Kittens, two and a half weeks old

These pictures are from early this morning. They're starting to stand up on their wobbly little legs. So cute!

Lacey helping out by sniffing some butts.

Eliza (already sold to my cousin's friend) and Lacey sniff each other.

RIP little guy

Unfortunately yesterday when I checked on the kittens, the littlest one had died. I took it really hard. I cried all over the place, and when I walked in the back of the house looking for a place to bury him, I stepped into a hole, twisting my ankle and back as I fell, and lay on the ground crying for a few minutes. Jake came out to hug me and help me up. I didn't have a shovel though, so I had to dig a hole with a stick. I got about 6" deep, put the little guy curled up in a ball in the bottom of the hole, and covered him over with dirt. I rolled a very large rock over top of the grave so nothing would dig him up. I don't think he'd been eating properly. He was only half the size of the other kittens, who are all growing like weeds. I guess nature knows best, survival of the fittest and all that, but it's still so very sad. And it brings all my grief about my mom right back up to the surface again. And to top it all off, I told my team about it in this morning's preshift meeting, and I cried again. Needless to say I had a bad day today.

Kittens

I was afraid of making the previous post too long, so I put it up before I added all my back-logged pictures. These are the last of 'em. The grey one and the big black and white one (the girl) both are starting to open their eyes already!

Picture Catch-up

As stated. Can't talk. Must post photos.

Robbie and our kids experience daycare together while Jake and I work (well for Robbie it isn't daycare, it's just his mom and dad).


Hayden set this up. They were both really tired, but they were too cute to fall asleep.

Jake on his birthday. Happy 32nd, honey!
The Nerpins from a few weeks ago.

Chris is trying to get Hayden out of this family shot LOL. He's sitting on the lion with Robbie.
Cutie
Cutie flapping

The day the kittens were born was Penny and Sabrina's birthday (Sept 9th) Here are shots of Penny's party.

Cute trunks.

I was trying to get a picture of Hannah, but people kept leaning into the shot. Here's Chris leaning in (her dad)...
Here's Ron leaning in.

Jake and Sage have fun with a hat.


If you can't reach something, get a Kid-O-Grabber to reach it for you!

it's 7:15am

I'm early for leaving to work today so I thought I'd jot a few thoughts down here. I don't know how often I'll be blogging in the future; going back to full time work is a full time job! heh heh. No seriously, it really takes up a lot of my time. Stupid working *kick*.

Sage is really on the move now. He's a super fast crawler and is standing up more and more often. He's even taken sideways and forward steps one, two, and even three at a time! Pretty soon he'll be taking a lot more than that. He's so steady on his feet, he just lacks the confidence, I'm sure. We coax him to walk between us and around the room. He'll get it. AND he'll be getting it 5 months earlier than his big brother did (Sage is 13 months now, Hayden walked when he was almost 18 months).

I didn't even blog a Happy Birthday message to Jake yesterday, I just realized. Hrm. What a bad blogger I am. and not so great a wife either, eh? hey! Who's agreeing with me? Stop that! I'm a great wife.

Yesterday being Jake's birthday, we went out to lunch with my dad, and then we drove out to Lively to buy Native cigarettes ($30 a carton). On the way out there we were almost sideswiped by a stupid truck turning left onto the 5 lane highway. There was a middle lane, but his angle looked too wide to be aiming for it; he was coming right into MY lane! I had to swerve drastically so as not to hit him. I honked my horn for a long time, and then broke out in OH MY GOD WHAT IF I HADN"T MISSED HIM sweat. Jake said it was awesome manoevering on my part. We're just lucky there wasn't anyone in my blind spot on the right. And then, a few minutes later, the radio started going louder and quieter as I stepped on the brakes and gas. Isn't that weird? I thought. Then other things started to go funny. The turn signals wouldn't work, the spedometer was all over the place.. Jake said not to turn the car off while he went in to buy the smokes because he was sure the battery was dying. On the way back we finally lost all power right across the street from a garage. The guy wasn't busy and hooked us up to a different battery to move the car across the street into the bay, and he told us it was the alternator. He could have a new one there in 15 minutes and fixed in an hour and a half. Lucky for us it was payday and we had the $400. We hung out at the Country Style just up the road for a bit, and then went for a walk through a graveyard that still had mosquitos in it, and by the time we got back to the garage, our car was done. For having bad luck, it certainly was the best case scenario. We were so thankful at the circumstances, we weren't even pissed about the unexpected $400 dish-out. If the car had died on the highway, we would've been stranded! We would've had to pay for a tow truck, it would've taken a lot longer... oh so much else could've gone wrong.

Now it's past 7:30 and I still have to put on my eyeliner and get going to work. ta ta for now!

New Hair

Here's what I finally achieved, hair wise. I love it!

you can even see my tattoo

Robbie, Sage, and the Drama of Seepeach, as real as possible!

How I know Batman is gay...