Naked Buns

This was taken about a week ago. I got Preston ready to get in to the bathtub when daddy came racing around the house on his snowmobile. Preston LOVES daddy's snowmobile. He started jumping in my arms. So I took him to the window to see daddy. Then set him on the ledge to watch. It was too funny to me. I HAD to have a picture of those naked buns in the window!!

Prestons Surgery

So Preston had to go into surgery on January 23rd for his undescended testical..... bleh! :(
We got up early and headed up to Primary Childrens. He couldn't eat or drink anything from midnight the night before since they would have to put him under for the surgery. He was such a trooper. So we checked him in and waited in the doctors office part (where we discovered how much he loves bubbles) until they were ready to take him back. He got to wear these cute little jammies (baby scrubs) and hospital socks w/ tread (which of course I took home!). All of the hospital staff was amazing. They are so good with all the kids.
When the anastesiologist came to get him, he put him in a cute red radio flyer wagon and hauled him down the hallway to surgery. He didn't even blink an eye when we had to kiss him goodbye. What a good baby! That is when mom decided she didn't need to be strong anymore and could shed just one tear. I pulled myself together (I just knew everything would be alright) and Pete and I went to get some breakfast at the hospital cafeteria. Surgery last about 45-1hr. The Urology surgeon came into the waiting room to tell us that Preston did great and everything went as planned. About 5 LONG minutes later mom was able to go and see Preston. When I go there he was naked with only a diaper on. I held him and gave him the 4oz of sugar water they allow. He sucked it down and fell asleep on me. Poor drugged baby :) When we moved to another part of recovery they allowed dad to come in. At this point Preston had been vomiting up all of his sugar water. So we had to stay a little longer to make sure he would be fine. Which of course he was. He just slept on us (which would NEVER happen at home-he loves his bed too much) and we loved him up. He was fantastic on the way home (dad sat in the back to assist in case of anymore vomiting). We put him down in his bed. When he awoke less than 3 hours later you would have never known he had been in surgery earlier that day. He started crawling around. I put him into the bath (which the doctor said was totally fine) to help distract him for how hungry he was. We were suppose to take it easy on the liquids since he has thrown them up earlier. That poor baby was SO hungry he buried his head in the tub and started drinking the bath water. I laughed so hard and felt so bad for him at the same time. We got him out and gave hime 2oz of apple juice. He was still hungry. We gave him 4oz of milk and that didn't quite seem to cut it. We then gave him a jar of baby food. THEN he seemed satisfied. He kept it all down and went on his merry way crawling all over the house. That kid is amazing. I can't believe how quickly kids bounce back from things. His incisions have healed up nicely and he hasn't even seem to notice them. We are so thankful for such great doctors and that it is all behind us now.

So, we got a new doggie!!! A purebread boxer. This time we got one from a family that had 4 kids. Her name is Jessie. She grew up around 2 babies.....so we shouldn't have another incident! She is fantastic. We just love her to pieces. We have had her a little over a week and I have yet to hear her bark! It's great. She is so friendly. She loves to play and snuggle with us. She is really good with Preston! Mainly she just licks him to death.
She is going to be great for our family. She will run and play when we want but then she will lay on her bed and be content if I don't have time to walk her or play with her. We couldn't of asked for a better dog!

doggy bite

So Saturday we went to the animal shelter to find a dog that would work good for our family. We recently gave away our chocolate lab Rory :( to a wonderful man with 12 acres. (that's a whole other blog). We decided on a beautiful 3 yr old brindle female boxer, Zoey. Soon after adopting her we dropped Preston off at Aunt Wendy's for the night and headed to Park City to celebrate our 2 year anniversary. Yup, Zoey came with us. She was great!! Obedient and lovey. We just couldn't believe someone had willingly turned her over to the animal shelter. She is great on a leash, listened to commands....and sweet!! Sunday we picked Preston up and headed home. That night Zoey was trying to tell Preston that she was top dog by humping him and standing over the top of him. I scolded her every time. Then I was in the kitchen making dinner. Preston was sitting next to Zoey playing with her mouth. Zoey took a step forward....I knew what that meant....she was showing dominance. I scolded her again. I tried to tell Preston to be gentle with Zoey's mouth. Then out of nowhere Zoey BIT Preston. I grabbed the baby and headed to the bathroom to clean up the blood running down his face all over me, the floor and into his mouth. I was totally freaked out. Preston was screaming and Pete came running over. He gave Zoey a good smack. I gave Preston to Pete while I called my sister Jen. I needed someone calm to tell me what to do. I was in total shock. We called the police and they sent the ambulance over as a precaution to make sure he didn't need to go to the emergency room. Moments later we had the police, ambulance and a few neighbors at our house. Luckily Preston was just fine. It seemed worse than it really was. He is such a tough kid. All we had to do was to clean up the puncture on his forehead and put some antibiotic ointment on it. We gave him some Motrin and put him to bed. This picture is from the next day. See, not so bad right?? It's mommy that needed medical attention after the event :) I was pretty shook up for a while. Seeing blood run down my sons face was the scariest thing.
When the police came we had them take Zoey back to the animal shelter. Monday I released her back into their custody. I was so afraid that they would put her to sleep, but they found a animal rescue that will take her and find her a home without children.
Pete and I believe that Zoey did not mean to harm the baby. If she did he would of definitely needed an emergency room and possibly reconstructive surgery. I don't think she grew up in a family with children. I think she was annoyed of Preston pulling on her and was trying to tell him to stop. We wouldn't risk her in our home...but I believe she deserves to live and be placed in a home without kids.