And so it begins...

As we were driving home from the park today, Harrison said something to me that I expected to hear eventually, but that I was definitely not quite ready to hear yet:

"Mom, I want a dog."

As something of a pet-hater, I knew this was probably the beginning of a battle that I'm eventually going to lose. I don't know why I was so surprised, in light of this picture I took at my parents' house last week.

Wish me luck.