Doggie

A stray dog was hanging around and the kids wanted to pet it. Papa helped Sarah get some cereal crumbs poured out on the ground and the dog started eating.

Apparently it ate a couple of pebbles because Sarah started asking, "Why the doggie eats wocks?"

Then Sarah picked up some pebbles in her hand and offered them to the dog, who declined to eat them. "Papa, why the doggie not eating wocks?"

Stephen, on the other hand, tried to pet the doggie from a place of safety as much as possible. Here he is hiding behind a wood stump at Tio Guero's tire shop. 

Sarah has previously been more fearful of getting too close to dogs, but she has overcome it. She asked me how to get this doggie to follow her around, so I had her feed it some cereal out of her hand a couple of times, which did the trick pretty well.

Sarah: I'm happy with the doggie. I like the doggie.