Mommy, can we keep him?

We have had a huge upswing in dog boarding over the last month. On the weekend that we had seven dogs at our house, I took the kids over to my friend Amy's house for a party. Her Corgi had recently had puppies, and Rand had a great time holding them. He liked to pick one up, hold it a moment, put it down, and pick up another one.

At one point, Rand looked at me while holding a little fuzzball of a puppy and said, "Mommy, can we please take him home?"