Exciting Changes!!

 Nathan has recently discovered that he LOVES Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.  As soon as he hears the song he stops what he is doing and gets in front of the tv and sits to watch it.  He will stay there for the entire show!!

 As part of school we have a Nevada history class.  One of the lessons in it is to visit a "spotlight" place in Nevada, so we went to see the dam bridge!  It was raining and I didn't bring the stoller so we didn't go on the hike up to the bridge and walk across it reading the historical facts.  But it was really cool and we are planning on going back to walk to bridge when we are a little better prepared in a few weeks.

The house across the street and down from us has been broken into 3 times within the last 2 weeks.  The family that lives there has a couple older kids and the mom stays home.  The house behind them is vacant as well as the home next to them. The burglars have been getting in through the vacant house behind them and going over the wall.  This bothers me bacause I am home all day with the kids alone, and Keith's schedule is crazy that he is not home at night alot, either gone all night or coming home very late.  Yes, I have access to a gun, but its not the same, so we adopted Onyi (on-ee).  She is 2 years old, 100 pounds and has a super mean bark but is SO sweet and super great with the boys.   We weren't looking to get a pet until after we moved and figured out life a little better, but with all thats going on in our neighborhood right now, we feel really good about our decision to get her.

AND......

Nathan is walking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Just behind his walker right now, or holding your fingers, but still my 9 month old is walking!!!

(two videos of Nathan walking)



update

 We had the boys pictures taken... here are some of our favorites!!

 Nathan turned 9 months!!  He has 4 teeth, 2 on top and 2 on bottom.  He LOVES to eat, play with his brothers and play in the water.  He is a super fast crawler and loves to race in turbo crawling speed down the hall having races with his brothers, he gets going so fast he trips himself and falls on his face!  He is also standing and if you don't watch him, can walk holding onto the water bottles, kitchen bench and the couch!  He is growing up so fast!!

AND we are now homeschooling David!  We officially pulled him out of school 2 weeks ago and enrolled in NVVA K12 program.  He LOVES it!!  It took a little getting used to, especially on Tommy's end that David isn't home to play that he has work to do, but now we got the hang of it and it is great!!  

Coco

 Coco died this morning.

Last week one of her eyes started hemorraging, we took her into the vet, ran tests and waited for results. All her blood work came back fine, but she was not able to see.  She just laid on the floor, wouldn't eat or drink because she couldn't find her food and water. Then we noticed her other eye was hemorraging.  We took her back to the vet and he kept her there for the last week to watch her.  The pressure in her eyes were dangerously high and he was concerned that she would lose her vision for good, her blood pressure was really high too.  We were trying to decide what we should do, if we should bring her home and hope her vision improves or if we should put her down.  This morning the vet called and told me that she had just had a stroke and that he thinks that it is her time to go and recommended we put her down.  We agreed and told him we would be down in a few hours to let David say goodbye to her and then he could put her down.  He asked if it would be ok to give her a sedative to make her more comfortable, I agreed.  The vet called me back within an hour and said he had given her 1/4 of a mild sedative and about half hour after he gave it to her she died.