Thanks guys. It's a trip. I've never had a puppy this young -- we brought him home at 7 weeks (I don't recommend it). But it's been amusing in its own way.

For one thing, seeing the profound changes that occur in awareness between the 7th and 8th week -- nothing short of amazing. He went from focusing on nothing to exploring and amusing himself with toys in that week.

Ariel's agility equipment is set up around the back yard. One of the apparatuseseses is a teeter totter. At 8 weeks Breeze was fascinated with the teeter and would walk the length of it before he had enough body weight to tip it. We had a rug drying right at the tipping point of the teeter and Breeze walked right up to the midway point. Normally nothing would have happened, but this time the rug was enough added weight and the teeter tottered. Breeze wasn't frightened. He was thrilled. We were worried. Now he wanted to do it all the time. We had to lower the teeter to its lowest point. Now he will dash around the yard doing nothing....and for no apparent reason other than fun, he will run the teeter. Hilarious to watch a dog no bigger than a minute doing the teeter.

Further -- you know that scene where Fred Astaire is dancing around a room and steps up on a chair, steps futher up to its back, and then tips the chair over and walks gracefully down the back of the now-tipped over chair?...

...Breeze figure out that he could do that with a lightweight chaise lounge that we had set up in the back yard. Sometimes he hops up on the lounge to nap. Mostly he hops up on the lounge, walks up the back of it until it tips over, then he walks off the now-tipped lunge chair and lets it flip back aright behind him.

Heaven, I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When dancing up the back of the lounge chair seat.