Teaching the Dog to Color
First, let me start out by saying that IT IS STILL SNOWING!!!!! It won't stop. I think we live in a giant snow globe. I'm tired of double/triple the commute time. QUIT SHAKING THE GLOBE!
Riley LOVES to color! So far she's been really good about only coloring in her coloring book at the table Grandma Shanni gave her for Christmas.
But the past two days she's gotten in trouble for coloring on the walls. Prior to now she was okay to have unsupervised coloring. Not anymore. Back to supervised coloring again.
Roxi also loves to color with Riley. Roxi loves to do anything Riley does. She loves, loves, loves her and follows her around all day.
Riley has learned to put crayons in Roxi's mouth. Attempting to get her to actually color. It's pretty cute how well they play together. Pictured below, Riley, but mostly Roxi, coloring.
Our Conception Story
After eight years together we were pretty sure we'd spend our life with our four legged kids, doing lots of camping, and traveling the world. On August 12, 2004 that all changed with the birth of our God Daughter Tate. We immediately fell completely in love with her and soon began to re-think our decision of not having kids.
In October 2005 we began the process of trying to conceive. As soon as we started trying Shelly began having very erratic cycles which made the process that more complicated. After four tries over six months we decided to schedule a consultation with the a Reproductive Specialist. We were desperate to conceive and on a limited time frame since Shelly had just turned 41. Dee was 35 at the time but not able to conceive due to a medical procedure.
Our first appointment with the Repro Man was May 2006. He suggested we try IVF using Dee's eggs and Shelly as the gestational mother. He felt this scenario would give us the highest chance for success of a healthy pregnancy. We spent a short amount of time weighing our options and decided this was the best choice. We began our first IVF cycle in August. They did the Egg Retrieval and Fertilization on 8/31. Three days later, 9/3, they transferred three embryos into Shelly. Then the wait began.
Shelly promised not to begin the home pregnancy test too soon. Dee had to travel out of state for business a week after the transfer and asked Shelly to please wait to test. BUT, the wait was too much for her and she started testing after a week. At first there was no line. But after a couple of days testing a faint line started to appear. When Dee came home from her trip Shelly told her, "I know I'm pregnant." Dee didn't believe her and insisted the line wasn't dark enough so she tested herself to compare. There was absolutely no line. She began to believe Shelly was pregnant but still had doubt. Dee went to the store and bought another brand of testing strips. After five home tests, we were convinced we we're pregnant due to all positive results. A blood test at two weeks confirmed it; we were going to have a baby!
10 comments:
Boxers rock. :)
Hopefully it was only a one time thing on the walls (she says laughing out loud *wink-wink*)
OMG...that's the cutest thing ever!!!
That is just way too cute.
That is soooooo cute!
So glad you are blogging again!
OMG! The dog is freeking hilarious :)
I love it. I mostly love that your almost 18 month old lulled you into a false sense of security about coloring unsupervised. LOL. Can I bring my dogs over for coloring lessons?
That is hilarious! I will call it, "A girl and her dog!"
omg that is the cutest thing ever seeing a dog colouring. lol.
our riley loves colouring too--more than any other activity i think.
They will best of friends......
How cute!!!!
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