He is just purely delighted to go bounding into the world each day, to greet each of us with huge grins, merry enthusiasm, invitations to play... So, we have to clean up the wet, nasty newspapers from the floor, and hustle him out for his first official walk of the day... We have to delay our breakfasts to play a while, and curb the happy puppy teeth from nipping our hands and heels... We have to turn away when he jumps up on us... We have to trade actual toys for plastic bags, odd socks, shoes,... Sign in to see full entry.