Our weekend wasn’t very exciting.  Unfortunately, Chris had to work on both Saturday and Sunday so most of his weekend was spent in the office- yuck!  Friday night he was too tired to go to his ice hockey game so we just chilled- Chris napped in the recliner with Skylar.  On Saturday I headed up to Longmont to visit my friends Bill and Jen and their 2 sons.  I was returning all the maternity clothes Jen loaned me (thanks Jen!!!!) in hopes of trying to clean out the guest bedroom to get it ready for Chris’ parents.  They’re coming for Thanksgiving- so are Lisa, John and the girls but they’re staying in Greeley.  So I spent a couple hours in Longmont and then headed back to C Rock.  It was starting to snow but the roads weren’t bad at all.  Since Chris was working during the day we recorded the Penn State vs Indiana football game and watched it Saturday night.  It wasn’t a very exciting game so I was yawning and ready for bed by 10pm!  Chris had the late-night feeding that night thank goodness!

Speaking of late night feeding, Chris was really unlucky on Sat night.  Skylar was asleep from about 7:30pm til 11pm but when she woke up she had absolutely no interest in eating at all.  So Chris was up til about 1:30am trying to get her to drink her bottle.  Poor Chris!  I had been able to get her to finish her bottle while I was at Bill/Jen’s house during the day but she was super slow and it was painful- but she drank it at least!  Then again on Sunday she was pretty cranky about not drinking her bottle- who knows what was going on with her…

And, man oh man, did I learn a lesson on Sunday night!  She had a late nap (from about 3-5pm) so I was attempting to keep her up til about 8pm and then give her a bath, feed her and put her to bed earlier.  She drank all 6oz in the bottle and was looking pretty sleepy but then she totally woke up at the end and was alert and seemed like she wanted more.  So I decided to make a couple more ounces using the nightime formula (it’s a thicker formula designed to keep her belly feeling fuller longer)- man was that a BAD idea!  She was kinda fussy when I started giving her that bottle so I figured it was just her usual fussiness at night- so I went upstairs to her room where there was less noise and distractions.  As soon as I sat down with her in the recliner she became a geyser!  I’m pretty sure several ounces came out of her and went all over her and me!  It even came out her nose!  I felt so bad for her!  I’m not 100% sure that it was the mixing of the formulas that did it but it seems pretty logical (in hindsight!) that that was a bad plan and one should not mix formula types!  Lesson learned.  So that was at ~9pm when she spewed and it took us/me til about 10pm to get her cleaned up and calmed down enough to drink a little more and then fall asleep.  Jeez- what a night.

And, then, of course, she woke up in the middle of the night hungry (b/c she only drank about 2oz after we cleaned her up but I”m pretty sure about 4oz had come out of her)- so I fed her at about 1:30am and she had 2 more ounces.  And then in the AM we couldn’t get her to drink much either- she only had about 3oz (when she usually does about 5-6oz per feeding).  So we were wondering what was going on with her!  But Chris just emailed me to let me know she had a full bottle at 9:30am at daycare- whew!  Hopefully she’ll be back to her usual self!

Speaking of daycare- here’s the photo of her from Friday:

And 1 from today of her napping:

  

I took a couple photos on Sat at Bill/Jen’s house but I’ll have to upload them tonight.

Oh yeah- we got a bunch of snow on Sunday- probably ~12inches.  So I didn’t leave the house at all on Sunday- did some laundry, vacuumed, played with Skylar and watched some football (darn Broncos and Eagles losing!).  I cooked a London Broil, baked potatoes and green beans for dinner on Sunday and it was yummy- if I do say so myself!  So, overall, a very uneventful weekend but a weekend is better than any day at work!!!

And 1 last final note- I don’t think I wrote this in any of my other blog posts but HB tore her ACL the other week.  I think it was last Friday, 11/6.  I had gotten home from work early-ish (well, before the sun went down anyway) and went outside to clean up the dog run (yuck!).  I let the dogs out in the yard to run and play and then later that night I noticed that HB was really limping and wouldn’t put any weight on her back, right leg.  I figured/hoped that it was just because she’s getting older and played too hard.  But when she still wouldn’t put any weight on her leg Saturday we decided to take her to the vet.  We were kinda scared into taking her to the vet because of our friend Naveen’s experience with his Golden, Benny.  Benny is a couple years older than our dogs (I think he was 12) and he tripped going down the stairs and hurt his leg on a Saturday.  So Naveen took him to the emergency vet place on Saturday and they told him Benny broke his leg and did some other tests and found out he had cancer as well.  Then Benny went downhill quickly on Sunday so Naveen took him back to the vet ER where they decided to keep him overnight.  Naveen got a call at about 1am saying to hurry up and come say good bye because it looked like the end was near for Benny.  Naveen got to the vet ER just in time to say goodbye to Benny and then he was gone.  I was literally crying when I read Naveen’s email telling what had happened.  So, since HB is getting older, we decided to take her to the vet that day rather than waiting to see if she’d get better.  They took some xrays and said her ACL was torn- and this was another vet place other than our usual vet since they didn’t have any appointments for Saturday.  We took HB to our usual vet on Tuesday and they confirmed the torn ACL.  So they recommended an ortho dr in the Springs (the SAME ortho vet who operated on Nittany’s shoulder 8 years ago!).  We’ll probably wait til January (after the holidays) to get it fixed.  They told us that we don’t HAVE TO get it fixed but that arthritis would probably set in earlier, she wouldn’t be able to run/play as much if we didn’t.  So- anywho- there’s another exciting story with the dogs.  If it’s not HB’s liver, it’s her torn ACL!  And I had a co-worker way back when Nittany had his surgery done who had a chocolate lab as well and he tore both his ACLs.  She took her dog to the ortho vet in the Springs (she’s the 1 who recommended this guy to me) and loved him- she also said that he told her that once your dog tears 1 ACL there’s a much better chance that they’re going to tear the other one.  Ugh.  I wonder if they give you a discount on that 2nd surgery???? Doubt it.