I am so thrilled and proud of Peyton Manning and the Colts!!! And Tony Dungy and the whole team too! Way to go guys! It was definitely the best game of my whole life and I'm sure it was for every Colts fan everywhere! We had a great get together here at our house with my parents and sister-in-law and Max's cousins all in attendance. Max was rooting for the Bears but, alas, I won!! Ha Ha!! Sorry, I had to get that out since I had to contain myself in his presence.Our dog, Katie, had surgery about a week ago on her elbow. She had to have a piece of loose bone and some diseased bone removed from her joint. She is to be crate restricted for a 6 week recovery. I've no idea how to keep a one year old who has never been confined to a crate happy. She absolutely hates being in there and left alone. If we are in the room she will eventuallt settle down. If we have to leave to go out and she is in the crate she does her best to destroy whatever is available. This includes her dog bed, toys, and the crate itself. I'm afraid she is doing more damage to herself fighting the crate than if I just let her out. I've tried all kinds of new bones and toys, leaving the TV on so she might think someone is home, and letting our other dog stay inside to keep her company. Nothing but the drugs she had when she first came home work and we are out of those drugs. Obviously I cannot keep her drugged for 6 weeks. I can just see it now, "Hi my name is Katie and I'm dog drug addict." We have managed one week but I cannot imagine keeping this up for 5 more.
Tonight, we have friends coming in from California for a weekend visit. Andrew is Max's best friend and he is coming with his mom, Jaime. I am so excited for Max, and he is off the charts thrilled with the knowledge that Andrew will be spending 3 whole nights here at our house. I am very happy also to be getting a visit from Jaime who over the years has become a dear, dear friend of mine. I know we will get in some good visiting. Tomorrow we are going to the zoo but I'm not sure what else in on the agenda. We'll have to see how the weather holds up. Today it is raining on and off and slightly cooler than earlier this week.
Gail went on Tuesday and had a colonoscopy which went fine. No major problems there. They also did a scope of her esophagus. They took a biopsy of her esophagus because of her severe acid reflux and we'll have results next week. Today she is off to the dermatologist because she had what turned out to be a cancerous skin tag removed a couple of weeks ago. Ugh!
I saw my new endocrinologist yesterday and had some blood drawn for tests. I will go back on Feb 19th for the results and find out what the plan is so I can start feeling better.
Max finally found something he is willing to spend is own money on. They have an indoor obstacle course at his school and he has been asking me to get one for home but I keep saying he doesn't have a birthday or Christmas coming and it costs over $200! I finally told him if he wanted to use his own money for it I would order it for him. He asked me if I would help him so I told him I would pay half if he pays half. So last night we sat down to count money from his piggy banks and from one of his bigger banks we sorted over $100 in coins alone. Plus he had Super Bowl money from his Bears getting to the Super Bowl. So the obstacle course has been ordered and is on its way!
