Brandon's POV
"Ahh my little monkey were all alone!" I hold lyric up in the air making her show that lightning smile of hers. I bring her back down to sit on my hip and she instantly points to the window showing the backyard. "But daddy promised mummy you wouldn't get dirty today and go in the dirt" I tell her nicely but she lets her bottom lip out making me crack immediately. "Alright, alright, but we have to change out of your pretty dress so mummy doesn't know what we did" I say making her smile before going upstairs to her room where I change her into an old outfit and then take her back down the stairs to the back yard. As soon as I open the door rusty is way too excited cause he didn't get taken for a walk this morning to get all his energy out. "We'll have to take the puppy for a walk this afternoon after your nap won't we?" I question but Lyrics eyes are just fixated on the sandpit. I laugh at her tickling her stomach gently before taking her over and placing her right in the middle where she screams with excitement. I decide to play a little bit of fetch sigh rusty while she is happily entertained with her sand toys.
After being outside for a good 2 hours Lyric is well and truly past the stage of 'dirty'. It literally looks like I just poured a bucket of dirt and sand all over her. "Alrighty little miss monkey we have to give you a bath to clean you up" I say jumping her in my arms but her smile immediately disappears after hearing the work bath. Obviously she isn't feeling a bath today but it's definitely not debatable with the look she has going on, she'd make more of a mess just walking around like this than Rusty would on a good day. "Don't look at me like that!" I turn my head to look away knowing I'll give in straight away if I look at her, as I make my way upstairs to the bathroom. She's not even one and she already knows how to get past me, but we're gonna have to fix that before she gets to an age where that could be disastrous.
"Yayy!" I sing as I lift her out of the bath onto the mat before reaching for her towel. "See that bath was so fun!" I exaggerate wrapping the towel around her drying her lightly before lifting her up into my arms and making my way out of the bathroom and into her room. "Here we go pretty girl" I say placing her on the change table, grabbing the powder and a nappy. I just leave her in her nappy taking her downstairs to her high hair so her dress doesn't get her lunch all over it before we have to go out in public. I decided to take her to look at puppies today since sammy as been onto me for weeks about getting Lyric her own because she loves Rusty so much but he doesn't want to share him. Callie said we can but have to wait till lyric is old enough to pick her own but I mean there's not harm on look right?
After Lyric has finished with her mashed peas and pumpkin which for the first time she seemed to actually enjoy, I offer her some banana but she pushed it away without any hesitation. I laugh before wiping down her face and highchair the. Lift her out taking her to the lounge where I get her dress and slip it over her head, matching some nice white sandals with it making her look even more adorable that she already is. "No crawling around until your in you pyjamas missy" I joke but she just looks at me like I'm crazy. "Ready to go look at some puppies?" I ask in a hyped tone and she smiles, clapping her hands before pointing to the back door where rusty is sitting at the door licking it in hopes that someone will let him in. I laugh "Not that puppy baby, these ones are more little and your size" I explain while grabbing my keys and wallet before picking her up from the lounge and head out locking up the house behind me. I buckle in a very excited Lyric who just keeps clapping with joy making it very hard to get her arms in the straps but I can't help but smile at how happy she is.
When we arrive at the pet store Lyric squeals as we walk I and she can see all the puppies that are around the store. "Hey how are you today? Can I help you with anything today?" The nice lady who works here asks with a very enthusiastic smile on her face.
"Ahh yeah, maybe, I was just wanting to look around at some puppies today. Not sure if we're gonna actually buy today though" I tell her sounding a little nervous with her smile staying just as big as when she walked over. Nobody is this happy to be at work, no matter where it is.
"Alrighty well I can show you some puppies we have available today and if any of them click or you feel a connection with any after having a play we can put them on hold for you but only for a week and then we have to put them back on the market" she explains in detail leading up to the first pen on puppies. "Do you already have dog?"
I lift Lyric higher up on my hip cause she's squirmed her way down a bit before answering "ah yeah we have a border collie"
"Is he good with other dogs?" Geeze what is this 20 fucking questions. If I had a vicious dog I wouldn't keep it around my kids or try to get another one for it to attack.
"Yeah he always goes to the dog park. So all dogs, any breed or size, no problem with him" I say trying to control Lyric who is now wriggling and kicking her legs trying to get down on the floor. But I look down and it's absolutely filthy. There's no way she's crawling around on there where her hands can touch God knows what type of germs. D get sick.
"Great! Then finding the perfect new one to join the family should be a jefe of cake then" she claps making me jump which makes Lyric stop squirming. "So we have this little lot" she stops motioning her hands towards the little lot of poodles.
"I hate poodles" I straight out tell her not hiding how I feel at all. I just have never liked them, always thinking of them as dogs for little old lady's that use them to show off in pets shows to win money.
I see her face struggle to keep a smile at my attitude towards the dog making me feel satisfied to see that bloody smile at least half gone, that was getting on my last nerve too. "Well we have plenty more to look at" she informs me regaining herself again. "What about these little cuties?"
I look over into the pen to see some pretty good looking golden retrievers. Now don't get me wrong I absolutely love golden retrievers but I just feel like everyone owns one and I want a different one...the perfect one for my little girl. "Anything else?" I ask hopefully. She sighs before walking to the next pen where I see the one and also see Lyric spread a smile across her face. I think we found it.
"Samoyed" Is all she tells me I think now losing hope on us, but little does she know I'm absolutely set.
To Be Continued...
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Love Mac xx
