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Update on Bob

I talked with the vet today and the news is a little better than I had thought from her message. I my last post I said he had the type of skin cancer that spreads. I was confused. While it CAN spread it is very unlikely to and takes a while when it does. What IS likely to happen is that he will get more spots like the one we had removed that are cancerous. It will not be the same instance of cancer but because he's had one allready it's an indication there will be more. This is also unlikely to kill him - especially due to his age since it can take so long to spread if it ever does. I also mentioned there is another spot beginning to form. She said to keep an eye on it and we probably don't need to remove it unless it's really bothering him or getting so large that we think it's gotten pretty deep. If even more spots appear in the future and we choose to have them removed it will be a little less expensive to get them all done at one time. I hope to not ever need to make that decision. AND I know bob hopes to never wear this stupid cone around his neck again! I am taking it off in the morning and hopefully keeping it off!So...better news than I thought and I hope he doesn't get any more spots and he can be with us a while longer!

I finally caught her

She started smiling a couple weeks ago or so but I wasn't sure she was really doing it purposefully. It became very evidentlast week that she knows exactly what she's doing and I finally caught her...

 

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visiting dad at work

Bob

This is our dog, Bob.



I love Bob. He's a great dog. We adopted him nearly exactly 6 years ago from someone Jared worked with that did alot of traveling which was hard on Bob. He was 6 at the time I believe. I think he's 12 and a half now. Maybe 13 and a half. I couldn't ever keep it straight based on when we got him and when his birthday was. He's so well behaved and such a good dog. He's only ever destroyed one thing he wasn't supposed to and it's only been in the past several years he's had accidents inside the house - but that hasn't even been too many and it's just due to his age. The poor dog has not gotten as much attention since the boys were born. But is so patient and likes to sleep on our bed with us at night :)
Sadly, Bob has skin cancer :( We had something suspicious removed this week and that's pretty pricy! The vet called today and said it's skin cancer and it's the kind that spreads. She'll call again Monday so we can discuss different things about it but I'm pretty sure there's another spot allready forming :( We can't pay to get these constantly removed when another one might show up the next week. They did remove the one in it's entirety so that would be good - if there weren't more. Given that he has cancer she said the only thing that can be done is keep him comfortable and consider removing them as they appear. He's acting normal now but I can tell you that aside from the fact they are expensive to remove he definately does not want to live most of the rest of his life with a cone on. he really hates it and it makes him nervous.
So...we have some hard decisions to make probably next week and as I'm sure whatever happens he'll be around a while longer we'll have some more hard decisions in the near future :(
Having pets can be hard because we love them so much :(

Dates

My dad is in town this week and I have had the opportunity to take both boys out on a date by themselves (Jared hasn't even gotten that yet!) and it has been alot of fun. We have eaten lunch at Bob's and it's so funny to see their different personalities. We really haven't done this. Sometimes Jared and I would each take one of them but we haven't really done anything like this before. I was noticing that Jaden especially needed it. Both boys had fun and obviously enjoyed having one on one time with mom but for Jaden it was clearly important to him that I was focusing on him and he was obviously disappointed when it was over. For Jackson it seemed a little more about getting to do everything Jaden did the day before. I asked them both alot of questions and Jaden would kind of answer but would rather tell me things or have me do things with him (coloring and stuff). Jackson would answer questions and I would often ask him repeat questions to see if his answer was the same. Many times it wasn't but he was always quick to answer. It was really funny. Here are pictures and a video of me interviewing Jackson. I had wanted to ask Jackson (before this video) who was his best friend but didn't think he'd get it so here's what happened... Me: Who is your favorite person? Jackson: my froggie! Me: Who is your best friend? Jackson: Jaden Oh, and he clearly has no idea that Christmas exists, what it means or what you do. I'd ask him about it and he would think, then say "I don't know" The boys were very excited to see the other one come home and whoever stayed home got to play with playdough with geep!
Date with Jaden

Date with Jackson

Photo catch up

Here are our latest photos. Some random ones, some carving pumpkins, and some of Geep's visit.
This Halloween we talked about taking the boys to a church event but they don't eat that much candy, I didn't want to buy costumes, my dad was coming that night, and I didn't think they'd really know. Well, thanks to TV they DID know and wanted to do it. So we bought some candy and they seemed quite happy with their part being to hand out candy to kids at the door. Jackson would wait at the window until he saw kids and after they left would request his piece of candy :) Jaden was a little scared. The first costume that arrived was actually quite scary and he freaked out. He cautiously began to enjoy the evening a little later (which means taking him to an event full of costumes may not have been a good idea anyway.)
Oh, and pictures of our anniversarry dinner that Jared made for us at home. Complete with Kylie at the table :) The boys were spending the night at their grandparents!
enjoy the pictures!

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Eating yummy ice cream

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on a date with jaden

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Jaden wrote an a all on his own and is very proud.

October

Kylie is growing super fast and is now over 11 pounds! I've even had to move her to size 2 diapers. she's doing well and I've even begun introducing the bottle to her and she's starting to pick it up. Not well enough for me to leave her somewhere yet but we're on our way. She's slept at least 7 hours the past 3 nights so I'm hoping it's a pattern. Now to get her to sleep in her crib. We'll be working on that :)
Jared's brother got married on the 17th and all of us except for Kylie were in the wedding. A good friend of mine came to help keep an eye on Kylie which was so helpful. It was a crazy, busy, and exhausting weekend for us but it seemed to go really well. I was SO nervous about what the boys might do during the service. We had several plans to fall back on and they did well overall. They were perfect at the rehearsal (they walked down the aisle with Jared and back with both of us) but it did become clear to us that the real rings should NOT be tied to the pillows :) We were out late at the rehearsal dinner and I was concerned about the kids sleep. However, all 3 kids slept long and it was pretty calm getting ready to go the next day. The boys were great about their outfits and loved the flowers they had pinned on. Not too cooperative for pictures but at least behaving. Right before we walked down the aisle (the music had allready started in) we realized Jackson had stinky pants but we could do nothing at that point so he (and those in smelling distance!) had to deal with it during the ceremony! As they came down the aisle they did great but it was obvious they were curious and a little nervous about why there were so many people and everyone was looking at them. They calmly sat on the stairs and when Jared went to sing they were supposed to go to the front row with Jared's sister's boyfriend. They didn't want to go (they didn't make a scene though :) ) and just stayed on the stairs. During the song they took the fake rings off the pillows and tossed them to the floor, and unpinned their flowers and attempted to pin them back on each other. I was the only one witnessing this and I was accross the stage and could do nothing. It was eventually resolved and they sat on Jared's mom's lap for a couple minutes and then Jaden laid on the floor and sucked his thumb :) They did great the rest of the day and I was so relieved! :)
We went to the pumpkin patch (think those pictures were in the last post) and that was fun! I'll get pics up eventually of the pumpkin carving. My birthday was on the wedding day and though it didn't feel like my wedding day at all, it was still fun :) The boys and Jared made me a layer cake. Jared had never made one before and...it looks like the boys made it by themselves :) But it was nice - and yummy!
The boys say so many funny things lately! Some of them aren't really funny but they seem funny to us because they don't say things like that (well, they do now) Sadly for me I cannot remember any to write down right now except one. As you will see in a picture at the bottom Jackson got my boppy pillow and put his frog (his FAVORITE animal that he ALWAYS has with him and does all kinds of things only people do :) ) on the pillow and said to me "I feeding my froggy now. I need to pump. Please go get me the bag" It was so funny but very cute. They are singing now too. Jesus loves me and ABCs are the current favorite - but will randomly come out with songs sometimes and will sing along to songs they know on TV - so cute! They are also growing like weeds. We bought them jeans a month ago that were quite long and my parents brought a bunch of shirts that fit them at the time but they were really swimming in them. None of these are too small now and I'm sure they'll still be wearing them all for quite a while - but they fit perfectly now and are not at all too big.
The boys love their sister so much and like to help! Jaden especially. He'll ask where she is if she's sleeping upstairs and if she cries he'll sing her a song or rock her chair or look at her. Kylie loves to look at him and will always stop crying. he gets very excited about that.
Sorry for the randomness of these posts. I wait to long inbetween and try to gather all my thoughts in several brief, rushed sittings. The result - completely random, forgetting things, and disjointed. Even now I have no idea what I said at the top of this post. Oh well :)
Here are 2 sets of pictures. The first set is from the camera and if I remember correctly contain random pictures, wedding pictures, and birthday pictures. The second set is a bunch of random ones I just removed from my phone.