Stuff about me: Early days

Tonight, I will tell you a little bit about my first weeks, before I came home to live with Mommy and Daddy. I will show you some pictures, too, so you will know that I have always been cute. (But then, you probably already knew that.)

I was born on June 29, 2008, with two sissies and six brothers. We were born a few days early, and we were all black. Mommy was really happy when she heard we were born: June 29 is her Baby Royko's birthday, too (and she was black). That made her very happy. She says it showed we were meant to be together.

Mommy was not my first mommy. We came out of a pretty yellow labrador girl named Sassie. She was really nice and warm and fun. She had a lot of help from my human grandma and aunt. They stayed with Mama Sassie when we were born and after. We kept her busy. They loved us and took really good care of us when we were tiny little babies.

Mommy came to meet us when we were one day old, and she visited us every week until we were ready to come home. She had fun watching us grow. She laughed when we did cute labrador baby things. We always did cute labrador baby things.

Mommy took lots of pictures. Even though she did not know who I was for a long time, she knew I was there. I did not know she would be my mommy until later, but she seemed fun. I liked the attention; so did my brothers and sissies.

It can be hard to tell one cute black labrador baby from another. Mommy looks at our baby pictues and tries to figure out. She looks for the little white whiskers on my chin (Grandpa Bull had them, too). She thinks this is me; I think she is right.

For lots of weeks, we lived in a big box in the house. When we became bigger, we got to go outside, onto the big wooden porch, to play in the sun. I also liked to sleep in the big cloth puppy house that was there, or in a corner where my pesky sissies would not bother me.

Girls.

Next time, I will tell you about the day that I became Dewey.