HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNA JOSEPHINE

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Another year has passed and Anna is now 6. In that time she has gotten taller and she lost that baby face. She can ride a bike, tie her shoes and she has begun to read. She has made us very happy and proud to have her as a child. She is so sweet and loving and smart. I am so blessed to have her. I love you Baby Gal!

Welcome Home

Praise and Thanks to God for letting us bring home OvO. A big thanks to all our friends and family for your thoughts and prayers. Also thanks to the great staff at the Vet hospital at Penn. Thanks Dr. Steinberg!

OvO is at home and resting quietly. He is very happy to be home and is sitting with me now with his head in my lap! He is on very restricted exercise so he spends most of his day in his crate. Thank goodness for the pain meds he is on since they knock him out cold! It is such a nice sight to see him sleeping!

I think I will color his skin where the hair was shaved bright colors and take him out for Halloween as a quilt!

I will keep you posted on his progress...

Name change may be needed...

The kids and I went downtown to visit OvO today. We were very prepared to see him hooked up to tubes and to be laying down pretty drugged up. Well to our surprise the doctor walked into the room with OvO on a leash! He is already up and walking! I could not believe it. The kids were so happy to see him. He looked really good considering everything her has been through. I brought him some ham for a treat and he ate it up! That made the Dr. happy. He came up to me for an ear rub and I happily rubbed away. They think he might be able to come home tomorrow and OvO is already prepping himself for the trip.. He ripped out his chest tube this afternoon! If he does come home he will have to be on very strict crate rest. No ball fetching for him!



I guess the worst part of it all is the damage to his fur! I think we may have to call him Patches for awhile.



I called my mom to let her know that she and OvO now have something in common....
They both belong to the zipper club! Maybe I'll get them matching tee shirts for Christmas
(and no she didn't think I was very funny) (I did)(hehehehehe)















I do need to print a retraction to my earlier blog. Dogs actually have 6 lungs not 4. There are 2 on the left and 4 on the right. Which is rather amazing that his problems were on the left because the right side is better a adapting and compensating. The Doctor said at the end of the surgery they could see the right lungs expand and move over to the left to start taking over. How cool is that! God is amazing and I thank you all for your prayers.

OvO update...

Hi all,

We got info about OvO. He had surgery and he did well through it. The problem is that they had to remove both sections of his left lung. (dogs have 4 lungs) (you learn something new everyday.) They only planned on removing the lower left lobe but due to a congenital defect in his lung both left lobes had to be removed. They were not happy with having to do that. Also the section they had to remove did not appear to be a bulla (a cyst like lesion). They are unsure to as what it was. They say it is not cancer which is good. They are testing it to try and figure it out. So I guess it is okay news that he survived and they say he can recover and live a normal life with one lung. I just hope and pray that he is okay. I get to go and see him tomorrow. Please keep praying for him and us. He is so missed at home! My live in babysitter is gone. I now have to worry about the kids in the yard and when I take Adam to school. I even get a little nervous at night without him her to protect and guard us.

Just as a side note since this is the second most asked question as of late.......

YES HE IS STILL ALIVE!!!!! (& down to 1 tooth)

Puppy Prayer

Dear Friends and Family,

I am asking everyone to pray for OvO. He is very sick. He is in the hospital with a Spontaneous Pneumothorax. He has air in his lungs caused by a thing called a bulla which is a cyst like thing on his lung that burst and put a hole in his lung. He will die without surgery. All you who know us and have met OvO know that he is such a great dog. Please pray for him and our family. We love him a lot and do not want to lose him!

House Rules..

Our house has many rules. Although not all are always enforced as much as we should except 1:

"One of the 4 children has to make me laugh at least once a day or they have to go."

Austin was so funny as a toddler that we went and had Anna! Now it is Anna's turn.

Here is her latest and I still crack up just thinking about it.

After church on Sundays we usually go out to eat. If we don't go out we will go home and eat. We have never failed to feed the children. They seem to not remember that little fact. So as we were leaving chuch on Sunday they all started asking if we were eating where we were going to go ect. Now being sick of hearing them all whine and complain about where we were going to go John told them that we were not eating today that we would be fasting. They of course asked what that was so John said it is when you don't eat and pray everytime you get hungry.

Without even missing a second we hear Anna....

"Dear Jesus, Please bring us some food. and please don't forget the drinks"

We laughed for miles!
Kids are truly and gift from the Lord and I am so thankful for mine!