We had to say good-bye to our old friend Zoey today. Zoey was our beloved Lab, she would have been 13 on Valentine’s day. We have had her since our daughter was 3 years old, she can’t even remember a time without Zoey in our family.
This picture of Zoey was taken in October, on her way to the vet’s office. October was when she started going downhill, but it’s only in the past few weeks that she really took a turn for the worse. She loved going in the car, and even to the vet’s office!
My sweet Hubby took her to the vet today, in the car (her favorite) to have her put to sleep. He got the toughest job. I just stayed home and sat on the couch with Christine, all snuggled up, while cried together. Joshua was down for his nap during most of it, but he was up for the beginning of it. Christine crying, and Joshua laughing.
Joshua laughs hysterically when someone is sobbing. I don’t know what it is about it that he finds so humorous, but he laughs his booty off. It’s mainly a good thing though. It’s tough to be sad with Josh there laughing and so happy. During one of her sobbing spells today, Christine said “I wish I was like Joshua!”. He is our boy who is always happy! He does, of course, get hurt and cry, and he worries when mama leaves him with someone, but he’s oblivious to to stuff like the dog dying. He’s oblivious at this stage in his life, I don’t know if he’ll remain that way or not as he grows.
She was such a sweet girl, we’ll miss our Zoey!
Love one another,
December 11, 2007
Meet Happy! He will be arriving on Saturday evening. Happy is coming to be Joshua’s best buddy, we are going to train him to be Joshua’s therapy dog! We are all so excited! He is a Golden Doodle, his mom is a standard Black Poodle and his papa is a Golden Retriever. Already, he is much bigger than he is in this photo, I can’t wait pick him up at the airport on Saturday, he is flying her all the way from Tennesee, in a plane of course. :-)
I am quite sure I will have LOTS of phots of the two boys together next week!
April 18, 2007
I am makin’ up my own little thing for Friday. :-) There are just so many pictures that I want to share!
This picture is of Joshua hanging out with our dog Zoey. Joshua loves Zoey, Zoey puts up with Joshua. :-) Josh doesn’t love Zoey because he is a dog lover, or because he likes to hug and cuddle with her. Nope, he has alterior motives! Yes, Joshua! The reason that he can often be seen this close to Zoey is really because he loves to rake her fur with his fingers, which are wet from being in his mouth, and get all the hair that he can on them and then put it in his mouth! You probably find that disgusting, but Joshua thinks it’s…OH SO YUMMY! In fact, he is the only person in the family that is happy that Zoey sheds, what seems like a whole ‘nother dog each day!
A boy and his dog…
March 30, 2007
I have a sick little one again today, but we still went to a birthday party, for my nephew Evan, they are all snotty over there too so why not continue to share the germs? :-) Joshua isn’t running a fever though, just a very snotty nose, and a cough, a glaze to his eyes…poor Pooh Bear. I wore him in the Ergo for a lot of the day, and he was very content there. I am finding it to be more and more comfortable all the time, my body did have to get used to lugging my 28 pound boy around! Now we both love it!
Hubby spent most of the day at his mom’s house doing our taxes, and I’m so excited to announce that with our adoption tax credit we are going to be out of debt! A car and house payment only! Pooh Bear told Daddy he is hoping for a pony out of the deal, but Daddy wasn’t buying! Shucks! Just think of all the benefit of our own hippotherapy we get out of a pony! What a huge blessing, we are so thankful!
Mee Mee and Bubbie (my mom and dad) are in town and Christine is spending the night over at my sister’s house with them tonight. The cousins were thrilled! It’s quite exciting when your big cousin spends the night you know! Speaking of Christine, on Friday she began her volunteer position as my nephew Eli’s aide at the homeschool co-op that my sister’s family attends. Eli is 4, with special needs and still non-verbal, so he was having to attend the baby nursery with his mom and little brother all last semester and he was soooo bored in there. I suggested to my sister that Eli should have an aide to help him to be in the class with his peers, and my Christine volunteered to be the one. They both had such a great time, she came home so excited, telling me all about Eli’s teachers and who played with him and how he likes to eat crayons but she helped him to color like the other little ones. It is going to be so good for both of them, I just thank God for her servant’s heart for her cousins! I had wonderful big cousins who were awesome to me too when I was little so I really know how much she means to all those little guys.
I always end with “Love one another”…I just want you all to know that all your words of encouragment and your prayers for my Violet make me feel so loved! Thank you all! I will personally respond to all of you as soon as I can. I would have liked to have done so already, but recently I have been buried in Violet’s case file, which is only about a foot high!
Love one another!~Yvonne
February 18, 2007
My new Ergo carrier, see post below I am too lazy to link again, came in the mail today. So far…I LOVE IT! Joshua’s weight is amazingly light feeling on my back while wearing it. He wasn’t all too sure about it at first, but he it didn’t take long before he decided it was pretty cool. I told him he’s more like a koala bear than a pooh bear when he’s in it though! Sissy snapped a pic for me to show y’all. Now we are off to the store!
Have a wonderful weekend!
February 10, 2007
Joshua did so well today!!! Thank you so much, to everyone, for your prayers on behalf of my little Pooh Bear, they were felt. I felt such peace today!
Joshua did (hooray!) fall asleep during the EEG, just like they needed for him to, which is very good because now at least they’ll know that they got a clear reading of his patterns. Hubby and I were floored when he fell asleep, but I guess that we should not have been with so many prayers being offered that he would. He also came out from under the anesthesia better than he ever has before! He let me hold him in the rocking chair for 45 minutes or so, all cuddled up against me, while he drank a lot of juice. He was pretty dehydrated from not having many liquids all day, but other than that he was just fine. By the time we all got home he acted as if it all had never happened! It was such a completely different experience than we have had before, I am so thankful.
Being in a children’s hospital all day really makes you thankful for the health of your child! I saw parents and grandparents in tears after consultations with doctors, and I saw little ones sitting in waiting rooms with patches of hair missing from chemotherapy treatments. I sat and prayed for them, silently, and through tears, thanked God for the health of my two dear ones. We never know what tomorrow may bring do we? I will hold on to my babies a bit tighter tonight, as I remember what a blessing it is that the Lord has entrusted them to me, and that only He knows how long that will be.
Joshua has gone to bed early, and now so will I. Getting up at 4 a.m. after only three hours of sleep is just a wee bit exhausting. :-)
Love one another, and hold tight to those babies of yours!~Yvonne
December 28, 2006
Hey everyone! I am a nervous Mama tonight and I would sure appreciate your prayers for Joshua tomorrow. He will be having a sedated MRI tomorrow morning, before that will be an EEG, that he will need to fall asleep naturally for. Please join me in praying that he will be able to fall asleep for the EEG, so that it won’t have to be repeated again. I will be waking him
up at 4 a.m. and he can play in the bath for a while, and then we’ll just play for the remainder of the time I guess, then off to the nuerologist office at 8 a.m., where hopefully he will cooperate and sleep! After that we go over to the hospital at 10:30, there they will put him under sedation so that he will be completely still for MRI, so we can get some pretty pictures of Pooh Bear’s brain. :-) My prayer for the MRI is that it will go smoothly and that he will come out of sedation without complications. He had a rough time the last time they sedated him, he couldn’t sit up unassisted for the rest of the day, even 12 hours afterward! He always looks so scared when he comes to again, and since I he isn’t that much of a cuddler, he is difficult to comfort. He is able to sit still for much longer periods of time nowadays so I pray that will make a difference for him.
Ok, well I am off to get ready for bed, 4 a.m. will come way to fast for me!
Thank you all for your prayers!
Love one another!~Yvonne
December 27, 2006
We had an absolutely wonderful Christmas eve celebration with Hubby’s family tonight.Every year someone in the family stands up before the Chinese gift exchange begins and reads something they have either found or written that tells of the true meaning of Christmas to them. Hubby was chosen this year and I cannot tell you how proud I was of him, he chose the topic of adoption, our adoption of Joshua-telling everyone more about him-and then tying that in with how we are all adopted sons and daughters of God. We are brothers and sisters of the Christ whom we await to come again, the Christ Child whose birthday that we celebrate tomorrow. My Hubby was so emotional while speaking to everyone, he has such a soft heart, I just kept thinking how I love that man. His love for the Lord has always, from the very beginning has been one of the most beautiful and attractive things about him to me. I thank God for him!
Everyone else is in bed, and I just finished preparing our breakfast, a baked french toast casserole that has a praline topping. Sounds delicious, but I have not ever made it before, so I really hope that it’s a yummy one! I’ll make some bacon and hash-browns to go with it in the morning. It’s a surprise to everyone, I didn’t want them to know what it is until they wake up in the morning. :-) Hubby grew up with his mama making homemade waffles every Christmas morning, but try as I might, I can get them quite right, I never get my egg whites fluffy enough or folded in quite the right way. So I am hoping this new recipe will be a hit, and that after almost fifteen years of married life that we can have a new tradition! Ha,ha! A gal can hope can’t she?
Christine and I have discovered a new love this week…the movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. What a hoot! We love it, and I can’t believe that we haven’t seen it until now. We have already watched it four times! Check it out if you haven’t seen it yet and let me know if you liked it or not. Of course, if you don’t like musicals it won’t be your cup of tea. :-)
Here is a Christmas funny a friend sent me from the comic Family Circus, I think I remember that feeling as a kid. :-)
Well, I better get myself off to bed with the others. We have another day of lots of family. I can’t wait, it’s one of the best parts of Christmas to me!
Love one another! I pray that you will grow closer to our Saviour in the coming year!
Much love,
Yvonne
December 25, 2006
Josh has made some major progress using his gait trainer this week. The main thing that has made a difference is that he has grown to LIKE being in it, that is HUGE! Tonight he was cruising around in it with his sister helping and when it was time to get out and drink his night-night bottle he didn’t want to get out, he kept lunging for it again. That is just a totally different attitude for him to have about it. Bottle time is big on his list of great things to do each day, so if the gait trainer was winning over that then I know he likes it now. Last week he would scrunch his face up and try to slouch down out of it, wish I had that on video to show the difference!
Way to go Pooh Bear!!!
Love one another and smile!~Yvonne
December 21, 2006
