Halloween Party

At work today we had a Halloween Party. I was running very late this morning, so I didn't dress up. But Trey and Smith did! Smith was a frog. He wore his costume for about 5 minutes before he over heated, so no photo yet. Trey was a little devil/demon. I think it fits him. We went trick-or-treating to all the cubicles in my office. It took him a while, but once he figured out you can walk up to anyone and they will give you candy, there was no stopping him. Half the candy I brought to pass out ended up in his bucket. Can't wait for tomorrow!

And then there was one...

Last week I posted a story about our dog Wake that ran away. I was so worried about him that Nate finally picked him up from the pound, even though we swore we wouldn't.

Today I was giving the boys a bath when someone started ringing the door bell. I ignored it, after all, I can't leave babies alone in the bath. Then they pounded on the door and rang again. Finally I wrap the kids in towels and go to the door, and what do I find? A police officer and our dog Max on a rope. He tells me the other one (Wake) got away, but I should check the pound in a couple days. Not likely. Meanwhile I've got a naked kid in each arm wrapped in towels and the cop is asking for my drivers license. Great! Why does this stuff always happen when Nate is at work?


Here is the hole in the fence where they got out. Max's has been really well behaved in the house so far. Good thing too, cause I don't know if I can fix this in the dark.


UPDATE: I just got the kids to bed and went out to the yard to fix the fence and found Wake sitting in the grass, I guess we are back to two dogs again. Duh!

Quirks

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1 – I don’t like lettuce. I don’t want it on my sandwich, hamburger or my salad. I prefer a pile of veggies with dressing on top, and that’s usually what I get when I go to a salad bar. But spinach in salad is good.

2 – I’m a little sensitive to caffeine. I can’t have any coke after about 11am or I am up all night. I am still a little shocked when I see people having a coke with dinner. How do you do that?!?

3 – I love a good count down. I started count down the days for my pregnancy the day I found out I was pregnant. I also like to count down the days to holidays and the hours left in the work day or till bedtime or the miles left in a trip. I also like to reward myself for every milestone. (i.e. 172 miles to Vegas, eat a skittle, 171 miles, skittle, 170 miles, skittle...)

4 – The volume on the TV, radio, my phone, whatever, MUST be an even number whenever possible.

5 – Like a lot of people I save plastic grocery bags, But I like to carefully fold them up and tie them in a knot so they don’t take up so much space.

6 – I like to eat raw dough. Cookie dough, bread dough, cake batter, pancake batter, all of it. delicious. I still think this is perfectly normal, but Nate keeps telling me that it's not.

Work in the morning

I get the boys to bed at 9. I spent a little time decompressing from the day and went to bed myself around10:30 or 11. At 11:30 Trey woke up screaming. I was a little worried about him cause he had had a fever today. So I got him up and did my best to meet his needs. It's now 12:45 and he is finally calming down. So naturally Smith is starting to stir. I have feeling it is going to be like this all night. My first day back at work is tomorrow. It may not be a good one.

That Dog...

We got his dog from my brother a little over a year ago. His name is Wake. In that time he has run away from home 4 times. The first two times we bailed him out of the pound. The second time it was very expensive so we vowed if he ran away again, he was on his own. We even talked about giving him away for a while. A couple months ago I went out to check on the dogs and the kennel was open. Max (the good dog) was just hanging out in the yard and Wake was gone. I was kind sad, but we had already made up our minds. A couple days later Nate was riding his bike home from work when a big brown dog started chasing him. It was Wake.

Last week he ran away again. This time Nate was out in the yard with the dogs and he just disappeared. Nate was not interested in checking the pound, this was the 4th time in about a year. At first I totally agreed with him. Wake eats a ton of food, he smells bad, he's always slobbering on us and he runs away all the time. We don't need that. All week I've been worried about him, what if he got hurt, what if he gets put to sleep, what if, what if... I guess I was more vocal then I realized. Yesterday Nate and Trey went to the pound without telling me and brought Wake home. YEAH! I guess he's kind of grown on me.

Baby Faces

Little Helper

Every time I try to get something out of the oven Trey goes straight for the pot holders. Today he wanted to put them on his hands and feet. You can never be to careful.