Life just went from 0mph to 300mph in 2 seconds flat!

Rooney has been a joy and also quite a handful! Neither of us have ever raised our own puppy from 8 weeks of age, so it's been a journey to say the least. It's like having a newborn that can walk around and get into trouble already. We've been doing obedience training at home with a clicker, and some treats. He's not a very food motivated puppy, so we do have to time training just right between or long enough after meals. For the most part he seems to understand "sit" "lay down" "off" "leave it" and I'm working on "wait" especially when I open the door to his crate or ex-pen. He loves human attention, and he is skittish when he hears one of our neighbor dogs bark. We just pretend it doesn't bother us and we're hoping that rubs off on him. Sometimes I just distract him when he's all frozen stiff just to get his mind off of it. On top of watching everywhere he goes and making sure someone is paying attention to him every waking moment he's out of his pen, we are suddenly dealt with shopping for a new sofa (we've only had the one sofa since before we ever met), and getting our broken master shower torn down and remodeled, which also includes the fun process of hardware shopping. Oh, and soccer season started for Dylan again a couple of weeks ago. Such chaos for such a normally chill household. Next week, I'm going out of town for business--hooray! Poor husband. :)