ok, i feel better.... after the day i've had, a good scream is really what i need. my child.... ohhhh my child is, well, he's a toddler. that about sums it up. my sister-in-law (Michelle) and my niece (Hannah, 14 months) are in town and Lincoln and i have been visiting them during the day so the kids can play... Lincoln will do absolutely ANYTHING to g et Hannah to laugh. he's hilarious. any time Hannah laughs, Link's face lights up. he loves it. if something makes her laugh, he'll do it again and again and again... and, when Hannah's around, Mommy seems to be invisible. he shows off SO BAD around her, totally ignores me. drives me crazy. today i had to spank him more than i think i have in his entire life. now my spankings, they don't hurt... but Lincoln's such a sensitive kiddo that even the lightest tap will make him cry if he knows he's in trouble... but today, nothing would phase him. usually if i spank him, he will stop doing what he was doing and not do it again. TODAY, he would stop for about 60 seconds and go right back to what he was doing. i finally just gave up and started laughing deliriously at everything he did because at the time, there wasn't a damn thing i could do about it. seriously, he drove me about 90% of the way to insanity today. my child, just like his mommy, LOOOOVES attention!
so tomorrow should be interesting. Michelle, Pam (mother-in-law), and I are taking the kids (Hannah and Lincoln) to get pictures taken. luckily they will be taken outside and it's not like they have to sit still and pose for them, but it will be crazy nonetheless. (is that all one word? now i don't think it is. i am so confused) so, make sure all your good thoughts go out to Melanie about 6-ish tomorrow evening, because that is when we will all be trying to corral the kiddos into the same place to be able to get a few decent pictures. i'll post some at a later date.
i so cannot believe that i have not blogged about my parents' dog yet. they have this miniature dachshund named Tootsie Roll (because she looks like one- long and skinny and brown) anyway, my dad found her out in the middle of nowhere during a rainstorm about 4 1/2 years ago. my dad (he's a big guy, 6'6") and this tiny little dog have this crazy bond, she sleeps in bed with him, goes everywhere he goes, he totally spoils her... they're like the odd couple. so anyway, about a week and a half ago, Tootsie started acting weird, like she had been kicked by a cow (it's happened before and she's just sore for a few days and then she's ok) but she just kept getting worse and worse and eventually couldn't even move her back legs or her tail. it was so depressing. she was just dragging her back half around with her, only able to move her front legs. so my dad takes her to the vet and he's like "oh, she'll get better, here's some meds" and 2 days later Tootsie was even worse. wouldn't eat, couldn't poop or pee, couold hardly move... so the vet does some x-rays and finds out that one of the dog's vertabrae is crumbling, he called it a "degenerative disc" and the crumbling bone is pressing on her nerve in such a way that it's paralyzing her lower half. totally depressing, because this means she couldn't even move her bowels or anything, and could either have very very expensive surgery, or be put to sleep. my dad was a freaking basketcase. the vet gave Tootsie some steroids to see if she could possibly get better... my dad said "well, i guess he just gave us about 3 more days with her before we have to put her down" and one morning, SHE STARTS WAGGING HER TAIL! and now she can semi-walk... it's amazing, she was like completely paralyzed from the waist down for like 2 or 3 days, and now she can walk again!!! she's still really wobbly, but she can walk! and she can eat and pee and poop and so my dad's like a new man, so happy and giddy like a school boy. sooo, she might be able to get better on her own, but she could get worse again... anyway, that's my crazy story about my parents' dog. the end.
wow this is long.
just one more thing... for mother's day, instead of buying me a card, my husband wrote me a song. and he sang it to me... and danced. the song started out, "OHHHH MELANIE!!! I WANNA WISH YOU A HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!" there was a lot more, it was absolutely hilarious. and it was the sweetest damn thing anyone has done for me in a long time, maybe ever. he is amazing. how i love him so.
i hope you are all having a wonderful week.
au revoir
LOVE :)
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