Sariah at 5 Months

(This is a picture of Sarah and Sariah at 7 weeks and at 5months)

Sariah is still all puppy and growing, growing, growing.  She bounds around, runs into walls and likes to jump up when she's excited to see us.  We find her in the cutest sleeping poses, and we are apparently very fond of those moments as evidenced in our photos.  She is still dealing with some teeth, and although most have grown in, the chewing continues.  Her favorite chew things are water bottles and sticks from outside.  If she's especially bored or wanting attention, she'll bring several sticks in and shred them.  We had to stop allowing sticks in the house.  Sariah had her first trail experience near our house, and it went well. She's learning "heel" pretty well, and we've used her new collar's beep sound to train her to come to us from a distance.  This will be beneficial when we're hiking and she gets out ahead or off trail.  She does very, very well with that command.  We're proud puppy parents.  We're still keeping her away from other dogs and populated areas until next month when her shots are completed, so any little outing is a joy for her.  She had her first camping outing on our Youth Conference camping trip. She loved the open area, and the kids at Youth Conference loved hanging out with her.  The worst damage yet was done during that Youth Conference weekend on Sunday.  Sariah had had enough of us being in and out and gone for long periods of time.  She dug us a nice little trench in the living room carpet.  What can you do?  We're still happy it hasn't been the furniture (and that we hadn't replaced our carpet yet).  All in all, she's been pretty good about what she chooses to gnaw on.  We can't wait to get her out socializing with other dogs and running the trails.  It won't be long now!