So, my neighbor across the street is trying to rehome her 9-month old German Shepherd/Husky mix and she's willing to give him to us for free, with all of his stuff because their older dog doesn't get along with him.

Well... we have a 7 week old baby. I really, really, really want a dog. I grew up with a lab/shepherd mix that my parents got when I was very small and it was so amazing growing up with pets. I want LO to have that same kind of life. We had already agreed that we are going to get a dog, but we were going to wait until next year when DH comes back from deployment and we were thinking a much smaller dog, like a Corgi....

Am I nuts for wanting to convince DH to get this dog? Am I nuts for wanting to get a 120lb German Shepherd with a newborn? It's really okay to tell me I am.

Oh, and the family the dog is coming from has a 2 year old little boy, so the dog has been around small kids.