Tiff's Turn

Aria was a good girl and slept through the night again last night. We put her to bed around 7 last night and she slept until 5:15 am! Woo-who! It was a hot Monday, with it reaching 82 degrees already at 6 am, I decided that we better get a walk in right away. Ari is usually a little fussy for most of our walks until she finally falls asleep toward the end of our exercise. Not much was on the agenda for July 8, so we got lots of play time in. We're practicing and playing with holding up her head straight and sitting up.  For a while, we played on her bedroom floor.  I introduced her to Bella the Bunny puppet, which Gus wanted to strangle of course. The biggest event of the day: we had several outfit changes  and I discovered that Aria can now comfortably fit into 3-6 month clothes. She hasn't completely outgrown 0/3, but the time to move up is near. This made me shed a few tears. Time is going so fast. I even put on...

Call me crazy, but I chose the 4th of July                                               as the night to start putting Aria in her own room. She was outgrowing the basinet in her pack n play we've been using and I was curious to see if she'd sleep better in her own room. Aria did great. I, on the other hand, did not. I stayed awake most of the night staring at her video monitor, waiting for her to move. Every time I began to fall asleep, neighbors would start more loud fireworks. Then I stayed awake worrying that it would wake Aria up. It never did. The next evening, Friday, we both slept great. Maybe it was because we had a great 2 mile walk that day. I love this walking route. There are lots of trees, which makes for great shade! Not only did I sleep like a rock, Levi got up with the baby when she woke up at 5 am on Saturday morning. I slep...

Saturday I noticed Gus was having some problems when he went to go potty. His urine was just coming out in little drops and it was taking forever  for him to go. When I called the vet, she wanted him to come in right away. They X-Rayed his bladder and did a couple tests. She couldn't find any stones or anything else wrong, so she gave me a drug used for bladder cancer and a very expensive bill then sent us on our way. A couple days later, Gus hadn't gotten better plus he was vomiting quite a bit. We went back in to see the vet for more tests. The doc still couldn't find a reason why he was having this problem. We switched to a new drug that would help his bladder muscles work better. She said we can't rule out some kind of untraceable cancer, or the fact that this could possibly be linked to his osteosarcoma (the cancer that caused him to lose a leg) but the good news is the osteosarcoma has not spread to his lungs! Yes! The downside to the new drug wa...