I like dogs

Vaughn has had a long standing fear of dogs. It stems from a bad experience with a hyper great dane puppy that just wanted to play. Ever since that fateful Christmas Vaughn has always been afraid of dogs and not just he doesn't like them I'm talking hysterical with fear and uncontrollable crying when near one. It has been a long process with us trying different approaches to get him past it but with nothing really working. Over Christmas my dad had a little fluffy dog named Banik at my Aunt's house on Christmas day and Vaughn started out scared but by the end of the night he was fine with the dog.

But I knew for sure the fear was over yesterday. Vaughn has been missing his best friend Levi, since we live on the other end of town we don't see him as much as we used to. Yesterday we had an all day playdate set up but the problem is that Levi has a beagle named Belle. Vaughn has never done well with Belle and it is usually a long visit to Levi's house. Thursday morning as we were getting ready to go I started my usual pep talk, "Vaughn remember that Levi has a dog, and that it's Belle's house so you can't cry and scream etc." usually these talks get me nowhere but this time his answer was to cut me off and say, "Mommy I like dogs now." I thought sure you do when there isn't one in sight but he walked into Levi's house said hi to Belle like they were old friends. It was so nice not to have to worry about keeping Belle away from Vaughn all day and that there was no crying and hysterics. Hopefully we are over the scared dog stage and can now go to our friends houses that have dogs with way less drama.

Yeah Vaughn!