Skunks

We had some excitement early this morning.  By early I mean 4:30AM!!  I had just gone back to bed after checking on the kids and I heard Betsy, our dog, go flying out of the house.  I didn't think anything of it because she does that, you never know when there is going to be a fierce kitten out in the yard.  Anyway, about 10 minutes later I start to smell something, I think maybe Jim farted or our neighbor is "relaxing" out in his shed.  But that wasn't it, the smell was NOT going away.  So I made Jim get up and investigate.  Poor Betsy got sprayed by a skunk and was hiding in her kennel and so the whole garage and house smelled rancid.  

Betsy spent about 5 hours at the groomers today to get the smell out of her.  We threw he bed that was in her kennel in the trash and we aired out the house and lit tons of candles and used all of our airwick air fresheners.  I have been doing laundry all flipping day, I'm so tired of hearing the washer and dryer.

Alli had her 3 year well child check up last week.  She's a 3 year old .  She weighs 33 lbs and is 38 1/2 inches tall.  80% in weight and 85% in height.  She's a tall skinny girl.

A quick update.

I know, it's been a terribly long time since I've posted anything new on here.  Like I've said before, I'm not good at these things.  

Christmas has come and gone.  It was an interesting one to say the least.  We all wish and pray for a white Christmas around here and this year we finally got what we've wished for.  It was beautiful and magical for the first day or two but then when you start to feel trapped in your own home it loses something.  We were suppose to host Christmas Eve at our house this year but due to the weather we had to reschedule.  I wasn't happy.  This is the first Christmas Eve in my memory that I haven't spent with my mother and I was depressed.  But, at least we were all healthy and safe.  

Jimmy turned 1 on January 10th of this year and I turned 30 again.  Alli will be 3 on the 9th of Feb.  Jim has been really busy with work and school.  With OCS starting here in the next month things are just going to get even busier.  

We all got hit with a nasty cold over my birthday weekend.  Poor little Jimmy got the worst of it.  He ended up with a double ear infection and we found out that he's allergic to penicillin the hard way.  Since the antibiotic wasn't working he developed the double ear infection, it was only in one ear when we started the medicine.  Neat!!!  

Alli's speech has improved over the last month.  For the longest time we wanted her to talk, now we just want her to have an inside voice.  We are still working on that one.

The 2 pictures of Jimmy were of when he was sick, he wasn't crying, his eyes just watered all the time.