According to Moms Salary Wizard I should be earning $624,413/year for the area we live in. I guess that's suppose to be an average 40 hour week and everything else is over time. The pay includes such jobs as housekeeper, daycare center teacher, (institution) cook, laundry machine operator, facilities manager, van driver, janitor, psychologist, and chief executive officer.
After today I can add lock picker and nurse to the above mentioned jobs and my resume. R figured out how to climb out of his crib not too long ago, but he never really felt the need to utilize this talent. In fact, I think he's known how to do it long before his first great escape. Yesterday morning he escaped. Today he escaped twice. This is not where the nurse role comes into play. He sleeps with his door closed. He can reach the handles, but can only open a few doors. This is where he did not think his plan out completely. In his attempt to break free he ended up hitting the lock on his door. He knew I was on the other side so there was no panicking. In fact I think he thought it was some what amusing. He's locked himself in the bathroom before, so this is nothing new to him. Mom to the rescue!! I tried a bobby pin, but no luck. I found an old card and was able to help my little guy break free from the confines of his room.
My role as a nurse... We needed to run out and grab a few items for dinner tonight. When I can, I like to go to Henry's. Their fruits and vegetables last longer and are better priced. Plus it's just a neat store to go to over all. It's not the closest grocery store to us, though, but worth the drive. Back to the story... They have little carts for kids to push around. R does not care to sit in the cart seat when we go shopping. I blame it on a 3 hour trip to Home Depot a few months back. So we (a friend was with us) got R his own little cart to push. It was cute, I wish I had my camera. The cart had a pole going up with a flag that said something like "Shopper in training". I think the cart could have used a few bumpers on it and heel guards. Eventually we figured out that if we weighed the cart down with items R could drive as crazy. He eventually figured off that he needed to listen to mommy when she told him not to goof off. I'm not too sure how the events played out, but he ended up hitting his head on the wheel of his cart. Melt-down magnified by 100 because it was also nearing nap time. Poor little guy had a dime size bruise on the side of his forehead. Nothing like a mommy's love and a pacifier to make him feel better.
R's vocabulary is starting to take off. He shrugs his shoulders and says Idon'tknow (yes, all 1 word), our dog Sammy is Mam, I'm momma, A is daddy or poppa (sometimes), his grandfather (A's dad) is Bob (yes, R has called him by his name), & more is mo. Sometimes he will say milk. He can say duck, truck, yuck and one other -uck word (use your imagination). He's tell you bye & wave when you leave or if he just doesn't want to be bothered by you. Oh, yes, he has one other phrase... Oh Sheeet (again, use your imagination). There's more, but I'm feeling lazy at the moment. Lets just say daddy has learned that he really does have to watch what he says around his little bukaroo!
L is quit the talker. She made several new sounds today & I could swear she said "momma", but it was probably a fluke. Nothing really new in her world. She sleeps, eats, & poops.
Some of you know that Sammy was having some mysterious mouth issues. We took him to a doggy dentist because the regular vet was clueless. Sammy wasn't acting himself. We thought this might have been age, even though he's not anywhere near old. He was also doing this weird jaw crunching or cracking and stretching. It's really hard to describe it. It's one of those things you have to see to understand. He ended up having 1 seriously infected tooth pulled and two impacted molars that didn't have roots. Boxers have jacked up mouths - extra teeth, extra gum skins, just issues all over. Oh & he also had some cyst biopsies which came back normal. He definitely has his personality back and his breathe isn't as offensive anymore (think rotting fish), but he still makes that noise with his jaw. We're wondering if it's a behavior. It's almost like nails going down a chalk board. Everyone, the vet, the dentist, several breeders & us are all baffled. Maybe TMJ. It's really rare in dogs, but Sam could be one of those rarities.
Now back to your regularly scheduled program...
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