!!!!!!!!!!FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!

Garrett is finally home again!!!!
I am soooo Happy!!!!

He had a very long day and is now sleeping. We did not tell Bethany he was coming so she was very surprised to see him when we picked him and Cody up at the airport,.... She said GARRETT and ran up and gave him a big hug. They had fun together in the car on the way home and they played for about half and hour after they got here. Then it was time for PJ's and a book. Neither one of them lasted very long after I turned the lights out.

Garrett has a very bad cough and a fever. I hope he gets better VERY soon and that it isn't something he passes on to anyone else in the house.

Pics are ones that Cody took in the airport while waiting for a flight.

Every one else in the house is asleep,....my turn now.

Shadow :(

http://www.petplace.com/cats/aural-hematoma-in-cats/page1.aspx#

Shadow's left ear has been swollen for awhile. We took her to the vet today and found out she has a hematoma( see link above for description and pic). They had to do surgery on her: put her out, lance and drain her ear, then stitch it up. They may or may not bandage it as well. Apparently this was caused by her shaking her head due to irritation from ear mites. The shaking caused a blood vessel in her ear to burst and fill her ear with blood. It is very painful and looks it.

I called the vet an hour or so ago and she was still out. Hopefully we will be able to pick her up this evening, not tomorrow, but we will have to wait and see.

Now I have to treat both cats for ear mites. I have no clue how they got them in the first place though since they are both indoor only cats since they are completely declawed. Unless it is possibly a thing they had when we brought them home from the shelter. That has been almost a year ago though so,.....

I'm sad for her,...I wish we had known sooner so she wouldn't have had to go through this. Hopefully we can get Bethany to leave her alone when she comes home. Bethany LOVES her and is always petting and hugging (and occasionally laying on) her.

In happier news it's now only 3 more days till I get to see Garrett!!! I am looking forward to that like you wouldn't believe.

Bethany has been taking herself to the bathroom lately, she still needs help wiping though. We are so proud of her. When we started potty training I did not think that she would pick it up so quickly,...I was all prepared to have 2 kids in diapers. Boy was I wrong to underestimate her! I think the last time I bought diapers(for Bethany) was almost 2 months ago and we still have half a box left,...I don't think she has worn even one in the past month. :)

countdown to all things great and wonderful

9 days till Garrett gets here

19 days till Lily is born

30 days till Garrett's 5th B-day

35 days till Thanksgiving

42 days till my 26th B-day

64 days till Christmas (which is also my Dad's B-day)

71 days till New Years Day!

I could go on I suppose, like,.....

115 days until Valentines Day,......

141 days until my sister's 25th B-day,.....

199 days until Cody's 27th B-day,...........

155 days until the 4th of July,........

275 days until Bethany's 3rd B-day,........

329 days until Cody & I's 3rd wedding anniversary,.......

I guess I could continue even further but then where do you stop?

I'm looking forward to spending all of the special days with my little family and all the days in between because if you think about it every day is special. Right? I'm loving being a Wife and Mommy these days!

Missing my family. If you read this, know that I love you!

Hope you have special things you're looking forward to in your near future~

randomness (is that a word?)

Last night I had trouble sleeping. Don't know why, guess I'm just so big that being comfortable is only a relative thing. This morning Bethany got woke up at 6 by Cody's alarm clock :( Thankfully she went back to sleep so after he went to work I did too. About 9 I woke to the scent of root beer and rolled over to find Bethany laying next to me busily applying about 20 layers of lip gloss.

She's a nut. Just a few min ago she was walking towards the hallway when she got fairly close to me she stopped and fell down in slow motion, lay there groaning for a min or 2 then rolled over and extended her hand acting like she couldn't get get up by herself. I helped her up and she said "thank-you". She's learning to exaggerate things and its pretty funny.

Garrett will be here so soon!!! I'm counting down the days, only 12 more now! We all miss him and are really looking forward to him being here again. I'm trying to plan special activities we can do together even with a new baby in the house. I know he will really enjoy playing with Bethany in the new playroom too. I'm sure the Lite Brite and the K'nex will get plenty of use as well.

Cody installed a new outlet in the garage yesterday so we could plug in our new freezer. It should be ready to fill now. I'm so blessed to have him for so many reasons. We went to a gun range in the area last week and bought him a new rifle and scope for the upcoming deer season. If all goes well there will be plenty of deer meat in the freezer sometime next month.

I'm so ready for the baby's arrival, not just to meet her (although that is the most important reason) but also for more selfish reasons. I can't decided which I'm looking forward to most, sleeping on my tummy, enjoying a glass of sweet red wine, or,....well we won't go there ;)

We got a diaper bag, courtesy of Nanny, (Thanks Debbie!) on Saturday. So now I think we are completely ready for Lily to arrive. I plan on packing it with a few necessities today.

I also plan on surprising Cody by cleaning out the garage a little. Also on the list for today is making a grocery list, putting dishes away, and folding laundry. Wish me luck!

Hope you are having a good week!

How they change!!!

For Garrett

Garrett gets to look at my blog and see the pics I post. I have posted alot of pics of just Bethany lately since he's not here to take pics of. He recently asked where the pics of him were. So here are Garrett pics, they re old of course but I don't think that will matter to him.


We love you Garrett!!! :)

things are coming along

Bethany is napping & Cody is resting, and it's 57 and cloudy outside so I thought it would be a perfect time to make a hot pot of tea and write a post.

This is a long weekend for Cody,....he has today off. There are perks for being a gov. employee :)

We have really tacked the house hard the past 2 days and finally we are almost done. We now have a completely empty 3rd bedroom(previously a storeroom of sorts), an organized garage with a new (just delivered yesterday) chest freezer, which I'm totally excited to have btw, a room just for my exercise equipment, and a big pile of stuff to go to Goodwill. Hello tax write off!

A little later today we will be moving the toy box, train table, and big toys into the 3rd bedroom and it will officially be the play room until Lily is 6 months old, then we will rearrange once again and it will become the girls room. The kids bedroom will be getting a bookshelf, and a lg amount of misc boxes and bins will be making their way into our attic storage. We will also be making a trip to Goodwill providing it doesn't start raining again.

I feel like we are much closer to being ready for Lily to arrive and that's a very good thing since I'm scheduled to be induced on Nov 10th. I have washed all of her clothes, sheets, & blankets as well as the cloth liners from the car seat and swing. Now I just have to put it all away, or back together, whichever the case may be.

I've made a ton of sausage balls and a few loaves of banana (sooo goood!) bread for the freezer. And plan to stock up on more easy fix food items for after we come home from the hospital.

Garrett will be here in 19 days! Cody & I are soo excited to see him again! Bethany is still asking and/or talking about him every day she will be thrilled to see him too.

At what point do you say that your child is completely potty trained? I believe Bethany is. She hasn't had any type of an accident at all in well over a week, not even at night. I don't know what to do with the 40+ size 5 diapers we have left, she's not using them at all. It's going to be a looong time before Lily will be that big.

I still have to buy a diaper bag and size 1 diapers. I already bought newborn and size 2 diapers. Don't ask me why I did that, I really don't know. My hormones must be interfering with brain function :)

Rob

Rob, I miss you!

Misc

Here are some misc pictures that were taken this month.

Girly Girl

Bethany's a Girly Girl

The various faces of Bambi

Bethany LOVES Bambi.

It is the first thing she asks for every morning.

She really gets in to the various moods in the movie.

She will get excited.

Happy.

Sad.

Confused.

Afraid.

Giggly.

You name it,....Bambi has it all.

She makes faces that show how she is feeling.

It's more fun to watch her watch the movie than to watch it with her.

A weekend at Papa & Nanny's

We spent last weekend at Papa and Nanny's house. Papa had got a bunch of geese decoys and they were all sitting out in the yard. Bethany loved them. She kept calling them chickens or ducks though. I just got her to say goose this morning while looking at the pictures. Bethany also played with Coco and fed grass to some of the calves. I took a ton of pics. Click on them to see them better.