Bad, bad dog

First of all, Jenna was baptized this morning, and she did really well. She didn't spit up and she didn't make a peep through the whole service. She fell asleep, so that helped. :) She actually wore the same dress I wore when I was baptized as a baby! It fit her perfectly. We didn't get any good pictures, so I will have to put her back in it and take some more pictures. :)

Like I said--not a good picture, but it shows the dress. My mom has a picture of me wearing the dress as a baby, and I wish we had a scanner so I could post it.

Jenna got a jumperoo at a shower, but we just started using it yesterday. We thought she was too small or too young before, but she LOVES it! We thought we just didn't have enough stuff sitting around in our living room, so wanted to add one more toy.

She loves the jumperoo so much, in fact, that she wears herself out.

That is definitely a rare occurance for her to fall asleep while playing, but I just had to grab the camera. :)

Jenna loves her bath time, but I always think she's so cute when she's wrapped in her towel afterwards. I had to get a picture of her in her favorite towel...actually, it's MY favorite towel because it's thick enough to dry her off. Most of those baby towels are soooooo thin!

OK, now why the title about the bad, bad dog? After the baptism this morning, we came back to our house with family a couple of friends and had lunch. Everything was fine until our dog BIT OUR FRIEND'S KID. (Cindy, again I am soooooooooo sorry) I'm not talking about a little playful nip, but enough to draw blood. To give a little history, our dog is the sweetest dog ever, but he has always been aggressive with kids. I was thinking he had never actually bitten a kid before, but really, upon further discussion, we remembered that he has. It's always been in a situation when we was trying to play and more or less scared the kid but didn't cause any damage. What happens is that he sees kids playing at his level, and he tries to play with them the same way he tries to play with other dogs. Sometimes though, I think he isn't really playing as much as he is defending something (though I'm not sure what it is that he's defending). Today, poor kid was just playing and being a kid, minding his own business, when the stupid dog lunged at him, barked, and nipped his face. He wasn't as phased as most kids would be, and his parents were too nice about it, but we felt so bad and this cannot EVER happen again. It should have never happened to begin with. Usually we leave him outside when there are kids in the house, but we can't have a dog that bites kids. We just can't--it's unacceptable. For the time-being, it would be easy to keep him away from kids--we'd simply put him outside when they're over. Right now, he has absolutely no problems with Jenna, but soon she will be crawling, walking, and doing things that provoke him. We used to think by the time that happened, he would be used to her and wouldn't do anything. Now, we're not so sure. So, this is where we run into the question of what to do about this. Given our dog's health history and current health maintenance, no one in their right mind would ever take him. So either we keep him away from kids and wait until the day he bites Jenna, or we put him down now. Anyone who knows us knows how much we love him--he has been our baby for 6 1/2 years! But the reality is he is not getting better about the kids thing. In fact, it's almost as if he's gotten worse. I have never seen a dog who is otherwise so sweet become so aggressive around kids. It's always in a crowd too, because he seems to like to be in the center of a crowd. So, what do we do? We talked about the possibility of some type of training that may help. The way he is though, I don't know that it would. We have pretty much accepted the fact that we will have to put him down some day. He is too sick to live a long life. We already know he has bladder stones again and will need surgery. So all this combined makes it clear in our heads that we should put him down. In our hearts it's a different story. We have a problem here...what to do.