Finally Picts!

My baby just before surgery.

Dan's final cast

Happy Birthday Blackie

Blackie is now officially 13 years old. It's hard to believe but 13 years ago we moved to the farm with 2 squirelly pups. Life was so simple back then. And they're was no slowing my 2 pups down. Now you when let Blackie out with out a leash, he's so old he can't go anywhere. He's put on a few pounds since the days of running 45 miles per hour. Now he just goes from the various beds and the couch. On nice days he likes to lay down in the yard with Anna and soak up the sun. He has developed a kidney disease but a special diet and pills seem to be helping alot with that. He loves the constant companionship of the boys. And his favorite place in the whole world is my waterbed. Him and Anna fight over it sometimes, or they just leave no room for Dan & I.

Updates

Little Dan is excited his cast is off! He still has 3 weeks before he can play catch. Although I've already caught him.
Eddie Ray had his surgery. Man what a trooper. He had an IV with no medicine to numb it. Then he went into surgery all by himself. Big eyed but no tears. He had a tough time not puking after surgery. But we had a blast all week long hanging out together. Although I will admit I'm okay with being done with "SpongeBob Squarepants".
Ricky will not have surgery, if tubes are needed due to his age, they will numb the ear, then slit it and put the tubes in.
After a long day in the hospital on Monday for Eddie Ray's Surgery, 8:00am to 6:30pm.
I had to turn around and take Ricky out to the ER. at 7:30pm apparently he caught a bad virus and had an infected ear. So I've not been lonely this week.
I wish I got paid to sit in Doctor's offices. The last few months I would've made a killing!

Happy Birthday Anna

Yea our beloved Anna turned 10 in January and I forgot to note it. Anna was from my first litter of pups. Her bark sounded like a quack so I quickly dubbed her Duckie. She was part of a very energetic litter. They stayed very busy. Her mother Nala wouldn't lay down to have the pups. She ran really fast in circles as they flew out of her. Dan & I spent the afternoon catching pups.
So at 10 years old she loves to lounge on the waterbed. Plays well with cats. She has one fun trait, she bites her toe nails. I've never seen a dog do that before.

Explanation of surgeries.

Little Dan broke his left pnkie playing basketball. He went in and 2 pins put in at a crisscross fashion to fix the jagged break. He went thru surgery with flying colors. His biggest complaint was lack of food. But overall after the stress of the day was through we had fun joking. I just had to remind him not to take off iss soft cast. To see picts go to Terry Children Blog link. The biggest thing with Dan is getting him to understand he needs to be careful. He crashed the pocket Rocket with his cast. Never mind he should not have been on it!
Eddie Ray surgery is scheduled for March 2nd. We've been through this before when he was 3 and needed his teeth fixed. They put the mask on he screamed, then went very still. And I cried because the whole thing unerved me. This time he's more worried about his testicle turning orange from the soap. Otherwise excited.
Now Ricky I take in on the 25th to see if tubes are the solution. He has had fluid in his ears since the day I got him. Wh they wait til 14 1/2 to do something about it is beyond me. If they don't do surgery one would have to wonder what they'll do to relieve the pressure.

Surgeries Surgeries

I'm feeling the stress of a Mom raising three beautiful active boys. Dan had surgery 2 weeeks ago. We just got word Eddie Ray is definately having surgery on his left testicle. He continues to swell in the testicle, groin, and belly. Good news it doesn't bother him. Wednesday we go to see if Ricky is a go on his surgery to put tubes in. The good news the boys are excited at the prospect of surgery, it's just Mom who knows it has to be done, just doesn't like it.

TAGGED

Rules:1- Post the rules
2- Answer the 6 "8" items
3- Let each person know that they have been tagged
8 Favorite T.V. Shows
1- Dancing With the Stars
2- dESPERATE hOUSE WIVES
3- Boston Legal
4- Reba
5- ER
6- Grey's Anatomy
7- Hot Rod TV
8- Sunday Morning News CBS
8 Things I did yesterday
1- Walked the halls of west
2- cleaned Eddie Ray's Room
3- Drove Dad back & forth to the hospital
4- did"some" laundry
5- Picked boys up from school
6 read books with Eddie Ray
7- Talked with most my sisters( Sorry Deanne)
8- Did Dishes for Dad
8 Favorite Restaurants
1- Red Lobster
2- outback steakhouse
3- Sonic
4- A&W
5- Fazoli's
6- Lone Star
7- texas roadhouse
8- Carlos O kelly's
8 things I am looking forward to
1- christmas
2- painting my bedroom
3- Get Monte running
4- sledding
5- Computer functioning again
6- A clear phone line
7-christmas caroling
8- Mom being well
8 things on my wish list
1- New vehicle
2- a great christmas for my family (all my family)
3- Date with Dan
4 Sleep at night
5- a new t.v. (it's a big wish that's not going to happen either)
6- more confidence in my mothering skills
7- have a clean house 365 days of the year and not feel tired by this (hey, it's a WISH list right, not a TO DO list)
8- Spring
i'm tagging:
1-Anyone (this has taken me 1 week to complete at school)