Electrical Plug Safety Covers

Today I watched Joey take a cord out of the wall socket it was plugged (very securely) into by pulling very hard. He then picked up the safety cover which was on the table nearby and stuck it back in the socket. Then, changing his mind about any impending danger, he pulled the safety cover back out, and plugged the cord (that was in the wall) back in.....three pronged cord and all.

So, either we will be changing our rules, or we will be replacing all the safety covers in the house.

M & M Juice

M & M Juice: What happens when your toddler has finished his "one more bite" of lunch and you decide that he can have a few M & M's as dessert, but he can't bring himself to chew and swallow that last bite, so he crams in all of his M & M's and basically just sucks on everything in his mouth (which later you may or may not have to scoop out the remains of the lunch he "ate") while the actual dessert melts away, and or dribbles onto his chin and bib, hence... M & M juice.

Happy Earth Day!

Happy Earth Day Everyone!

I have discovered that Earth Day, like Election Day will yield certain bargains if you are willing to hunt for them. Like these from Yahoo! or these from babycheapskate.

There are some cool things in there people! So, on Friday I am going to take advantage of one of those deals. I got an appointment at our local Paul Mitchell school to have my hair cut for $10!!! This is very exciting for me because a "cheap" haircut in the bay area would be like $20 or $25 and that is at your random strip mall no-name hair cut place (usually where I get my hair cut). It's also great for me (probably not everyone) because I mostly (ok fine! always.) wear my hair up, so the idea of a student cutting or styling my hair is of very little consequence to me! And still even more exciting because the cut hair is all being donated to an organization called Matter of Trust an organization that, among other things, weaves the donated hair into hair mats to soak up oil from spills. Random - I know, but cool too. On their website the home page picture is of SF Bay Area citizens cleaning up after the 2007 Cosco Busan oil spill.

So Happy Earth day (and week) everyone! Hope you find a neat way to enjoy it!

The Unsupervised

Buoyed by Joey's recent developing spoon abilities, I was sitting next to him while he was eating dinner, but not watching him. In fact I was reading blogs. When I turned to check on his progress I noticed that instead of his dinner, he had decided to use his spoon to consume all of his ketchup.

Joey: 1

Mommy: 0

Just In Case You're Interested...

In case you are interested in keeping up with the rapid growth of our wee pup, I'll be continuing the chart at the bottom of the blog... so you can view it by scrolling down your entire page. It's fun to get an idea of how fast he is growing. There won't be any rhyme or reason to the days we weigh him. They mostly coincide right now with bathing (we are trying to keep him used to water and getting a bath in the hopes that we don't have a huge stinky dog in our future) since that's where the scale is. Hope you check in occasionally!

Get Thee To a Bookstore!

... Because my husband's talented photographic work is featured on the current cover of CMYK magazine!

You can see the whole cover here. Since it is a quarterly publication, you should be able to buy the issue (supposedly at Barnes and Nobles or Borders) through the spring.

One Sick Puppy...

Awww...poor Ziggy is sick!! Without boring you all with the gory details (didn't I do that enough explaining Joey's potty-training ;-) we had noticed before we took Ziggy to the vet that he was a little "off" digestively, so we took in a sample to be tested.

We found out that he has Giardia :-( a pretty common, but annoying parasite found mostly among pets (and people who drink infected water). Matt has actually already had it once, most likely from overseas traveling and bad water.



Although it's very easy to treat in pets it would definitely have been causing him some discomfort (stomach cramping, lots of hunger) and extra fatigue. Since he started his antibiotics today he has been even more hungry, playful and energetic. We are seeing a whole new side of our puppy!! He is also on a special diet of (no dog food) white rice and boiled chicken with cottage cheese or scrambled eggs. He thinks this is the greatest thing ever and ate 4 times today each time begging and begging for more. It's hard to know how much he is really supposed to be eating or needs to eat since he's pretty much been sick for the week and a half that we've had him.

Hopefully within the next 4 days Ziggy will be back to normal and test negative for the parasite next Monday. Until then we need to be careful to keep him from other dogs (he still isn't done being vaccinated AND can infect others with Giardia) and be careful around him ourselves since any one of us, or Mocha could also get it.

*sigh* It's a really good thing this little puppy is so sweet already because he isn't off to an easy start. Contagious disease and eating us out of house and home...

What's next??