Gorgeous!!
Funny story, some years ago my dad had a pacemaker put in. He wasn't feeling well going into the procedure and we were worried about him. Afterwards, the family is in the hospital room with him and he asks everybody except for me to leave. I became nervous. He asked me to come sit beside him on the bed. I'm expecting him to share some really scary news...
"Son," he says, looking around to make sure nobody could hear him. "I'm getting a dog for your mother."
She was very sick/struggling with depression, and he thought it would cheer her up, nevermind the fact that she hated dogs. So a couple weeks later he brings home a newborn shihtzhu, holding her in the palm of his hand. The look on mom's face was priceless (anger). Anyway, as time went on mom grew to love the doggy, but the joke was always that she was "mom's dog" -- no no no, she was definitely "dad's dog."
To this day, they are inseparable. Mom passed over 5 years ago now, so dad and the pup live alone together. He has often told me he wouldn't be alive today if not for little Amber. I honestly fear the day Amber passes on. But it's so cute, their relationship. You mentioning how this doggy was for your daughter but became a source of happiness for your whole family made me remember that story.
"Man's best friend," they say. It couldn't be more true, IMHO.