where did this week go?

The sad, but true answers:

dog surgery, dog's vet visits, dog gets new longer cone to prevent biting himself, feeding dog by hand each and every day, twice per day

child #2, sick with fever on Tuesday and Wednesday, add a huge dose of grumpiness on top

child #1 sick with fever beginning Thursday 5:30 pm, consistently 102 degree since then, it is now 5:01 Friday. Child #1 had her first ever Birthday sleepover scheduled for tonight which had to be canceled. When she feels really bad, she is accepting of this fate. When her meds are working a bit, she is sad, mad and less than nice.

Friday 3pm-ish, Dog has pooping episode that is left best un-described. Requires bath of half his body even though getting stitches wet is prohibited. The half of his body that needs the bath, is that half of his body.

Friday 4pm another vet appointment. Vet tells me to buy Bitter Apple to deter puppy from chewing his stitches and thus, allowing his cone to come off. Cone comes off for roughly 78 seconds with bitters applied, puppy will not leave well enough alone. He is back outside, sporting the cone, running in frantic circles, yelping.

Oh, puppy meals will now include canned pumpkin. Again, treading lightly around the topic of poop which after 3pm today, I am left unable to discuss due to above episode.

Just be glad I don't have pictures to accompany this post.

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muffin tin monday--ice cream topping edition

With the puppy' surgery, several hours spent at Kings Island, and then an extra trip back to the vet...neither lunch or dinner was served from muffin tins. However, it makes a great container for an assortment of ice cream toppings.

Shelby spooning up the syrup.

A macro shot of toppings.

A yummy face.

And Olivia adding crushed heath bars to her bowl.

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the cone head

This was very shortly after returning home and calming down. He most definitely was not feeling well at this point.

He was really OUT. Not a budge when he heard the camera click.

Then, later he started to perk up. And dang, he is still pretty cute, even with a lampshade.

And talk about spoiled, how about being hand fed your food since it is hard to reach with the cone on? A good life.

In all seriousness, I think it all went well. I hope he can rest easy tonight.

And for those who know me, I can hear you, HEAR YOU saying: has she really devoted two blog posts to her puppy?! The person who is not a dog person? And it would appear I have gone soft where this little dude is concerned.

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a water dog?

It began simply like this. On Thursday, Skipper took notice of the kids in the pool and especially the splashing. He did a lot of barking and racing around.

Yesterday, things progressed a bit to this.

And then this. By now, they are drenching him and he is loving it. And so is Olivia apparently, look at the look on her face! (Click photos to view larger).

And last, a completely soaked, shaking dog!

Say a little prayer tomorrow for my dude Skipper, he is going in for that surgery, and in his case, it is a little more involved than normal. I am dreading it on his behalf.

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a quick birthday party recap

My family came early and in order to busy ourselves during the rainy day, MaMa and PaPa gave the girls their American Girl dolls before the party began. Carissa and Julie Albright = big hits!

A little blurry, but that is my five year old receiving an "i phone" in her words. In reality, it is an ipod shuffle. Still crazy. I just loaded songs on it.

Next, Olivia holding crocs for her American Girl dolls. I found a totally cute local store with tons of doll stuff. Also, a big hit.

And the finale, my rainbow 6 inch cakes that I made for each girl. It was a surprise what was inside b/c I had them iced before the girls saw. They turned out really great. I followed ideas from here and here. The second link here, whoa!, that lady must have used an intense amount of food coloring to get such bright colors. This would be totally fun to do for a tie dye theme.

More pictures to follow including our very strange dog Skipper who has taken a big liking to the pool water, from a close perch right on the edge.

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