Little Hayden got his not-so-little fuzzies chopped a week ago today. I was so worried that he wouldn't do well under anesthesia because of his murmur. But the vet said that he did great and that he was such a good dog, doing everything that he was asked to do. Awwww! My little boy is so sweet!! He was sent home with some meds for pain and valium for sedation, and with instructions to keep him calm and sedated for 7-10 days. Uh, yeah, we have a problem there. Boxer pup and calm and sedated are complete oxy-morons! He was quiet for the first night and a little into the next day but he's been his normal, happy, bouncy self since then. Even with us giving him three doses of valium a day...
School is starting for the kids tonight. I'm really hopeful that they'll learn some good skills from this class. I'm taking Hayden and Grampa is taking Abbi. Thank goodness for Grampa because I would've had to leave one at home while I took the other to class, and that would not a happy boxer make! The skills learned in the class is all dependant on how "smart" the dogs are going into it so I'm hoping that there aren't too many or any "dumb" dogs there tonight because then
I will get bored and feel like I spent money to teach my dogs to sit. Again. But then again, my dogs might be the dumb ones in the class and holding all of the other ones up!!!
Following tradition, I'll take first day of school pictures of them tonight. All pretty, and p-o'd, with their snoot loops and leashes on.
Josh and I haven't been doing much lately. We went to the fair last Sunday and spent ALL DAY THERE! I tell ya, if you ever want to feel pretty, go to the fair. We stayed later than we usually do because we wanted to see the demolition derby at the end of the night. Why it's fun to watch people SMASHING the heck outta perfectly good cars (most often classics, a T-Bird in this case) is beyond me. But it IS fun!!
We're still in the process of moving but should be done in a couple of weeks. Every time we go to the duplex, we bring a little more of the little stuff with us. We can't do much more than that because we're waiting to get the carpets cleaned, which is waiting on us being done painting. I. Hate. Painting. I think I've done enough painting in this last week to last me for a long, long time.... But it's looking really nice though and I can actually see the progress, so that makes me feel a little better. We did an off-white-ish color on three walls in the master bedroom and, for lack of a better description, an army green on the fourth wall. We tore out the existing closet storage and have installed wire shelving. We have a TON more storage available now! Which means more clothes! Right???? In the second bedroom, we did the same army green on the top of a white chairrail with a dark chocolate brown on the bottom. The contrast of the dark colors and the white chairrail and baseboards looks really nice! Quite the change from the wasabi green and bright raspberry pink that was in there before!! We're also painting the once dark brown doors, white. It really makes a difference in the place and lightens it up nicely. We're lucky to be living in a place that my gramma owns so she's given us the freedom to do whatever we want to it. We still have a lot to do to the place, and quite a few things to buy, but we're excited to move in there and even more excited to GET OUT of the apartment!! Abbi and Hayden have been coming along with us pretty much every time we go out to the duplex so even though they're still a little uncomfy with the place, they're getting more used to it. However, Abbi, in her princess-like self, won't go outside to potty at night by herself. Guess she doesn't like pottying in the dark. Who does though???
