Updates.....

It's been a while since I've posted anything, so I thought I would catch you up a bit :)
Zoe is doing great. She is starting to take some initiative on going to the potty, but of course it is only on the days she wants to. She has had a stuffy nose for a while now and we are thinking it is thanks to 3 molars coming through at once. I'm so ready to be done with this teething stuff for a few months! She is talking all our heads off from the time she gets up to when she falls asleep. Her favorite saying at the moment is "Where is it?" She has been in gymnastics and swim lessons for the past few weeks. She absolutely loves the gymnastics and is taking to the idea of learning to swim.
Buckeye is healing well. We took her back to the surgeon last Wednesday and she was very happy with her progress. She has another two weeks on a leash with increasing walks each day. After two weeks, she is free to roam - right over to the neighbors, I'm sure!
Ryan has been busy, but enjoying his time with the little lady. He loves waking her up in the morning and spending the mornings with her. He is the one taking her to swim lessons and has said a million times how much fun he has with her. He bought a new toy at an auction a few weeks ago and loves it....a Kubota 1100 RTV (aka. a super mini truck). I caught him driving it to get the mail the other day! I'm just excited that he will have something to actually plow the driveway with instead of spending forever using the snowblower. I'm not so excited that he is now talking about trying to get some snow removal contracts.
I'm doing fine. I've been extremely busy and am very ready for spring break and the beach! I am feeling very old today because I had a student participant start in my classroom. She will be there for 4 weeks and will be teaching at least one lesson a day. She seems great and has already started taking some initiative. I'm looking forward to a little bit of down time so that I can start organizing my room for the end of the year.
Baby #2 - is still growing....but it's really "wittle" as Zoe would say. I'm still not feeling so hot and lacking energy, but I'm surviving. I'm 16 weeks today so I just keep thinking that I'm almost halfway there! We go back to the doctor next week and would guess that we will schedule our ultrasound then. We have decided that we are not going to find out the sex and are not going to share any names. We had such a fun time with this the first time and we are excited about doing it the same way this time!
That's about it in a nutshell! Sorry I don't have any pictures to post right now, that would require me to get off the couch and find the camera - and I'm just too tired and lazy right now! :)

Castles

All Zoe wanted for Christmas was a "puter" and blocks....which of course, she got....and guess what she plays with all the time....both of them!
She plays with the blocks a little more than the computer. She loves to build castles and daddy loves to have her watch him build castles using all of her blocks. I finally caught them on camera the other day - usually, by the time I get my camera, Zoe has knocked the castle over.
This would be pictues of a castle that daddy built while Zoe watched ;-)

The infamous paper towel

For those of you that haven't heard this story, we have been getting a kick out of it for a few weeks now because it's just ongoing.
A few weeks ago, while I was working on a paper for my master's (I was sitting at my laptop with a pad of paper and a text book), and Zoe gathered up one of her books along with her little laptop. She climbed up on the couch next to me. When we asked her what she was doing, she said "Me working on paper towel too" :)
It was just so cute!
So, the other day, she got her computer again, climbed up on the fire, and told us she was working on her paper towel "again".
Gotta love her :)

Happy Valentine's Day...a week late

I finally have a little break from my master's and decided to catch up with some pictures and blogging. I didn't get out to get Ryan anything for Valentine's Day because of all the snow and not feeling well....so I decided to take an idea from my friend Jen's website and make him a special gift from Zoe :)
She spent about 10 minutes putting the tissue paper on the contact paper. She ended up getting mad because if she dropped a piece it would stick to the tissue paper outside of the heart.
Anyway, it turned out very cute and Ryan liked it :) I was also able to finally get out this past week and got him an OSU sweatshirt.

Basket full of goodies...

I had a check-up with the OB tonight and Zoe and Ryan tagged along. As we were checking out, Zoe noticed a basket sitting on the counter. At her doctor she is used to this basket being full of stickers....
She looked at this basket and said "Mommy, Zoe wants sticker"..........it was a basket full of condoms :)
She was quite confused when we all started cracking up and said she couldn't have one of those stickers....thankfully the nurses had a roll of real stickers behind the desk! :)

Mr. Fix It

For as long as I have known Ryan, I have never known him to willingly attempt to fix something. I always tease that he doesn't even know how to use a screw driver.
Well, last Friday was an absolutely horrendous morning - partly because our fridge/freezer stopped working. We lost all of the food that we had in it and were really hoping that we weren't also going to have to replace the fridge on top of all the food.
Ryan called Chris - our Mr. Fix it - and he was working all weekend and wouldn't have been able to fix it until this past Monday. He told Ryan that he had the part on his truck and it wasn't hard to fix.
So, Ryan was all gung ho about fixing it and after a few bumps in the road, HE DID IT!
Of course, I had to take a picture so that years down the road, Zoe knows that her daddy has fixed at least one thing :)

Buckeye update

I don't remember if I ever posted what we decided to do with Buckeye, so I'm sorry if I repeat anything.
We were debating on whether to fix Buckeye's legs or to see how they would heal on their own. Well, as we were debating, she got out the front door and sprinted to the neighbors, by the time she got back, she could hardly walk and was then favoring the leg that she had hurt last summer. We waited the weekend out to see if she would get any better and she pretty much was just dragging both back legs - it was pitiful.
We reluctantly scheduled an appointment for her to go see a new surgeon on that Monday. Ryan took her down and they decided to replace both back ACL's at the same time. She had to stay from Monday to Thursday night and was not happy with us when we picked her up.
She has to spend a lot of time in her cage to keep her calm and restricted. Zoe has been a great sister to her. She even would get in her cage to pet her, read to her, and play play-doh.
She goes this coming Monday to get her stitches taken out and has another 4 weeks of extreme restrictions.
In the end, it didn't cost as much as expected and Buckeye is acting pretty much back to normal, so it was worth it....