Wednesday, July 9, 2008

4th of July and More

The weekend started out great! The morning of the 4th we went to Kernersville where Jeremy ran a 5k. He finally has started running again on a regular basis since he's done with school. He's getting back in shape! He finished in 19:02, 18th overall, and won his age division. As strange as it sounds, I forget how much I love going to races. Not DOING them, just watching and cheering. I'm glad he's back to it.
Maddox thought this thing was pretty strange. And this is why we need a house with a basement/rec room. A place to put these things . . .
After the race we walked up the street to watch the parade. I can't wait until Maddox is older so she can get the candy. It seems a little improper for me to try to get some, but I wanted a piece or two! I guess I'll wait a couple more years. That night we went to Lewisville to hear music and watch the fireworks. We ended up sitting a long way from the car which worried me a bit in case Maddox got scared of all the noise. She was a little worried or confused at first as you can tell in the picture but she sat and watched them all without getting fussy at all.

Then the weekend got interesting. Maddox got a rash on her legs on Saturday which went away in a few hours so I didn't think much of it. I figured she came into something on her Daddy's shirt after he went and played softball that hurt her delicate skin. It showed up on her bottom too but I treated it with diaper ointment and it went away too. On Monday morning she had some blisters on her toes so I called the doc and went in and she had hand, foot, and mouth disease. She never ran a fever and Monday was her fussiest day which wasn't too bad. When I got to work on Tuesday I found out she got it from Camden and Morgan. She's almost over it though. Her blisters are almost gone and she's pretty happy.


Poor Jessi got stung by a bee on Saturday too. She was playing frisbee with me and she suddenly dropped it and ran around then ran to me, flipping her head, and pawing at her ear. I inspected and found a stinger stuck on the underside of her ear flap. I pulled it out and went to the store to buy her some Benadryl. It was inflamed and bothering her a lot but the Benadryl took effect about 30 min. later and she felt much better. Can you tell which ear it is? Poor thing.

Also on Saturday I made the decision to take Hailey to the vet to be put to sleep. She has been peeing outside the litter box for years now. We've treated UTIs, put her on Prozac, gave her a separate litter box, tried different litter, but nothing was working. She just can't handle her anxiety, which then causes UTIs. What put it over the top was that she started peeing on the carpet instead of the wood or in her own special litter box and now the house smells. Can't have that. I took her on Monday after Maddox's doc appointment. It was very sad and hard to put a "healthy" cat to sleep.


And so I'd post a picture of her in her memory but I don't seem to have one which leads me to my next problem. I had put all the pictures from 2004-2006 on a disk and erased them from my hard drive and put the disk with all the other disks in the desk. I cannot find that disk anywhere! No proof of the Jeremy and I meeting, dating, travelling, getting married, or our honeymoon, let alone all the other pictures. I praying it shows up somewhere. I just don't know where!

So to end on a better note . . . Maddox is enjoying Jenn's Bumbo a little more. Still not enough to spend $35 on one. But she's at least sitting up more in it. And the Wheeler Family Reunion starts tomorrow so I'm excited about that! We'll have lots of pictures after that!


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