Reggie's Birthday

Oh my!  Has it really been almost 5 weeks since I wrote on the blog last.  And here I had wild delusions of posting every other day!  Not enough happens!  But, nevertheless, let me apologize for staying away so long.  I’ve been busy having visitors, getting older, and entering into long, drawn out discussions about my job prospects with my husband…discussions which I do not intend to reiterate here but, suffice it to say, going back to school to get a degree in a career field is becoming an ever more appealing option.  I digress. 

Second, let me say many gracious thanks to all those who called, sent cards, and sent gifts for my and Reggie’s birthday.  We both had truly excellent birthdays and I will tell you about Reggie’s today and my own in the next post.  They were both quite enjoyable.

Third, let me catch up on some happenings since the last time I wrote.  You may recall that in my last post I mentioned battle wounds.  Oh yes.  Here’s the story:

One of the reasons Steve and I wanted to move south was for better weather.  (Whether or not we actually have better weather is yet to be determined as we do get an awful lot of rain but it can definitely be said that we have warmer weather.)  And, one of the biggest perks of better weather is that we can take Reggie out for runs longer into the year.  This is a perk because, when Reggie does not run, he does this:

 But when he does run, he does this:

So, out on one of these runs in the warmer weather, I tripped on some uneven cement and, though I put my hands out in front of me, my fall was not exactly cushioned.  I not only scraped both knees and my shoulder (in an attempt to tuck and roll) so that both were bloodied through no less than three layers of fabric, but I banged my forehead onto the cement and was left with a decent sized bump and bruise.  I’d like to enter into evidence items A, B, and C:

All in all, it wasn’t really that bad.  The bump was about the size of a nickel and about as tall as a mini marshmallow and, though my knees hurt for a good week whenever something touched them, they got better and only left discolored marks where the scabs where.  The bruise, however, lasted a good week and a half after the accident and made Steve paranoid that anytime we went out in public, people around us were whispering about abuse.  But, it’s no matter.  All of the evidence is now gone and/or has paled and no one is the wiser.

We also had a little incident, though I have no pictures of this one, with our boy.  One rainy Monday, Steve and I decided to stay in and do a youtube Tai Bo workout instead of a run.  Reggie got very excited during out workout and ended up jumping over the back of the futon.  Imagine a standing leap from the floor over the back of the futon and, most unfortunately, then a slide off into the coffee table.  He hit is eye (or thereabouts) and two days later it was swollen and red and leaking some sort of greenish-yellow pus.  We took him to the vet who dyed his eye green, took a picture of it, and sent me home with antibiotics as he had a scratch on his cornea.  But, the nice part was that they gave us a free follow up visit a few days later to make sure he was healing well.

Finally, we celebrated Reggie’s birthday.  What was supposed to be a cold and stormy Saturday turned out to be mildly rainy and rather warm.  So, we began our day with a run in the neighborhood and, since it was so nice out, we followed it with a walk to look at all the budding trees and flowers.  Next, we went to the pet store to pick out a toy which we subsequently took home and wrapped.  Then, we had a birthday treat...a large milkbone covered entirely in peanut butter.  We tried to stick a candle in there but it wouldn’t stay upright so we were unable to light one but we did sing, “Happy Birthday”.  Sadly, we didn’t really have anyone to celebrate with…if I had been at home, I’d have undoubtedly thrown a huge party but maybe on our next visit we can have an honorary ice cream cake.  Anyway, here are a few pictures from our boy’s birthday:

 

And, last but not least, with our new, nicer weathered home, we have been trying to spend a decent amount of time at the beach.  Here’s a few pictures of us all at the beach a while back.  Reggie was digging up dead crabs.  I have a movie of that adventure on my phone but I have yet to learn how to upload from my phone to the internet.  Hopefully I’ll have it up soon…ish.

 

Again, sorry it’s been so long.  The next post shouldn’t take so long.

Cheers,

Amanda