April Showers

And when it rains it POURS!
April is over tomorrow and I'm hoping for a little less chaos in May. Here's the short version: We moved April 1st, lost Tabitha (kitty) the next day. On Friday, April 13th Andy was in a car accident and totalled our vehicle. Thankfully he's just fine; he went to the ER to be sure, but came home a couple hours later. We picked up our new 2008 Dodge Avenger the following Wednesday and THEN the following Thursday I ran over our Dog, Zeke, coming home from work and then Andy had to shoot him. As Dane says "he's in the hole with kitty". This of course 1 week after he has $300 dollar surgery to remove a lump on his leg and two weeks after putting him on Buspar (an anti-anxiety pill!). Today Andy took off work to take Dane to the pediatrician because I found a lump on his inner thigh over the weekend...no biggie, it's just a swollen lymph noid, but still you have to check those things out. Whew, what a month. Tomorrow is May 1st right?

Despite the tragedies, we do have some good things going on. Dane is just a mile a minute with his vocabulary and every evening after dinner and before baths we go for a walk to the creek to "throw rocks in the water and get our feet cold". *smile* Drake is crawling, but is rapidly realizing he likes the view better from his feet so he pulls himself up on everything (even T-Bone) to practice his standing. He's already letting go and standing on his own. If we are close enough he'll turn around and take a free-handed step towards us. Yes, gates were put up on the stairs last week! And lets not forget to mention that we eat every lunch on the weekends and evening dinners on our covered deck off of the breakfast nook. Loving every minute of that. It's so peaceful out here.

I have lots of pictures to share with everyone...and as soon as I find the cord that allows me to download them to the computer I will...until then, I'm anticipating May Flowers!