Ten On Tuesday - Our Week In Review

1) First and foremost, today's is Chris's last day of the daily injections 3x/day! He'll meet with Dr. Dressler (our local oncologist) on Thursday and will be setup on a schedule for the monthly injections! He did great during this 2 week period, but it's starting to get to him. He's also running out of places to stick himself! 42 injections in 14 days is a lot! His poor belly has a ton of black and blue spots all over it!

2) Our poor little Zoe girl is hobbling around on 3 legs right now! She slipped on the wood floor in the family room a little over 2 weeks ago and limped for a day or two. She then seemed better for a few days and started to limp again a bit here and there. We took her to the vet a week ago and he thought everything felt okay and gave us some pills for her. This past Friday night she started limping pretty badly and has been favoring her rear, right leg pretty heavily. She's keeping it up most of the time and is hopping around on one rear leg - she's completely breaking our hearts!! Chris took her back to the vet yesterday and they want to take an x-ray. Because Zoe is so frightend at the vet's office and spends the whole time she's there trying to leave, they'll need to sedate her in order to take an x-ray and play around with her leg - so she's going back to the vet tomorrow morning for all of that. Hopefully she'll be back on 4 legs really soon!

3) We had a great Thanksgiving this year and we were able to stay local, which was nice! We hit a lot of traffic coming back from Long Island last year, so it was nice not to have to deal with that again. We were able to spend Thanksgiving at my mom's with ALMOST both of our entire families together (we missed you Aunt Trae!) which was great. We certainly have a lot to be thankful for this year, but we're already secretly hoping that 2009 has better things in store for us than 2008 did!

4) The day after Thanksgiving, we made our annual trip out to Jones' Tree Farm to get our Christmas tree! We even managed to select the perfect size tree this year! Normally we end up with a tree that's far too big for the spot we have to put it! Shane is still trying to figure out what a tree is doing in our family room!

5) We took Shane to see Santa a few weeks ago and for the first time he cried when we sat him down on Santa's lap! This will be his 3rd Christmas, and the first where he's starting to understand things and is actually getting into the holiday spirit - but he could do without the big, jolly guy in the red suit!

6) Shane's new favorite thing to do is to find anything shaped like a ball (it could be an apple, an ornament, an orange - he doesn't care!), throw it across the room he's standing in and then yell at one of us to "catch a ball"!!! Too cute! If we could only get him to actually try to throw the "ball" towards us, instead of away of us!

7) I finally forced myself to get a "holiday-ish" picture of Shane on Sunday and then sat down and did our Christmas cards. Certainly not my best effort, but it's a card none the less! So keep your eye on your mailbox in the coming weeks!

8) The holiday season is totally upon us! We've done NO shopping and NO baking! Normally, by now, we're done with both of these things! We do have our first holiday gathering this coming Saturday with the Sullivan and Finn clans and we couldn't be more excited! We're ready for some holiday cheer around here! There was even a rumor that Santa might stop by!!!

9) Bedtime has become a 4 letter word at our house! We start our bedtime routine around 7:30 with a bath. 3 hours later Shane is FINALLY asleep! He'll do anything and everything he can to avoid going to bed! We finally had to start putting a baby gate up in his doorway to keep him from coming out of his room (we do take it down when we go to bed so he could get to us during the night if he had to) and even this doesn't deter him! Last night I found him sitting in the rocker in his room watching his Sesame Street Christmas Carol DVD!!! Did I mention that he now knows how to use the remotes???

10) Shane LOVES to help out with the dogs lately! He helps me feed them dinner by scooping out the dry food from the bin and putting it into their bowls (and I'd be lying if I said he didn't help himself to some dry food while he was at it!) and he'll then run out into the garage and bring me in a can of wet food to mix into their bowls! He'll also let the dogs in and out of the slider when they're looking to go outside! And when HE thinks it's time for them to come back in, he'll open the slider and stand there calling for them by yelling "Woof!", "Woof!" - cutest thing ever! He doesn't call for them by name, or even by calling for "doggie". He simply calls for his "woofs!" We are SO in love with this little boy of ours!