Introducing Chica

The Gliksman Family Proudly introduces CHICA can you guess where the name stems from? We are just SOOO original, it is pronounced Chika (as in spanish) Chica was born on July 1st 2006 and Joined our family yesterday, August 20th2006. She spent the first 24 hours greatly disappointing the girls because... She slept for most of them. This afternoon, she suddenly came to life, starting running around, startled the girls by barking :-) She is absolutely adorable and in our opinion the most beautiful ;-).

We drove close to an hour to pick her up, she is of a litter of 11 (!) 7 of which were still there. The girls insisted on a female, saying that we are now a family of girls. There were only 2 females of the seven puppies (only 3 of 11 isn't that strange). Chica was the first one Maya picked up (and dropped) So under the policy of you drop 'em you buy 'em we did! Just kidding, we really did fall in love. Maya insisted all her siblings are brought back in after we picked her so she can say good bye. She was almost in tears thinking of separating her from her mommy and siblings. (I'll take that as a sign of her liking her own family - I don't get to many of those lately, no one told me about the terrible 9's but that a different post :-).

Well Chica made it home all right, we were concerned about her reaction to the car ride, but she was an ace. We were warned that she will have a difficult couple of days, but she slept through the night, no crying at all. The only sign of depression was her sleeping most of the day, but even that is better.

I have to really thank her, school starts on September third. The girls need to be in the classroom by 8:00AM. My girls are NOT early risers... since we arrived they slowly moved their bed time to around 10:30, and made every effort to get their required 12 hour beauty sleep (does anyone see the problem?) I kept wondering how I would get them back on a normal schedule... Well thank you Chica! They alternate days of being responsible for her needs. Guess when she woke up today? 6:30 AM!!! Maya was out walking her before 7:00! And Danielle was with her! YOU GO GIRL! I would have to spit blood before I could get these two out of bed at this hour!

My brother in law said I should be prepared that in two weeks the only ones alternating care days would be me myself and I. I told him that was the reason I chose a Golden Retriever Puppy :-)

Well I will try to post some pictures. My laptop is a little wacky lately so here's to hoping.

Good Night to all!

Ronit