The Burrs In Our Saddles

I just realized that I never posted about Christmas or New Year. Christmas: It was superb. We stayed home for the first time in I can't remember how long. It was just our family. Triple M, The Father, and Me. Wonderful. We got up Christmas morning about 8:00 (heaven) and opened all our presents. It didn't take long, but sure was fun. Unfortunately I videoed the whole thing and have no still pictures to post. If I can ever find the cable to download my videos, I will. Later that day, we had to do a Barium study on a dog at the vet hopsital. Basically, that consisted of giving a boxer a ton of barium to watch it move through the intestines via digital radiography. It had been vomiting for the last I can't remember how long and not getting better so we had to see if it was blocked by something. After taking a bunch of x-rays over the afternoon, The Father decided that he was going to have to do exploratory surgery the next day--the barium was pretty thin from about half way t...

M1 went to the dentist yesterday to get her first teeth pulled. Her front tooth is having a hard time coming in (the one that got knocked out clear in the beginning of October) because there is no room. So she got 2 baby teeth (that haven't started to get loose yet) pulled to make room for the permanent teeth trying to come in. While we were there, we had the dentist pull one that was about to fall out anyway, making 3 missing teeth. And to top it all off, she bit herself when she was numb so her lip swelled up like I've never seen a lip swell up. She stayed home from school today so that the mean kids at school wouldn't hurt her feelings. If it were me, I wouldn't want to go to school either. Sad girl. The woes of losing teeth.