the nuthouse

That is right. The Nuthouse has added a new member to the family. His name is Baxter and he is an adorable little Coton de Tulear (if I spelled it correctly). He is about 15-16 weeks old.




As you can imagine, the kids have taken to him like white on rice! Kaitlyn feels that she must carry him around and his feet can't touch the floor! Haha.

Dylan, who I thought would be a little apprehensive around the new guy, spent last night carrying him around and laying on the couch with him. Randi has a photo, so I will have to get her to post it.

But anyway, that wraps it up for now. Well, the only other thing to allow is that we ate battling a diarreah/vomiting bug with Dylan. But he is going to the docs office this morning, so hopefully we will find out what is up. But so far through all of it, no fever (knock on wood).

Just wanted to share several photos I took of the storm. Have to give props to my older brother for the suggestions of the awesome apps to work the photos with. It is really cool now that I am figuring some of them out.

Anyway, we decided to not risk the chance of power loss at our house, so we headed to Randi's folks to dodge that. They were just about 30 or so miles south-ward from our house, but it is night and day when it comes to the ice.

But Randi and I decided to test the road gods and head home this afternoon to check on the house. That is the photo of the branches on the ground below. There were two pretty good size branches that fell out of our pine tree right by Kaitlyn's room. But other than that, just snow and ice. Oh, and yes, cold! haha..

Anyway, will be heading home tomorrow morning and get the house stuff done hopefully. The roads should be ok from Sulphur to Hwy 1. But that highway is usually pretty rough, and it had its slick spots this afternoon. But that is all I have for now. Everyone stay safe out there!

Well the kids are most definitely growing into their own finally.

Dylan has now slept in his bed for 3 nights, the whole night!! Used to it was his bed till 1 or 2, then into mommy and daddy's bed. As you might imagine, that also meant no sleep for mommy and daddy. So this whole night in his bed thing is pretty awesome right now.

Kaitlyn is still doing really good in school. Her teacher even sent us a postcard about how good she has been. Kind of makes you feel good. And the icing on the cake (at the moment) is she has her first really good friend. And she has got to go to her house and play several times now! And what makes it even better is that I work with her friend's dad. Haha.

So I have discovered that when you know the other kid's parents, it sure makes life easier. Well, actually better than that, is that they live just about a 1/4 mile from us. That part we didn't know, but we like! Haha.

We hit the town tonight and had a little Santa Fe for dinner. So now we are home just trying to let the dinner settle and let the kids calm down a bit before we ring the bedtime bell. Hopefully we will be in for night #4 of Dylan in his own bed. I have my fingers and toes crossed!! lol

Most of you know that I am a sucker for wierd books. You can just look at my collection of Jim Morrison books, William Blake, The Prairie Traveler's Guide, The Man Book, and the list goes on.

Well, I have a new addition to the shelf. It is the Complete Rolling Stones Discography. It is 400+ pages of all Stones' albums and every song. For each album, it talks about what was going on with the band, the label, and just musical culture.

And then it has little interesting tidbits about each song. Very, very cool!!



And just for fun, to try and cheer me up since I start school tomorrow, we decided to dress the kids up in their cowboy/cowgirl garb. They were just so darn cute!! See for yourself.