Today is five years to the day that we said goodbye to Bozo, the second of our original pair and still very much a part of our daily conversation and memories. Whenever we need to blame someone for some absent-minded miscue, we recite a line Emily immortalized when she was about 2: "Maybe Bozo did it!"



That's him on the right, thick as thieves with his big sister who stayed with us a year or so longer.

I was aware of the anniversary when we decided to get Zoey, but I was also glad that we have today just to remember him. Nobody- two-legged or four- can substitute for anyone else, but they can fill holes in hearts in their own unique ways.

Love to you, and your best of friends, present and absent.