Flat Stanley Visits Grandmommy

Early in the year, Blaine had an assignment with Flat Stanley. He colored Stanley and had to send him to visit someone he knew. Blaine chose Grandmommy.

(I'm just now posting about this because I never saw it. They mailed them directly from school, and they just came home in all of his end-of-the-year papers.)

I think Flat Stanley had fun, but who doesn't have fun with Grandmommy!

Thanks for having Flat Stanley, Grandmommy, and helping Blaine with his project!

The Chaperone

Tuesday I chaperoned Kylee's band field trip to Bob-o's, which is just a small amusement parks with go-carts,

bumper boats, tea cups,

mini golf, and an arcade. Kylee actually asked me to go and wanted me to go. She even sat with me on the bus!

She's always telling me when there are really bad words in a movie and I want to turn it off that she has heard it all before. I was sure she had heard some, you know, like the words she hears her dad and I say. But the really bad words, I was sure she didn't hear often. Boy, was I wrong. I learned a lot about middle-schoolers in the 21st century! Their mouths are foul! Not all of them, mind you. But some really blew my skirt up, as Nin Nin would say.

As I was actually chaperoning and helping Mrs. Lopez, her band director, watch 140 middle schoolers, I wasn't with her the whole time. It was nice, though, that she had no problem when I was around. I had a great time with my girl and hope I'll be invited back.

Boys Weekend

I don't know much about the boys' trip to Ruidoso. Here's what I do know:

** Elijah and his parents traveled with Blaine and Joey.

** They all stayed at Pops' and Dawn's house.

** The boys LOVED the hummer.

** Elijah almost killed them on the hummer, but I have no details.

** They had a blast hanging out with each other and the other boys on the team.

** After the games one day, everybody came back to the house to celebrate Carlo's birthday.

** The boys gallivanted in the woods around the house, resulting in many, many cuts and bruises to bare legs.

** They all want to go back and stay and Pops' and Dawn's house in Ruidoso when they don't have to go to town and play baseball.

That's all I know. I'm pretty sure that's all a mom is supposed to know about a boys' weekend, too, even though some of the other moms got to go.

High Tech Mom Mom

Mom Mom has gone high tech. She got a Flip video camera, and she videoed all the times Kylee was in the recital. Then she put them all together and made one video. I'm so impressed!!

The video is a little hard to see because the lights behind the girls on stage made it nearly impossible to get a good video. Maybe they did that on purpose. Anyway, here is Mom Mom's video, with some notes below it from me to show you where Kylee is.

0:43 third from right

0:53 second from right

2:15 far right

2:24 far left

3:26 third from left

4:48 second from left

5:03 far left

5:27 second from left

5:39 solo

6:08 front and center

6:50 fourth from right

8:02 in back

8:30 fifth from right

9:41 solo

10:19 far right

11:48 far left

12:03 far right

12:11 third from right

12:42 second from right in front, technically fourth from right

14:11 far right

14:23 top right

14:21 firth from right

14:40 front lifter

14:46 third from right

16:10 third from left

Thanks, Mom Mom!!

Remington

While Kylee and I were laying around Saturday, I noticed Remington seemed a little off. I just wasn't quite sure if he was just being lazy with us or if there was something wrong. Sunday morning, I knew for sure something was wrong. He was lethargic and lifeless. He wouldn't get up and move around. He wouldn't even turn his eyes at us when we called his name.

There wasn't a whole lot I could do. It was a Sunday, on Memorial Day weekend. I text Joey in Ruidoso and told him something was up. I asked him if we could call Wiley, his friend, the vet. He said he would check on him when he got home.

When we got home from the dance recital, Remington was the same. Lethargic. Lifeless. I was scared. I kept it together for the kids, but on the inside, I was freaking out. Joey said it was too late to call Wiley. About 11 p.m., I told him we had to take him to the doggie ER. I was terrified. Blaine had had a long weekend and was tired and moody, almost lifeless himself. Joey, Kylee, and Katelyn loaded him up and took him to the ER.

He has double ear infections. They gave him ear drops and some pain meds. Monday morning, though, he was still lifeless, and I was still scared. Joey called Wiley, and Wiley said he was probably in a lot of pain, and the pain meds would put him in la la land, too. I wasn't convinced. He was that way before pain meds. Joey seemed convinced he was fine.

I didn't go or do anything Memorial Day, mostly because I was scared our puppy was dying. That night, I started texting Dawn to see what she thought. As soon as I did, Joey got him up, fed him, doctored him, and took him outside. He was walking around, wagging his tail, and had a wet nose.

I started bawling. Weird, right? I had held it together and been so good, and now he seemed to be improving, and I was a mess.

Today, he is continuing to improve. When we got home from Kylee's field trip, he actually came to greet us. He's still moving like an old man. I'm not sure if it's because his head hurts from the ear infections or if it's the medicine making him loopy, but I am so happy and relieved. I just hope that's it, that he continues to get better and it's not something else. I guess I'm still a little scared. He's not 100%, but he's 100% better than he was!