Could Have Killed Him

As you all know by now, Tucker was born Feb.11th. After he was born, his blood wasn't saturating properly, so they had to keep him in the NICU for a bit. I told Marsh and Emily that if they needed anything they could call me. On Valentine's Day, I got a phone call from Marsh at 7:30am. When I said hello, the first words out of his mouth is "We've got an emergency". I was instantly wide awake as my thoughts went right to Tucker. Then he told me that he'd found a kitten in the middle of his livingroom floor and it wasn't doing so good. He asked me to go over and help with the kittens, get them revived and what not while they went up to see Tucker.
When I got over there, Jezibelle had a total of 3 kittens, and they weren't doing too well. Dave and I began cleaning the kittens off and trying to get them stimulated to get their blood flowing better. It took some time, and hard work, but by the time Marsh and Emily got home, the kittens were nursing, Jezibelle had a total of 4 babies and all were doing well.
When things slowed down, I told Marsh that I could have killed him for making me panic a little about Tucker. He chuckled and said that he and Emily both thought about what he'd said after we got off the phone, and that he was sorry. I told him that I'll never let him live it down, and that it'd be fun to put the story into Tucker's Scrapbook. The funny thing is Emily was more worried about the kittens lives.

A New Me

About 2 weeks ago, Dave let me pick up a workout DVD from Wal-Mart. We thought it'd be fun to start working out and losing weight before we get FAMILY pictures taken in April. This is the DVD I got, and it came with 2 bands, so I make Dave workout with me. Yesterday I gave it a try, they let you chose if you want to work the upper body, abs, lower body or the entire body. Because I want to lose a lot of weight fast, I chose to do the full body routine. The first time I did this, I had a 2yr old working out with me, and it was quite the workout. Later that evening, Dave said he'd give it a try and so we did the workout. By the end of the 10 min, he was winded, huffing and puffing.

This morning I woke up and can really feel my abs. They're pretty sore and it really hurts to laugh, but I think this is something that I can get into and do regularly. They also have one that is a dance routine, I've considered getting that one as well, and may just do so depending on the results I get from this DVD. I haven't really been excited to workout since Dan and Chrystal got me the Gazelle for Christmas (which I'm trying to get into the house to use again) and the Water Aerobics at Gold's Gym. Hopefully I can start feeling better about myself, I'll admit, it really bothers me to look in a mirror and see my spare tire, I yearn to be thin again. I'll keep y'all posted on what progress I make. Gotta run for now.

No Such Luck

Since I have posted Tika on Craigslist, I've had a total of 2 people call about her. The first person called an hour after I posted the ad, she was looking for a dog for her husband, and seemed pretty excited to see Tika. They were supposed to drive from St. Anthony to see her, and possibly take her home. I never heard from them, and don't know if I will. Today, a woman called from Arco looking for a "buddy" for her 8yr old Black Lab. I told her all about Tika, and that we've got Dante, whom we'd preferr went with Tika because they're so close. The woman sounded interested, said that she has 3 acres for them to run and play on, and that she'd talk to her husband and call back when they were in the area. I told her that she's welcome to bring her dog along to see how they interacted together, she liked that idea but hadn't called back yet either.

Although it's a little discouraging, and it still breaks my heart to do this, but I know it's for the best. I can't help but feel like I'm letting them down, betraying them if you will, I know I'm not, if anything, I'm improving the quality of their lives. I really hope 1 of 2 things happens, we get into a place of our own where we can have them, or somebody follows through on taking them. I'm tired of them living like prisoners.

Family Day??

Today we went to COSTCO with Mom, Dad, Marsh and Emily. While we were there, Mom picked up a box of Chicken Cordon Bleu for dinner. She followed the directions on cooking them, but as I was cutting mine up to share with Kaitlynn, I noticed mine was quite raw. That sparked everyone's curiosity as to weather theirs was done or not, finding that they weren't we finished cooking them. While wating for them to come back out of the oven, I pulled out my camera, and played around, entertaining Kaitlynn and teaching her how to use my camera. This is the first photo she did on her very own. The camera was zoomed in, and it's of her plate of Mango.

Of course, that's not really a bad picture considering it's taken by a 2yr old, we'll see how she does in the future, right now, we'll keep her on the Wii, she's great at golf. After dinner, everyone parted ways, and while I'm waiting for Dave to finish with Dante and Tika, I thought I'd check a few things out online.

My Baby

Sunday, while Marsh and Emily were here, Marsh decided to see if Mason would sit in the car seat. Obviously, he would. Nellie came over, they brought her without her "Satellite Dish". She's allowed to be around the other dogs, but still isn't supposed to lick her wound. Karma is missing her, and has now taken out her "playful agression" on Mason.

I am working with her on her behavior, and starting in March, she attends Obedience school. With any luck, it will change her attitude and her agressive behavior. One thing I have seen with Mason, is he likes to sit like that on things. I've caught him too many times sitting on steps like that, and I've always thought it was fun. I just thought I'd share this photo with everyone.