Somebody turned off the heat……outside. I mean, 25 degrees wasn’t pleasant, but 11? Not right. And it’s only going to get colder.
Knock on wood
I’m really surprised it hasn’t snowed yet. Usually we have had at least one snow day by now. Pretty white snow sparkling like cubic zirconia rings in the snow. I’m not complaining mind you, thanking the God of snow, yes, but not complaining. Usually, Alyce’s birthday party is snowed out, and that was last week.
I think it’s time to start switching to night showers for the kids. I didn’t make them take one this morning. I was worried that Kat’s hair would freeze while waiting for the bus. (Amazingly, they made the bus this morning – first time in 2 weeks.)
All I know is I thought I was going to freeze this morning taking Junie out. She thought she was going to freeze too. She’s buried under a blanket on the bean bag now in her little sweater.
That’s the picture for her blog post today as soon as I get it up. Poor thing. You guys haven’t seen her since Pato groomed her up a little bit the other day. She couldn’t hardly see before. Here’s a pic of her face the other day before grooming.
How about that for a changed dog?
You thought she was naked before. 
He trimmed her up as best as he could with the clippers we had and scissors. She’s kind of got a modified version of a Chinese Crested’s traditional cut. We just don’t have small enough clippers to get her face done really close. I think she is adorable the way he did it. So it works. Here’s “her” telling the story of getting groomed the other day.
Either way, we were both freezing this morning. I plan on staying inside and hibernating the rest of the day. We’ll dream of going south, somewhere warm, like the Bahamas, where you can swim in the ocean on Christmas day. (Best vacation ever, BTW.)
Other than that, it’s been pretty quiet around here.
Christiano has picked up the word stupid from Katiana who is constantly in trouble for calling somebody stupid.
Christiano says, stupid doggy. Stupid mama. Stupid daddy. Stupid stupid stupid.
When he starts I say, Christiano???????!!!!!!! He says, what? Who is stupid?
Nobody.
Nobody stupid mama.
Good boy.
That puts an end to it for a couple of hours.
Katiana….that child. When she calls someone stupid and I catch her, this is her response.
It was an accident!
Whatever.
Then she gets either time out…which she hates or her computer or something else taken away. It’s usually whatever she is playing with at that moment in time that has the biggest impact.
Oh, and Nano started biting last night.
He pushed the step stool into the hallway and was turning the light off and on. A – we couldn’t see. B – he was right by Woodstock’s cage. You don’t put your fingers in his cage. He is slightly cage territorial. Kat knew this and went over and got Nano down. (I was making supper.) What did he do? Bit her in the arm right as she was putting her arms around him. She dropped him (not to far, it’s just a 2 step – step stool). They were both crying. Katiana had a nice mouth indentation on her arm. Christiano was mad that he had to get down and even more mad when he got in trouble for biting.
By the time Pato got home I was all, he is your child. Take him. Get him away from me. I had put him to sleep 3 times. He had just woken up again, throwing himself all over the bed. Head butting me in the mouth. Done done done I tell. Terrible two’s. I cannot wait until these are over. Pato pointed out that he was starting to get a runny nose and cough when he was holding him. Can’t wait until that’s over either. Back to welcome to winter in Iowa. The time of year when I am at the doctor’s office with one of 4 kids at least once time a week.
Blah.
Have a great day!
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