Baby

Audrey was born June 18, 2008 at 4:02pm, she weighed 8 lbs 1 oz and was 20 3/4" long.














I think she looks just like her dad..this is a picture of him when he was a baby.














Labor was not fun as to be expected but its all over now and we have a healthy little baby girl. we got home from the hospital friday afternoon and things havent been too bad. Ryan had researched how to introduce the baby to the pups and so far so good. the only pup interested in linus - Hopefully it wont be long until she is not obsessed with her.

Settling in now to long nights...

Here are some pics

big baby

well there has been 24 hrs of no new groundhog stories...thank god. I took linus to the vet and it cost $100 to have her looked at, shaved and the wound cleaned, and some anitbotics. All in all 15 minutes of the vets time. they picked the right business. this morning she wasnt acting normal, she didnt even want a biscuit when i offered her one- i'm hoping by tonight when i get home she will be back to normal.

i had an ultrasound this morning and the baby is estimated at 8lb 13 ounces. i'm hoping that they are way off. especially since i have atleast a week to go. i'm putting money on june 27th to deliver. Ryans guess is June 22nd.

dogs vs groundhog round 2

well if sundays attack/killing wasnt enough excitement for the dumb groundhogs then yesterdays better have been.

i got home from work and let the dogs out- i checked the right side of the yard (where the previous attack happened) before letting them out and it was clear. i watched the poms run about looking for the goundhogs and then saw them both sprint over to murphy on the left side of the lawn. The big fat mother groundhog was in the fence! and murphy was surrounding it- then all 3 of them were. I was TERRIFIED that one of my dogs was going to get very hurt. i was screaming at the top of my lungs at them. i didnt know what else i could do. well screaming did nothing- the dogs all ignored me. i panicked (surprise, surprise) i was running into the house and back out screaming for them to stop and let the thing go- the groundhog was screeching and the whole gang of them were moving toward the house. i was honestly thinking it might try to run into the house to escape the pack of dogs. i threw our lawn chair out toward them to try to break it up. nothing. meanwhile i think i was screaming the whole time. the pack was moving a little to right of the yard - where the ground can escape - if it makes it alive. well in my last ditch effort i throw our other chair at them and it separates murphy and linnie from patty and the groundhog. enough space that the groundhog gets a few feet away and darts toward the fence. patty runs along barking at it like an idiot. the groundhog escapes- not sure with what damage.
then i ran inside and lost it. hysterically call ryan who probably thought something had happened to the baby or something.
well linus has some battle wounds- a cut on her muzzle and fang marks on her side. i bet she was the only one who actually bit the groundhog though. we called the vet after some research on the internet knowing full well they would just want us to come in so they can take $. i think linus will be fine. we cleaned the wounds with peroxide and bag balm and she didnt even wince. but i am taking her today to get a rabies booster shot and have her wounds checked out. this wont be cheap.

and i bet the baby crawled into my ribs and will never want to come out now into our crazy madhouse.

karma gets even dogs...

heat makes dogs kill

there are always stories about people going crazy and killing during hot hot days- like it makes people crazy or something- i think (hope) the same is true for pomeranians. Yesterday we had a crime committed in our backyard. This weekend it was 95+ on saturday and close to 100 on sunday. Saturday while I was in the kitchen I noticed the big fat mother groundhog in our fence. i opened the window and yelled at it to get out. it did listen to me and left the fenced in yard. Well sunday afternoon about 1pm Murhpy and Linus were sitting by the back door (shade was pulled) so i let them out thinking they hadnt been out in a while. for some odd reason i watched them as they ran out the door to the corner of the yard right where the groundhog had left our yard the day before. As I was saying to ryan isnt it weird they run right over there i see a little baby groundhog running for its life to the fence and jumps through it. then i see linnie dart to the right and out of my sight. i see 2 more baby groundhogs running from the yard to the fence. both of them make it out. then i look over to see linnie and there is something brown in her mouth! i started screaming at ryan- oh she got one! she got one! ryan ran outside and had to pry her away from the poor dead groundhog. he disciplined her pretty good- hopefully it helps. i doubt it though. luckily the big mom wasnt in the yard too or linnie would have had her hands full. i bet murphy would have gotten involved if that happened. Murphy was just watching her in disbelief i think.

what is wrong with my dog?!!?

Classes

With the upcoming birth of our baby Ryan and I have been preparing by taking some classes that the hospital offers. It was when my niece was born that I realized soon I was going to have a newborn to take care of only I knew absolutely NOTHING about babies. so i looked into the classes that were offered and signed up for all of them that applied to us.

so far we have completed the CPR and first aid for infants- that class was good except that i think they really try to scare you and basically call 911 if anything happens was the message we got. We did learn how to do CPR though. Hopefully nothing we learned in that class we ever have to use.

we then took a 4 week childbirth class. There were 8 other couples in that. we toured the birthing center at the hospital, learned all about whats going to happen, they showed lots of videos on birthing that i chose not to watch, learned about breathing for pain control, pain meds, c-sections, shaking baby syndrome- NOTE to all - shaking a baby violently can do serious damage to their brain and could kill them. Soooo basically I learned WAY too much and now i am terrified. that class made it all too real. Ryan has taken on the 'coach' role and he is very serious about it - its kinda cute.

Last night i went to a breastfeeding class- which I thought was actually very informative and didnt totally gross me out.

We have one last class on newborn care to take next weekend and then she can come- we will be educated :)

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