Archive for August, 2009

We inflated our little kiddie pool that we had bought and squeezed Zoey into the swimsuit that a lovely lady sent to us. I didn’t use a swim diaper because I figured it’s our own personal pool and if something horrific was to happen, it would be our own personal mess to deal with. She [...]

Thursday I was out having lunch with a good friend when Z was acting pretty tame so I decided it would be a good time to clip her nails. She had grabbed onto my neck earlier that morning and I almost shrieked when I felt her tiny little daggers sink into my neck. I got [...]

My little peanut is 18 weeks old. I can’t even believe it. Has it really been that long? August 14th was her 4 month birthday. Four months?? Seriously?! How? When?
She went to the doctor on Monday and she now weighs 13lb 13oz and is 24 inches long. Her head circumference is in the 50th percentile [...]

Just a quick update while I have a second.. I called Astro’s vet and he suggested I take the cone off if it is upsetting him and making him sick. I asked what to do about the wound and he casually said “Can you put a t-shirt or something on him?” and right then I [...]

The last week has been stressful and has only seemed to get worse. Astro has a horrible cut on his side and I’ve been having to keep an e-collar (cone) on his head to keep him from licking it so it will heal. Well, because he is scared to death of the e-collar and it [...]

This morning I dug out my 50mm lens from the bottom of the camera bag and I pulled out the tiny, light-weight beauty and just stared at it. I decided to take on the nerve wracking and monumental task of changing my camera lens. See, this is not a task to be taken lightly. Within [...]

The last couple of nights Z has been really hard to handle in the evenings. She cries, hasn’t been eating her last bottle of the evening and has been going to bed around 8 or 9 on what I think is an almost empty tummy and somehow, amazingly, sleeping through the night still. It sounds [...]