Round 2

OH MY GOODNESS, I seriously think these people are plotting against me to drive me bananas. And guess what? They are doing a dang good job. I'm completely loco! No, not completely, but that won't be far off. But first I want to tell you what I did yesterday all by myself. I scared off two coyotes! I told you I was Superwoman didn't I? The dogs were going crazy, sometimes they bark at all the ducks in the pond so I just figured that's what it was. WRONG. I look over just to the right and see the mangiest...I know I probably spelled that wrong, you don't have to call and tell me, dirtiest, scariest thing EVER ...a coytoe. It was up by where the beaver was right by our house. YIKES. I put Cody down and ran and got the camera, I snapped it's picture a couple times while it was walking away. But then it stopped and looked at the dogs and started walking back. I knew then, I had to do something. I, Angie McNeill, had to save my dogs and my house. I had to stand up for our little piece of land and attack. So I put on my bright orange sweatshirt, Justin's boots, pooper scooper and headed out. "SHOO" I yelled. Note to self, coyotes don't know shoo. It just looked at me and laughed. I yelled "get away, get out of here" again, it smiled and laughed. Finally I got Justins 410 and shot the sucker. OH MY GOSH, are you kidding? Do you really think I could do that? I had to whack a snake with a pooper scooper and thought I was going to die, like I would shoot a gun. I just kept yelling at it and it just mosied on it's way. The other one was on the other side of the creek and it spooked pretty easy. The funny thing was I had an audience. Phoebe, Bo and all the ducks were just looking at me like I was crazy. Oh, Cody was too from the inside. I guess I didn't pull off the brave warrior woman look like I thought I did.

Other than that, yesterday went really well. Logan finally started drinking and eating popsicles. He held them down and wanted something to eat but didn't know what. So finally around 5 he decided on macaronni and cheese. He probably ate about half what he usually does, but it was food and he held it down. He still looks really bad, if that bad for a mother to say? I mean it in the nicest way possible. His eyes are all sunk in and he just looks pitiful, that's a better word, pitiful. He woke me up around 2 with coughing. So I went and gave him some cough medicine and he went right back to sleep. By the way, Vicks vapo-rub on the feet, doesn't work. I had several people tell me it did, but for us...just didn't cut it. In fact, Logan thought I was crazy for doing it. He said, "Um, what are you doing?" I said, "Rubbing this on your feet." he said, "I thought it went on my chest mom." I was waiting for him to say "YOU IDIOT!" But he didn't, he loves me. So I explained that someone said it would work and since usually when I put it on his chest he cries and acts like it's acid, I thought this would be better. Whatever, he says. Whatever is right...don't waste your time people, the people that told me about it are probably the ones that said "I am Legend" was good. LIARS! :-) (Just kidding you people, I appreciate the advice)Anyway, he's still asleep as we speak *8:07am.

Cody, ooooh, Cody. He's something else I'll tell you that. Lots of names come to mind, but we'll call him "little turkey." He was a little clingy yeseterday and snotty, but still ate and played and stuff, so I had no worries about him. He slept great until about 4:10am. He started crying and coughing. Then I heard that lovely noise...yes, you know the noise...and I won't say what it was because my sister said she didn't enjoy my blog yeseterday because I said the "V" word too much...so I had to go in and clean him up. He had a fever and was not wanting any part of going back to bed. So up we got and sat on the couch until about 6:00am. He was about to fall asleep so I put him in his bed. He was quiet until about 6:30 and started SCREAMING. I capitalized that because I want you to get the full idea of the actual SCREAMING. It was like I was putting vicks vapo-rub on Logan...that kind of SCREAMING. So I go in and he is shaking and crying. We go and watch some Sesame Street, and that seems to calm him down. As of now, he's doing ok. He had some toast and water. However, soon he'll be sooo tired, it will be time for sleep, so we'll see how that goes.

I forgot to tell you what happened Sunday night. We were sound asleep, about 8:35pm the phone rings...no I'm kidding, I was just making sure you were really reading and not just skimming through, it was 11:45pm...and yes, sound asleep and Justin's phone rings. By the time I got there it was too late and we missed it. I take it to Justin to see if he recognizes the number. It's a 1-800 number...hmmm, so about 1 minute later, it rings again..."DO you know what time it is..." Justin says in a VERY hateful voice (you don't wake Justin from a sound sleep, makes him angry, trust me I know)..."Yes, sir I do, are you responsible for the building at 5171 in Tulsa, OK?" Oh crap. Yes, he says, turns out the front door alarm was going off at work. They called the police but the alarm permit was never turned into the police so they won't go. So guess who has to go? Justin. He gets dressed and heads out. All I can think about it, I'm about to be a widow. I call him about every 2 minutes so see where he is. He gets to the building and the alarm is still going off, but no sign of entry. He gets out and notices it looks like someone had recently spit on the ground. Gross. So he unlocks the door and turns the alarm off. Looks around from the front door and turns the alarm on again, just in case someone is there. No one moves. So he turns it off and looks in the office. When all of a sudden he hears this loud noise coming from around the corner. He said he jumped and was scared to death. Turns out it was the fax machine switching trays to print an order. He turned the alarm on again and headed home as fast as he could. He thinks someone probably walked by and yanked on the door so much it made the alarm sound. But he was very nervous!

Well, that concludes this edition of "Round 2." Tune in tomorrow for hopefull..."We're all well."

Love and miss you all!