Friday, February 11, 2011

Snow, Snot, and Dogs

Back in January we got some snow, which was then covered in ice.

Everyone was super excited. Although Jordan was a little disappointed that the ice kept her from making snow angels.




Scott was off work for two days, then we went to Florida to visit his family and go to DISNEY :) Disney pics are later. I actually didn't have my camera for that visit so I used my mother-in-law's point and shoot. But that is neither here nor there. Once I actually load and edit those pictures I will post. But geez, Lord only knows when that will be. I am quite lazy with the photo editing these days.

This is our happy dog, before she arrived.

He tolerates her, but I am not sure if he really likes her. Her name is Mollie Dog and a month after her arrival I am still wondering what the heck I was thinking. Here she is in doggie jail for chewing on something or another. The chewing is about to drive me insane!

But she is sweet, and really good with the kids. She is small too; well, she is small compared to Twitch. But she is patient with the abuse she puts up with from the kids and seems to like it around here. She needs a little doggie tummy tuck though. Those sagging boobies are not very attractive.

Here are some more randoms from the last week or so (since my camera came back from the shop). Gosh, that was money well spent. The focus is so much better...not forward focusing anymore. But, I forgot to custom set my camera settings so the editing on these pics leaves much to be desired. But I have to show them anyway.
Playing playdoh on some rainy day, one of the many rainy days of this winter.




Big Boy mimiced me taking pictures. He was holding the playdoh to his eyes and saying "CHEESE!"

This picture is for two reasons: 1) so you can see that little girl is indeed finally GROWING HAIR!!!!!! and 2) so you can see little girl's reaction to her first time out. She had seen Big Boy in time out a few times before that, so she knew exactly what was happening.

Jordan is becoming quite the pro at writing. She wants me to write pages and pages of words so she can copy them. It is hard to think of 6-8 pages of different words for her to write! I mean, I guess I could write words like "and" or "the", but I was trying to think of words that she wants to learn to write, like "zebra" and "Mollie Dog."

She is also pretty intent on learning how to tie.

Lastly, one day last week the kids played in this tent tube for forever. Gosh, they had a ball. Even Mollie crawled through it with them.


Okay, that is it for now. God is good, as is evidenced by our houseful of people and animals :) Oh, and ignore all the snot you see in the pictures. I am not one to photoshop that stuff out. It is part of life with little ones, and mine seem to always be snotty.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

God Answers Prayer

As if I needed yet another small reminder of my Heavenly Father's care, he answers another prayer. Twitch (our big and old very dog) had a tumor on his ear. I took him to the vet a month or so ago and the doc said it was a classic tumor of which I cannot remember the name. He gave us a round of antibiotics just in case it was an infection, but said in a dog his age it is more than likely cancer. He didn't see any reason why it wouldn't be but thought he'd give meds a try just in case. I gave him meds and it shrank some, but not all the way. I scheduled surgery for Valentines Day and said a quick prayer for healing. Money is tight (isn't it always???) so I prayed he wouldn't need the surgery because I knew we couldn't pay for it. I also knew that the surgery would result in many dog fights between Twitch and Molly. Molly is super playful and always tugging at his ears. She drives Twitch crazy. While Twitch is pretty patient with Molly Dog (for the most part), I didn't see him putting up with her shenanigans after having part of his ear chopped off. I wasn't looking forward to breaking up fights. Let's face it, I do enough of that already, right? So today Scott and I were discussing it and I just decided to check his ears. To my surprise the tumor is GONE. GONE!!!! He ended the antibiotics a week ago. If anything it should have gotten bigger since then. Nope, gone. Thank you God, for answering even my quickie off the cuff prayers :)