Archive for the ‘Leo’ Category

• What Our Family is Good At

  Date: 2010.06.16 | Category: Aunt Lu, Aunt Rachel & Uncle Kyle, Family, Grammy, Grandma, Grandpa, Hubby, Leo, Papa, Punky, Spunky, mama | Response: 2

  … according to Punky and Spunky…

  • Daddy: fixing fences, doing the computer
  • Mommy: making food, washing the dishes
  • Leo: eating food
  • Papa: making things
  • Grammy: buying presents
  • Aunt Lu: building things like tall buildings
  • Grandpa: killing bugs
  • Grandma: making cereal
  • Aunt Rachel: making pizza
  • Uncle Kyle: cutting the grass

• WW: Sprinklers Aren’t Just for Kids

  Date: 2010.06.16 | Category: Leo, Punky, Spunky, Wordless Wednesday | Response: 3

  

• Struggling With Sickness Once Again

  Date: 2010.03.31 | Category: Bunky, Family, Health, Holy Week, Hubby, Leo, Pascha, Punky, Spunky, mama | Response: 8

  Our family has been sick on and off, mostly on, since mid-summer.  Right now, everyone in our home, including the dog, is under the weather.

  Bunky has been on antibiotics since last week, and, now, Punky is as well, after a trip to the doctor this afternoon.  They have ear infections in both ears.  Punky’s fever spiked at 102.6 last night, but I am hoping that he will rest better tonight with some antibiotics and fever-reducing medicine in him.

  I was very sick over the weekend, and my loving husband helped me take the day off and rest in bed.  Bunky spent all morning and part of the afternoon in bed with me.  He is such a sweet bunkmate.  I love that little guy.  Even though he was sick as well, he was a pleasure to cuddle and play with.  I am still coughing a lot and having trouble sleeping at night, but propping up pillows does help a bit. I think all of my coughing has pushed the germies over to my hubby’s side of the bed, and he is now struggling with a slight cold as well.

  Spunky has had a cold for about a week, but it isn’t anything more than that.  She seems to be doing fine; although, she’s been acting a little bit “punkier” in the last few days, so I hope that wears off when the cold makes its way our of our home.

  I’ve opened the windows and tomorrow I plan to clean every inch of the house in the hopes that this sickness will end this week.  We have so much to look forward to in the coming days that I was everyone to feel well so that they can participate in all the wonderful services this weekend.

  If you wouldn’t mind, please say a prayer for our entire family.

• Wordless Wednesday: A Boy & His Dog

  Date: 2010.02.24 | Category: Leo, Punky | Response: 1

  

• Attached At The Hip & A Furry Shadow

  Date: 2009.10.12 | Category: Bunky, Family, Hubby, Leo, Parenting, Punky, Spunky, mama | Response: 6

  One of the aspects of parenting that I have a love/hate relationship with is how my children always want to be with me, sit on my lap or follow me around.  Don’t get me wrong, I love having my children around and being a stay at home mom.  I wouldn’t have it any other way.  I am incredibly blessed!  But every mama needs some personal space.  Right?

  Just today, all three children were sitting on my lap… at the computer… while I was typing.

  

  The entire family can be sitting in the living room, and everyone will be with Mommy on the loveseat while Daddy stretches out on the couch.  Unless a certain video game is being played.  Then Spunky is right there with his Daddy and, a lot of the time, so is Leo.  Yes, we let our 80 pound Labradoodle sit on the couch with us.

  Speaking of Leo, when the kiddos aren’t attached to my hip, Leo is the one following me around.

  Have you seen the movie Return to Me?

  If you have, you will remember how the dog refuses to eat until the wife comes home.  That is Leo.  Punky’s morning chore is to let out and feed the dog.  He does this very well; however, that isn’t the case for Leo.  He will not begin eating until I have entered the room.

  

  Here he is: My Furry Big Shadow

  I think he’s pretty cute… oh, and those kids above aren’t too bad either.

• Wordless Wednesday: My Beige Boys

  Date: 2009.10.07 | Category: Leo, Punky, Wordless Wednesday | Response: 2

  

• Our Stick Figure Family

  Date: 2009.09.19 | Category: Bunky, Family, Hubby, Leo, Punky, Spunky, mama | Response: 1

  
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• Ice Storm of 2009

  Date: 2009.01.30 | Category: Coney, Dogs, Leo, Punky, Reese, Weather | Response: 4

  Since Tuesday evening we have been without power.  We had been bouncing to and from friends’ homes until a family from our church let us stay in the apartment above their garage.  It is an incredible blessing to us and we are grateful beyond words!

  Fortunately, our electricity came back on tonight.  Since our house is still very cold, we are waiting until the morning to “move back in.”  We will go and pick up our dogs from the kennel tomorrow some time.

  I have the fun job of emptying our very thawed out freezer/refridgerator and taking care of the fatalities in our home: all of our guppies died.  However, the snails are still hanging in there. I’m not sure how Punky is going to react to this.  It looks like it will be an opportunity to teach him about death.  Poor guy.

  Once we are back home and settled in, I’ll post some photos.  For now everything is bare bones.  I will just be so happy to be sleeping in my own bed in my house again.

  Sorry for the lack of posts and the fact that I haven’t been around reading and commenting on other blogs.  Hopefully, this will start getting back to normal in the weeks to come.  Thanks for your patience!

• Potty Mouth?

  Date: 2008.12.15 | Category: Leo, Punky, Silly Monkey Stories | Response: 1

  Punky was sitting on the toilet today, and this is what he told me:

  “Mommy, I won’t eat poop.  Its yucky.  Leo eats bones.  I eat lunch.”

  Interesting…

• Disaster: Our Trip Home

  Date: 2008.12.07 | Category: Coney, Dogs, Hubby, Leo, Punky, Reese, Spunky, mama | Response: 10

  Disaster is the only word I can think to describe our trip home.

  It takes 14 hours to drive home from my parents house, so we divided the trip up over two days.  Friday went very smoothly.  We left in the late evening and the kiddos fell asleep for basically the entire ride.  Code Monkey (this is the new nickname for my hubby- I’ll explain soon!) drove the entire way until about 12:30am.  We stayed in a very nice hotel (thanks, honey!).

  Unfortunately, Spunky decided to wake up at 12:30 and STAY awake up until 2:15am.  Then she woke up before 6:30!  Punky woke up a little bit later, and, since I wanted Code Monkey to be able to get some sleep, I took the kiddos down to breakfast.  Then a little bit later, we “explored” the hotel.  Punky loved this!  About 9:30, we all had breakfast with Daddy- breakfast #2 for the kids- and then we packed up to leave.

  Everything started out fine.  We only had 7 and a 1/2 hour drive; so we took our time.

  We stopped in an old town for a break and chance to get the kids out of the car.  Then we had to stop again to take Punky to the potty.  Then we stopped for lunch at a place with a playplace.

  Then I started feeling sick (it must have been my lunch- fast food).

  Then the road was covered in ice.

  The car right in front of us slid on the ice, did a 180 and, literally, slid right in front of our car and crashed into the wall.  Less than a mile later, the truck with a trailer right in front of us slid into the other lane and almost crashed into another car.  Fortunately, he was able to right himself and keep going.

  At the next exit, we pulled over and Code Monkey got into the driver’s seat.  I was shaking so badly I couldn’t even drive– I also didn’t feel well at that point.

  We passed about 40 accidents or cars that went off the road.  Everyone on the road was driving very slowly, and I had to stop several times to get sick- not fun!  Punky had to go to the bathroom, too.  At one rest stop, he threw a temper tantrum on the dirty floor in the middle of the store.  That was not a happy moment.

  At about 5:15, we decided to call it a day.  We tried to find a hotel.  There was a nicer hotel at the top of a VERY high hill, but I didn’t want to stay up there with the weather we were having.  So we went to the not-as-nice hotel down the road.  The room seemed decent enough, so we brought everything we needed inside.  It was freezing, and we turned on the heat, which DID NOT WORK.  Since the hotel staff never came to fix the problem, we decided to leave and ask for a refund (which they gave us).

  The weather had begun to clear up and I just had an upset stomach, so we decided to press on.  My hubby drove the rest of the way home… very slowly and I kept drinking my Pepto.  We ended up stopping two more times: once for a bathroom/food stop and once for gas.

  At about 11:30pm, we pulled into our driveway with two sleeping children in the backseat.  Punky stayed asleep and we were able to put him straight to bed, but Spunky woke up and was not happy about being put in her crib.  But just a minute or two later, the house was quiet and three very excited dogs jumped into bed with us- even Leo!

  Fourteen hours after we started our 7 and a 1/2 hour drive, we were home!