An Early Birthday Gift

Last Saturday Clayton came home (we have an apartment now, more on that later) with an early birthday gift for me - a mini-pinscher puppy, and he´s just a month and a half old. He is of course one of the cutest things in the world (see photos below) and quite the charmer. When we are out and about, women of all ages flock to him and kiss him profusely. His name is Aureliano. I named him after the main character in the book 100 Years of Solitude, my favorite book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who happens to be a Colombian author. So, it seemed a fitting name. He has vaccines and papers, which means bringing him home to the states when the time comes shouldn´t be an issue.
So, here he is: