Monday, July 18, 2005
The vet called about an hour ago to let us know that Cupid is out of surgery and that they were able to successfully remove the stone. I think we are all feeling better and I know that everyone will be doing a lot better as soon as we pickup our little girl this evening.
Friday, July 15, 2005
Today the boys and I are anxious and nervous. The boys’ sister, Cupid the cat, is having surgery to remove a stone found in her bladder.
The stone was discovered yesterday after we took her to the vet because we noticed blood in her urine. After doing an ultrasound the Dr. found a 7mm, free floating stone in her bladder.
Once the stone is removed, Cupid should be feeling much better. In the meantime, we are sending her positive energy to help her get through the day.
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Last night we made a run to McDonald’s for dinner. We always go to the drive thru and bring the food home so that the boys can go with us. Drive thrus are one of their favorite places to go in the car.
Last night the boys were riding in the back seat using their new seat belts and the back windows were down about 3/4 of the way. We got to the drive thru, placed our order and pulled up the first window. We paid the lady and were about to pull up to the next window when she spotted the boys peaking out of the car trying so hard to catch a glimpse inside. She enthusiastically screamed, “Oh, puppies!” and tried to reach out to pet the boys. The boys of course were loving the attention.
When we pulled up to the next window, there were about four people standing there waiting to say hello to the boys. Again the boys were loving the attention and stretching as far out the window as they could. The next thing I know someone hands a napkin out the window to us. Inside the napkin is two chicken McNuggets. The boys’ eyes lit up when they saw and smelled the nuggets. We let them eat the McNugget in the car and everyone watching from the window, including two managers, got a kick out of watching them eat the McNuggets.
Needless to say, that really made the boys’ night. It will be interesting to see how they act the next time they go to McDonalds. I’m sure they will be anxiously waiting for their next McNugget!
Friday, July 8, 2005
Henry has really been enjoying swimming lately - I would even say that he is enjoying it a bit too much. He is completely confident in his swimming abilities (over confident in my opinion), so he has moved on to other more difficult water related activities. His latest is jumping in the pool. He loves to belly flop into the pool swim to the other end, climb out of the pool and then jump back in.
His other new favorite activity is going underwater! I have no idea why he likes to do this, but while floating on his raft he will just stick his whole head underwater. I think it first started because he was trying bite and fetch the logo that is silkscreened onto his raft (you know he has a fascination with fetching everything in the water). Ever since then, it seems like he enjoys sticking his head under the water.
I don’t really think that him going under the water is that good of an idea. I fuss at him whenever he does it, but I don’t really think I have gotten my point across to him yet. And I guess if it scared him or if it hurt, he wouldn’t do it so much!
Regardless, it is safe to say that Henry is definitely an odd bird!
(Oh, and incase you can’t tell that orange blob in the picture is Henry in his lifevest completely under the water)
Saturday, July 2, 2005
Our long holiday weekend got off with a bang, when we headed to the beach early this morning. We weren’t planning to get up at 6:30am this morning, but everyone was a little restless so we decided to head to the beach and beat the crowd. There were a few other people there, mainly fishing, but the boys enjoyed their early morning swim and then relaxed on the beach a bit. To show his patriotism, Benjamin proudly display his stars and stripe dog tag while watching the boats.
Thursday, June 30, 2005
Recently, we have been eating a lot of Chinese food. No matter what we order we always get wonton soup. One night the boys were looking paticularly cute so we let them have one of the crunchy noodles that come with the wonton soup. We had no idea what we had started, but it turns out that the boys think these crunchy noodles are the tastiest things ever.
So, we decided to use these noodles for good and see if they could help us get the boys’ toenails cut. Usually, the boys get a small treat when they let us cut all of the toenails on one paw (or in Benny’s case, since he puts up such a fight, he get a treat for each toenail we cut). Well, it turns out that these noodles really have some pull with the boys. They were the perfect gentlemen while we were cutting their toenails. I had never seen them behave so well while getting their toenails trimmed. So, after their toenails were cut, we held up our end of the deal and gave each one of the boys a handful of the crunchy noodles. They loved it!
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
I am very sad to say that Lou C., the family rabbit, passed away this weekend. He had just come back from a visit to the vet, where the vet said that he was in great shape for being nine years old, but that he was a few years past his prime. We were all very distraught hearing the vet’s news and he died the very next day. He was 9 years old.
Lou C. lived a very full and interesting life. His life began as the classroom pet for a room full of pre-schoolers. For the first five years of his life he was free to hop around and play with a room full of 20 4 year old children. The children initially named him “Lucy” because everyone was under the impression that he was a girl. However, when he went in to be fixed everyone soon discovered that “Lucy” was a boy. So his name was changed to Lou C. - with C being the first initial of his last name.
After 4 years of teaching he finally retired and that is when he came to live with us full-time. He quickly became good friends with Cupid, our cat, who was the only other pet we had at that time. A few years later we got Benjamin & Henry and the boys learned to get along wonderfully with Lou as well. Since he was litter box trained Lou enjoyed free reign of the house. He was free to hop around anyplace he liked, although he usually never left carpeted surfaces. He enjoyed being outside nibbling on the grass and spending some time in the sun.
Even though the vet had said that he was past his prime, his death on Saturday was unexpected. Everyone, including Benjamin, Henry & Cupid, keep looking around expecting him to be right there under our feet. The cat and dogs keep going into his room to look for him and even when I pass by I still can’t believe that his is not there.
Lou C. was loved by us all and he was dear part of our family. He will forever be missed!
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