and same mixed breed next door? I think not.) Anyway, we decided to keep him and name him Tux...as in Tuxedo for his marks and appropriately on Dent and Brandy's wedding day. So we have loved Tux for the last 5 years. He has been a sweet, obedient and loyal dog. He has been a best friend to Bally, our other lab. So though it may seem silly, please pray for us and for Tux. We really want him to find a good home with a loving owner.

And for our little Emmerson, she is healing well...still on her antibiotics and asks often if Tux is gone yet. She also tells us that she needs another little dog with Bally because she needs 2! We'll see about that!