Thurston and Lovey have a home!

Thurston and Lovey, our foster dogs, have a new home down in Tucson!!! They just left for the trek down there and I haven't even cried yet!!! They were, are, really great dogs and if we didn't have 2 of our own to love on, we would have probably adopted them!!! It will be weird to go to the bathroom alone now though although I must say I will enjoy the privacy again! I'll post when we get our newest foster, TBD!

1st Dentist Appointments

Avery and Andon had their first dentist appointments on Thursday! They did so great!
Andon:
Did whatever was asked of him
Has to stop sucking his fingers as it's showing in his bite (but will get a present mailed to him if he stops care of the Dentist)
Had watermelon "tickle toothpaste"
Now is using a green Sponge Bob toothbrush

Avery:
Protested laying back in the chair but wore my sunglasses once she finally did
Has textbook teeth and bite (the dentist would have never guessed she ever sucked her fingers)
Also had watermelon "tickle toothpaste"
Now is using a purple Snow White toothbrush

Andon in the Hospital

Andon was in the hospital last week for 3 nights. I was not liking his breathing when he went to bed on Thursday night, the day after his b-day and it seemed worse than when he had pneumonia. Of course, Mark was flying! I called the on-call nurse and she said to take him down to the ER. So my mom rushed over to stay with Avery and Andon and I headed down there. They gave him a breathing treatment in the ER and then we waited for about 45 minutes to see if it allowed him to breathe better. The dr decided to give him another one along with another 45 minute wait. Then they decided to give him some oxygen through his nose and the nurse commented that "his stats were coming back up". I asked what stats he was having difficulty with and it was his blood oxygen levels. They were not coming up on his own so they decided to admit him to the pediatric hospital. Mark was in Burbank and was able to be at the hospital by 10am, thank goodness!

So I spent the night with him in the hospital bed but neither of us were able to get any sleep because by that time it was 4am and his O2 monitor was beeping left and right! To make a long story short, we ended up staying in there through Sunday afternoon with 2 chest x-rays, breathing treatments every 4 hours, steroids every 12 hours. It was a long weekend and they still are not sure what caused it. They do not think it's asthma given his family history and the fact that he wheezes on the way in, not on the way out (which is a clear asthma sign). It may have been allergy induced or a cold-gone-bad...no pneumonia like I had originally thought.

Happy Birthday...We are 4!!!

My favorite picture...."Please Stay Off the Stage"....Andon can't play the "What, I can't read yet" card for too much longer!!! Andon was so excited to get the zebra jeep and I was able to catch a quick shot of the zebras in the background!

We made it to Legoland for their birthday last week and we had so much fun!!! It was a perfect age for them and we will have to go back a few times before they get too old! The first thing that got it off to a good start was that our rental car was a PT Cruiser...the kids were in heaven! We got their late so we pretty much ate dinner and went to bed for an early wake-up for breakfast.

I think my favorite picture is of Andon standing on the stage while we were waiting for it to open that says, "Please stay off the stage"....typical!!! Avery's favorite ride was the Dragon Roller Coaster...she went twice...and Andon's was "the cars that we can drive by ourselves". They were little Lego cars that they got pretty good at driving! It was too chilly to play in the water, although we did get pretty wet on the pirate ride where there are cannons and squirt guns everywhere so that kept us cold!! We stayed at a hotel that had a family pool with a water play area so after we had a long day at Legoland, we were planning on heading back to the hotel to play in the splash pad and it was closed for treatment...that's the down part to going during the week. They promised us it would be open by 10am the next morning...the day we were leaving!

The next morning we woke up early and went to the beach and the kids were done after about 20 minutes. I can't blame them because it was FREEZING! So we went back to the hotel, washed off and headed straight for the pool and yippee, it was open! So we played for about an hour and the kids spent more time in the hot tub than playing!

All in all, we would go back and after seeing how close some of the other hotels are we might just stay at another hotel...although the one we stayed at was not too bad!

I can't believe the kids are 4...time goes by so fast!!! They are not feeling well today, their actual b-day, so we are hoping to have a better night than last night!

Our new twins??????

Ha, ha...did I getcha? No we are not pregnant!

We are fostering a set of twin pugs, Thurston and Lovey (yep, The Milliionaire and his wife from Gilligan's Island). They are so sweet and get along great with Zowie and Amanda. I don't think that we'll keep them too long as they are just great dogs they will get adopted FAST!!! We just had Z and A groomed and it's so funny that Thurston looks just like Amanda! Can you tell who's who in the pictures??? You don't get any points for finding Zowie!