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Mad Max update: I tell ya - little Max is quite the handful. I had forgotten what having a baby around is like! Yesterday he disappeared for awhile - this was AFTER he had been neutered that morning. We found him SITTING IN THE TRASH CAN in the kitchen! Only his head was sticking out. Looking like it's totally normal for him to be sitting here in the garbage can! Like, why are you guys looking at me like that?! THEN - another problem cropped up in the evening. (This is rather "X" rated, so if you're easily offended - better stop reading here!) Seems Max decided to get amorous with a pile of laundry in the laundry room. Again, this was AFTER he had been neutered that morning. Well, to make a long (snicker) story short - it wouldn't get short! It was .... stuck! The swelling wouldn't go away! We ended up calling the emergency vet at about 10 pm. Solution (after much snickering on the part of the vet & myself) was to rub Vaseline on it! This morning we found him still a little 'swollen'! So another call to our regular vet, and yep, the emergency vet was right. Only now I'm supposed to 'massage it' after I put Vaseline on it to try and get it back where it belongs! (If a dog could smile....snort!) I knew there was a reason I've always had FEMALE dogs in the past! Men are such a pain and totally embarrassing! Oh, by the way - I don't have any pictures to share of this little adventure....snicker-snicker! *********************** Parade Fall 2002 You gotta love small town parades!
Here's the boys getting ready to decorate their Cub Scouts float for the Rockridge homecoming parade.
Almost ready to roll!
What's a parade without a marching band?
And a tin foil rocket for the Rockridge Rockets!
Here's the boys float, pulled by a REAL Army Humvee! All the boys were so impressed! This picture was taken at the beginning of the parade when all the boys were actually sitting ON the float. By the end of the parade they were all walking, picking up any candy that had been missed! ***************************** A Woman's Personal Hygiene Story October 10, 2002 (can you believe it, where did the year go?) Anyway - So tonight the boys and I were getting ready to go swimming at the fitness center. I had a little ziploc baggie with a few 'personal hygiene products' in it and my youngest asked what I had in the bag. "Just stuff, girl stuff" ( my usual response to questions such as that) Then the oldest chimes in, "I know what's in there!" (think, think....what to do now....what to say????) "Oh, well what do you think it is?" He responds, "Woman's things that you put in your underwear" ----as my youngest son is now snickering about the whole situation----- So now I figure it can't get any worse than this so I ask, "How do you know this?" "TV!" Television is how he knows this. Commercials! And the thing is, we strictly limit the boys TV time. Only a few hours on weekends and only during the week if a special show is on like Discovery (Ok, or Monster Garage!-But that's on Discovery too!) And the kid still knows what woman's personal hygiene products are from commercials! And he even knows you stick them in your underwear!!!!! ************************************ Optometrist Think maybe we need a new eye doctor....
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******************************** Week in Pictures October 16, 2002 Frankenstein plays Mozart
Notice the excellent fingering technique and the neck bolts! HA Computer Geeks or Would you like your computer to go?
The kids built a computer in a box! A cardboard box. And it works! They had a little help from their dad, the Computer Doctor - but not much. Dogs in Paradise
Little Maxie has found his new favorite place! Happiness Thought experiments from the late philosopher Robert Nozick: If a genie offered you the possibility of living the rest of your life in a state of sublime happiness, but you had to be asleep the whole time and dreaming, never to taste reality again, would you take it? How much extra happiness would you agree to if you had to lose a unique talent, like athletic or musical giftedness, or if you had to give up 30 IQ points? To take an extreme case, would you agree to a lifelong increment in happiness on the condition that you would be transformed into a pig? Would you agree to become happier if it meant that one of your siblings had never been born or one of your children? The conclusion: Maybe happiness is not our only goal, perhaps not even our main goal, in life. I thought about this and I think maybe we don't realize how important compassion for others is in our lives.
******************************** Fall October 26, 2002 The boys did a little yard work today- Yes, there are 2 boys & 2 dogs somewhere under this shower of leaves.
Of course little Max had to get in on the action. He spent the whole time trying to let the other dogs know he's boss! He's the little blur in the picture below.
It's funny, the dogs love the leaves as much as the kids! And at the end of the day, everyone's tired! ************************ HALLOWEEN October 30, 2002 Halloween is upon us, so is the mad rush to get costumes put together and pumpkins carved.
My youngest won't eat anything but peanut butter & jelly sandwiches......and pumpkin guts! And whoever came up with this new way of carving super cool looking pumpkins didn't exactly have 'kid friendly' in mind! Mom always ends up finishing....
And as far as costumes - you pretty much have to have 2 anymore. One for the school party that's easy on/easy off. And then one for Halloween night that takes an hour to get on and is all bloody and gory!
(I think the best part of Halloween is stealing the kids candy when they aren't looking!) ************************** Halloween - part II So like I mentioned in my Halloween post - you really have to have a couple costumes. One for school that's easy on and off. And one for Halloween night that's super cool and takes forever to get on. So here's a couple pictures of my youngest and his super cool mummy costume. My oldest son was the headless horseman.
THE MUMMY totally freaked out all of the dogs. Indie was so scared that my husband couldn't get her in the garage! It took an hour & 2 torn up sheets to wrap up the mummy!
It should have been called 'trick or freeze'! The temperature was down to 25 degrees. My oldest son about froze and then he stepped in a puddle and got wet feet. I thought I was going to have to give him a piggy back ride home the last few blocks. When we got home we had to put his feet in warm water - poor kid! News on the Max front Max's new favorite game is getting chased by the 'swiffer'. (the kitchen floor sweeper thingie) He runs around the house growling and barking like a mad Max! You pretty much have to chase him a couple times a day or else he's just a wild little puppy biting your heels every time you walk anywhere. And he's such a pig. A few nights ago he ate about 3/4 cup of dog food and then he grabbed a potato skin out of the garbage (and Mark gave him bites of steak too!) He was SO FULL! You could have popped him with a pin. I mean we were actually a little worried for awhile. Then last night he tore open an old pizza box that didn't get taken outside and ate an entire piece of deep pan meat lovers pizza! I do believe he has gained some weight since he came here to live...... Thanks for stopping by! |
