aww that dog is so cute! my dad has a lab that is now probably 12 years old or so. when it was a puppy, that thing would be SO energetic, then it would sleep all of a sudden and be out for an hour or so.
the only thing i would recommend is to go outside with the dog every few hours and be with the dog while it goes to the bathroom. this way it will learn where the door is so that it will go there when it has to go to the bathroom. we just got a new puppy in the summer and it took a few months, but now when she has to use the potty she walks right to the back door.
also, what we are doing with this puppy is, when we go to sleep at night we put it in a little cage to sleep. t hen in the morning we let her out. we are only doing this for now, so that eventually it will just go in the cage area to sleep on its own, without us having to even close the cage. at first she barked and whined for about 10 minutes when we went to sleep, but now she pretty much walks in there on her own and keeps quiet after we go to sleep.
however, you may not want to even do anything like that. we are doing that because with our dog that passed this past summer, he would get into stuff in the middle of the night. we didn't want that happening again.
