Scottish Terrier Ears

As our Sunday School teacher today said, you have to look for moments to celebrate "In the Meantime". She meant that real life frequently happens on the side while whatever else you are doing that you think is important is happening. Many of our moments lately have been puppy inspired. It's great to watch Sparky's ears evolve on their own from floppy and almost labrador-like to the standard firm up-pointing Scotty ears.

Remember Sparky at 8 weeks. Note the floppy ears:



By his second weekend here, he was more adventurous, but the ears haven't done too much:



Now at 10 weeks, Sparky's left ear is up. The right one is at three quarters. It's a very good look on him:

I'll post again when the ears are all the way up.

Just for fun, we have below Sparky's first hole, Scout and the soccer ball and both pups relaxing.




And finally, because Steve asked, here's 10 seconds of Scout playing soccer in the back yard: