I hate the month of August. I know its still technically part of summer, but since school always started in August, it felt like it should cool down and be fall. Its such a weird month.
I am so ready for it to cool off. Its been so stinking hot and humid for a very long time. Unfortunately, it won't be getting better for a couple of months.
Two Saturdays ago, when Jason was in CT, Houdini cracked his dew claw straight up the middle. I took him the ER vet because he was in pain. They told me that it would just fall out, it will be fine. Our vet called to check up on him Tuesday morning and I told them that it seems to bother him every once in a while so we brought him in the afternoon. The decision was made to put him under the next morning so they could remove it without it being traumatic. So the next morning I dropped him off, then Caleb and I picked him up in the afternoon. He had a bandage on so had to wear an Elizabethian collar at night so he wouldn't pick at it. That evening, I noticed that Susie was having more accidents (sigh) than usual in the house and that it seemed like she had spots of blood in her pee. So the next morning when the vet called to check on Houdini, we made an appt for Susie that afternoon. She has a bladder infection, so we got antibiotics for her. The next day we went back to the vet to get Houdini's bandage removed.
So if you were keeping track, that was five out of seven days that we were at the vet. Four days in a row. Caleb was really enjoying going to the doctor for Dini and Susie's booboos. We also spent a crazy amount of money, but what can you do?
It looks like we will be getting a fence in right before Caleb's birthday. The handyman that our realtor recommended to us is doing the labor for less than HALF what Lowe's labor was and he uses a fence outlet place that has a better quality fence at a better price. So the fence will be done for less then the labor that Lowe's was going to charge us. Ridiculous, right?
We went to Lowe's yesterday for weed trimmer string and ended up getting a lawn tractor. Thank GOD!!! We have a little over a 1/4 acre, so its a sizeable yard, and Jason's been using a self-propelled since we've moved down here. He was just excited to have a yard to mow and didn't think he'd need a tractor. I hated seeing him out there. Its freaking miserable, even at 7:30-8pm. By the time he would get done (hour and a half to two hours) he would be completely dripping with sweat and sick! I was honestly worried that he was going to pass out sometimes. So now, he'll be able to mow, edge, trim hedges and weeds all in the same day! I'm so excited as if I was the one that mowed! It'll still suck to do it in the afternoon, because it sucks just being outside in the afternoon, but atleast he could do it in the evenings and get it finished before dark. And if not, the tractor has headlights :)
The baby baking is doing good. I'll be 15 weeks on Tuesday. Caleb's birthday is next month and I cannot wait. He's already getting excited too. I made a little banner for his baseball birthday party and he was talking to his grandpa saying "beesball! birday!" He's loving all sports right now. I've been having a blast planning his party! He's going to have so much fun!
I never mentioned this, but on Jason's birthday a month ago, we got him some shirts, a pair of shorts, and a pair of sunglasses for yard work and wrapped them up. Caleb kept wanting to unwrap the presents and kept saying "FOR ME?! FOR ME?!" and was having a fit! I had to hide them until Jason came home and he was not shy about helping unwrap.
I will post some pictures later of what I've got so far for his party! Its just going to be sooo stinking cute!
Poor Houdini!
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