Choas in a Chaotic household...

Adjustments Abound!

We are adjusting to the dogs being here. The dogs are adjusting to being here. We've already had a few attempts at escaping out of the yard. Junior is adjusting to them being here and they are adjusting to him as well. Sox has learned that Junior isn't all that bad. Junior has learned how to throw the ball albiet not very far, but throws it none the less for him. I wish that circumstances had been different and we hadn't had to leave the dogs in California for 7 months. I think that time away from each other (the dogs & Jr and the dogs & us in general) made it easy to forget who's really in charge and who the top dog really is. Lets just say that the past week has resulted in the ultimate "come to Jesus meeting" of the minds.

Surgery, Travel and more Surgery

Yesterday, Calvin had surgery on his right knee because he had a possible torn ligament. We went through the same surgery with Sox about 3 years ago. The surgery is called TPLO. (click the link for a better explination then I can give. Lets just go with it's pretty invasive and recovery with out a toddler around is rough... so you can imagine what our life is going to be like for the next 6 weeks.) He is currently resting on the dog bed on the floor of our room and will most likely spend the majority of the next 6 weeks there or in his kennel.

Junior and I are flying home next month for about three weeks! I am looking forward to him having others to entertain him and getting to spend some time with family. When I was pregnant with Junior both our families only got to see me in person very early on. Grammie J and Aunt Claire visited for my shower, and so they got to see me about two months before I had Jr. So this visit will be fun so that everyone will actually get to experiance part of this pregnancy. Plus it will be the last time I'll really get to travel till after little Miss Princess arrives.

When we get back in April, Junior will be having tubes put in his ears. So yes, there is no lack of surgeries going on here in our chaotic little household. Luckily tubes are not really a big surgery. His will be done a little bit differently then normal - instead of just using gas to put knock him out our ENT wants to intubate him so that they will be able to go through his nose and get a really good look at his adnoids. (the suspected cause of his loud mouth breathing, snoring and "snorting"). This should also eliminate the ear infections we have been battling. (4 or more times on antibiotics a year for the same thing [ear infections] is a bad thing, according to the Dr). IF he still has his "uncharacteristic" symptoms but his ears aren't infected then they will be able to elimenate his ears and figure out what's really going on.

So, that in a nutshell is what is new around here.