First up, here is our new bunny, Strawberry the 2nd:
This one is, indeed a girl. Yay. On the other hand, she is rather aggressive. Not yay. She chases Shortcake around and nips at her hiney and pulls tufts of fur off of her bum. Poor Shortcake! The funny thing is, shortcake still really enjoys her company...as long as they are in separate contained areas and can still see each other. :) Anyway, this means we will have to have a unit with two separate living quarters for the bunnies. Just keeps getting interesting! I let them run around the living, dining and kitchen areas in the evenings because they will go back to their cages to do their business. That's a plus. :) Oh, and in all the reading I did the night Strawberry started getting all Kra-Z, the consensus seems to be in favor of getting them both spayed since I have no intention of breeding them. They are apparently quite susceptible to getting cervical cancer. Not so yay, again. :( Oh, well, they are already part of the fam, so we will just figure it all out. :)
In other happenings, Brea is doing lots!
She is still very serious about her food and can pack it in like nobody's business! Its quite amazing to behold, to which many who have been present during the process of this astounding feat can testify. I think the most astounding part of it is that she is so stinkin' tiny and we are all very lost as to where she stores it all before it makes its way out of the southbound end! Remarkable, I'm tellin' ya!
She is very vocal while she eats, too and will let whoever is feeding her know in no uncertain terms if she is not satisfied at the speed at which her food is being shoveled down her gullet. Its pretty funny. :) She is a bananaholic. LOVES her some bananas! She can also put away some grapes. I'm thinking we need to plants some banana trees and some grape vines to keep up with her! Whew!
Since I am really bad with the concept of time and keeping up with dates and all, I will just go with its been several weeks plus, since she started mimicking sounds. Her first full word is Mama, but I'm pretty sure she tries to say banana, too, which comes out more of a Bah. She is pretty equally partial to both Sam and I, so I'm working on her saying Daddy, too... ;p
She has been able to toddle along holding on to the edges of furniture for some time now, too and was able to stand up, unassisted for a second or two at a time for a week or so, but I just witnessed her do the whole shebang and then stay standing up all by her lonesome for many seconds 'til she decided to squat down to crawl some more this very morning. She's getting there and then they will all be running around after each other. Curiouser and Curiouser! :)
We have had a bit of craziness for the past 3 weeks. Braden got strep throat, then antibiotics, then we went out of town to see Nina and Padrino (that will be a separate post after picture editing has been achieved ;) and the last day we were there, Braden's strep throat came back. Ugh. So, we traveled home and the next evening he was seen and sure enough it was a reoccurrence! This time I requested the shot. Braden tried so hard to be okay while it was being administered, but didn't quite succeed. Poor little guy! :( It did, however, make him feel better in a jiffy, so yay! The rest of that week was a blur while I readied us to travel once again. This time it was to East Texas for my Granny's surprise 80th birthday party (this, too, will be a separate post :). I really went back and forth about whether or not I wanted to go, but I'm really glad we did. We have double dvd players for the car that were bought quite some time ago, but for a time we could only use one of them because the cord that came with it would not reach across both rows of the van. Bummer. Then, at some point, said cord became lost in the shuffle that is the garage. Double bummer. So, I ordered two cords and this trip both players were in operation along with a set of headphones that got passed to whoever was sitting in the solo seat next to Brea. We also had a set of legos that was great entertainment. Both the drive there and back were quite tame and pleasant, I must say. I think we may have found a winning combination. I'm not willing to try it out again just yet, though. ;)
I have to mention something Ailey said the other day. We were driving in the van and I had the windows rolled down and we got going at a higher speed and she said, "MOM! You're blowing my head off!" Hahaha!
We have a little wrist rest for our track pad and one day Zekey came up to me with it on his chin and said, "I'm a daddy."
Then it became a mustache...
I honestly don't know what Braden was using it for....a sleep mask, perhaps?
Braden has taken to doing this, um, interesting facial expression with his face lately....Kid phases are so funny!
All the kids are doing well and really enjoy playing together....usually. We do have the occasional non-enjoyable occurrences, of course. ;p I will have to do a more detailed update later. Right now we are so stinkin' busy and I'm ready for things to SLOW DOWN! We'll see how that goes.
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