Baby Milestone!!! Lisa took two steps by her self completely last night!!! She walked from one toy to another!!! How exciting!

Fishies…. well we are now down to two. Simon the algae eater, and one Neon Tetra….

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Well we made a new leap this week. We bought Lisa a fish tank. Set it up on Monday, and then last night bought some fishies to go in it. We bought 6 Neon Tetras and a Siamese Algae Eater. Lisa likes them, she will sit and watch them, and stick her head up against the glass. Its cute. This morning she named three of them, they are, Dye, Aye-Aye (said like I-I), and Uh-oh. We named the algae eater Simon. And we already had to have a fishie funeral, Midnight died last night. (Named Midnight for the time of day it died). So now we have two left for her to name. I will post some pictures when I get the chance to take them!

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Ok so I had just put Lisa down for the night, and was eating a bit of desert (Chocolate Chocolate Chip Macadamia Nut Biscotti) when there was a knock at the door (well really the door bell, but anyways). It was our neighbor from behind’s kids. They came to ask if they could walk our dogs, just take them and walk them. Ok I was so taken aback by this it was just strange! I let both Keegan and Gracie go with almost strangers! They took them on a walk for a good 30 minutes. When they got back Gracie was even tired, with her tongue hanging out! It was just so surreal, Dan and I kept looking at each other, and were like ok so did that just happen?

I think their grandmother just wanted them to get outta the house and burn off some energy! But hey if my doggies get a chance to get walked a few nights a week I am totally down with that!!!

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Wow, where to start. Today is Lisa’s two month birthday, whoa! And she weighs 9 pounds 5 ounces. Almost 9 and a half pounds, she is a growing! She holds her head up pretty good, follows voices, she grabbed for a Pooh toy hanging on her swing the other day!

She starts day care on May 1st. Funny story there… I called the Day care place, because when we went and toured the place it was still under construction and they didn’t have their accreditation for infants yet. Well we finally filled out the paper work, and I called them yesterday. And she said we have a class of 7 now, with one spot left for Lisa, we have her scheduled to start on May 1st. I was like wait a minute, don’t you think it would be a good idea to tell ME that she is supposed to start on May 1st. Anyways we found out, so no biggie, now we are going to go on Monday more than likely to visit with her teachers Ms. Bunny (yes like the Easter bunny) and Ms. Stephanie. Fun Fun…

I have spent the last month trying to fix a HUGE problem we have had in our back yard. When it rains we end up with a moat. Because the dumb dumbs that built our house grated the perimeter of our yard so that it slopes away from our house and yard. Well since the yards around us (mainly the one behind us) is on a hill higher than our yard, all this does is make a giant moat around our yard. Which is real fun with two dogs, and no grass in the back yard.

So anyways that was the problem, so to fix it, I seeded the yard, with the help of Carey (THANK YOU). That should take care of some of the mud, now to the moat. I lined about 3 feet out from the fence with that weed fabric stuff (the black stuff), and then put small river rocks (gravely sized) down, and lined it with larger river rocks, so it makes a dry river bed, or at least thats what it sorta looks like. Well that took FOREVER. I was going to plant some water loving plants in my “river” but Keegan has since destroyed them, so yeah no plants back there…. (you can see the pots in the pictures). Well the grass has finally started growing real good, and our back yard actually looks pretty decent. If you think it looks bad, everywhere there is light colored green-ness, used to be DIRT!!!!!

I also spend Easter Sunday water sealing the fence, and it looks really good now, its a pretty color!

While buying plants and rocks for the back yard I bought some bulbs and plants for the front flower beds too. I planted lots of day lilies, gladiolas, and two other kinds of flowers I don’t remember what they are, but they are blue when they bloom. Anyways my glads are starting to sprout, yay! Its always scary when you plant bulbs if they are going to sprout or not. Anyways the pictures are here.

While mowing my yard (makes the grass look better in the back yard, and keeps the weeds down) I found a rabbit hole. I have been dealing with this rabbit for a while now. It has been eating my cantas when they start to come up, and my tulips, anyways not so thrilled with this rabbit. So I mowed over the new rabbit hole (second one I have found in my yard). Then when I was weed eating, I was trying to get the rabbit fur out of the hole with the weed eater when I heard a horrid sound. Stopped the weed eater and realised there were baby bunnies in this hole, it wasn’t abandoned like the last one… So I had to gather up some gloves and a bucket, then I gathered up the bunnies, all 8 of them, and relocated them to a new home far away from houses or people (till it gets developed….).

I also applied for a job at the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Crime Lab, doing DNA casework! Its in Jefferson City, but it pays pretty good, which makes the 30 minute drive worth it! (Now lets keep our fingers crossed that I get the job!)

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Well Mizzou went back to the vet yesterday, she just didn’t seem right after all her earlier probings. They took X-rays of her chest and abdomen. The chest X-rays came back good, so no pneumonia, but the abdominal X-rays showed gas filled large and small intestines. Which is not good, and could potentially mean there is a blockage (i.e. foreign body) in her intestines. But the X-rays weren’t definitive about it, so she stayed the night at the animal hospital, in the ICU so her vital signs could be monitored, in case she took a turn for the worse.

Then this morning she was fed some Barium, and had another set of X-rays, to watch the progression of the Barium through her system. Turns out the Barium made it just fine through her system, so she has no blockage, yay! So we got to go pick her up this evening, and now we are just monitoring her to see if in the next 24-48 hours she gets back to her “normal” self (like cats are normal…).

The Vet thinks the GI upset could have been caused by the antibiotics (which were stopped yesterday when her chest X-ray came back normal). So potentially that’s what caused it, or it could be that she is a small kitty and they did stick an endoscope down her throat and into her stomach, which could have lead to the GI issues as well. We will not know, and hopefully she will be back to normal in no time!

Interesting fact we found out about her, from her X-rays. One of her kidneys is smaller than the other! The vet said its no big deal since one of them is normal sized, so we shouldn’t ever have problems with it, just a genetic goof that our kitty has!

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