Puppy Update 3 months, 1 week

Okay, these ears crack me up! One night we went to bed and they were floppy, and now, they are all pinned up to her head. Its hysterical, and she doesn't seem to have much control over where they go. Its impossible to take her seriously.
So you might be wondering how Brian's asthma is doing. Well, being the holiday season we are going to have to wait until after this week to get him in to the specialist. However, being that I am our resident witch doctor I have started toying with some ways of managing his asthma. Of course we have been doing all the bathing and cleaning each day (frankly, im pooped). We refilled an asthma controller medicine he was on before and gave him a couple of pulmicort treatments right when he got home, and so far so good. I have my fingers crossed. I mean seriously, who could resist that face!?
The puppy is doing well, she and Mac get along well... he is a very patient dog. Last night I went into the kitchen and saw Mac and Leia "spooning" I told Brian how cute it was. Brian said, "Hmm, I think Leia is spooning, but Mac just hasn't run yet". He does have that longsuffering look of a very patient dog.
On the other hand, Leia seems to just love Mac. She is doing a very very good job of walking on a leash, and recently with the big growth spurt (btw, she is a MONSTER, isn't she?) I think her bladder had a growth spurt too. Potty training suddenly got much easier.
She is VERY affectionate.

Extreme Makeover: The Blog Edition

I have to thank my friend Rob for the blog makeover, and Heather (his wife) for loaning him out. I'm sure, it only took like freaking hours and glass after glass of rum for him to walk me long distance through applying this super cool blog design he put together for me! Okay you ROCK, I LOVE it!!!

Boris and Karlov

Meet Boris and Karlov. They are John's new fleecy hand monsters that also manage to keep him warm. I finished them in time for Christmas, thank goodness.

Boris and Karlov are really quite shy. While they used to be monsters, they are trying very hard to reform themselves and resist the urge to eat people. Although they have slipped up a time or thirteen, they are "working the program" and mumbling the serenity prayer as often as possible. They enjoy long walks on the beach, and hot cocoa in front of the fireplace. Twin brothers, both prefer french fries and ketchup to chocolate ice cream. Home Alone is their favorite Christmas movie.

Birthday cards and general craftiness

Sooooo, this is the card Brian got me for my birthday. He didn't get a chance to give it to me until today. This man just GETS me. So anyone who knows me, probably knows that I have general issues with alot of religion. Now, I don't have problems on the God front, so please don't sick the hell hounds, or heaven hounds on me. But I'm not a country club kind of girl and so many of the churches have that "feel" to them. However, I would join the Church of Briantology ANY DAY!!



Oh and I have been up to some serious craftiness. Since my kiddos are so into superheroes, I figured I would make these little pegdoll versions. I think they would travel well. You can buy the unpainted pegs at any hobby store and then just paint them yourself based on superheroes, princesses, geisha girls, whatever.......





Spiderman, Jon the maritan hunter, The Green Arrow, and The Green Lantern

Captain Atom, Fire, Batman, and Wonder woman

The Flash, Black Canary, Superman, and Supergirl (however supergirl looks like she has been crying without waterproof mascara, so I am going to have to redo her....)

We need a little help from our friends

We have discovered that Brian is allergic to our new dog. Unfortunately, his allergy manifests as really severe asthma. The doctor gave us all kinds of warnings today about it. So, does anyone know of any solutions?.....because we are obviously in love with this dog.

Here is what we have been doing:

• Brian has been on antihistamines, Zyrtec
• I have been bathing Leia each week anyway
• We keep her out of the bedroom area

Here is what we plan to add already:

• Vacuuming and moping each day
• more dusting and washing of linens
• wiping the puppy down with a semi wet washcloth daily and brushing twice a day
  
• using a spray that is supposed to cut down on dander

Does anyone know of anything else we can add to help this out? If you are unable to comment here because you don't have gmail or a blog, please reply to coplings@gmail.com

Happy Birthday to me

So today was my birthday, and as luck would have it Brian was out of town. The kids and my parents took me to see The Tale of Desperaux and gave me some kid free time to shop. It was so awesome!

Brian had taken me out on Monday to see "Twilight" for my birthday. I have to love that man for going with me. He was the ONLY man in the whole theater. You know how when you go to kid's movies, you have to expect crying babies? In this movie we had this 14 year old girl sitting a little behind us whispering all the lines to the movie just about 2 seconds before the actors. She was so adorable, Brian did alot of eye rolling. Every once in a while during the particularly sappy parts he would start sucking alot of his soda, he claimed that he had to wash the vomit back down. That man cracks me up, but I know he REALLY loves me to take me there.

I was thinking......well, procrastinating really

So its 10:30am, and really I should have sewn three pieces by now, but I am procrastinating.... sigh. I hate deadlines. Then I thought, hmmm, would it be wrong to teach the kids to sew so they can help? Maybe then we could have like four more children, and they can all sew. That would be seven sewing children, 6 geese a laying, FIVE GOLDEN NEEDLES..... Then it really WOULD be my little sweatshop! We could open an Etsy store and make Bajillions!!!!!! .....And somewhere in America, my husband just fainted with his hands over the crotch of his pants.... I swear he can psychically sense when I want to reopen the baby factory. If the new children were anything like the ones we have, they would eat away, literally, at the profits. Sigh, I guess I should just get to work..... darn it.