Koomps

Koompa seems to be doing OK despite her mini seizures. For example, Frankie was eating noodles on the couch and Koompa tried to jump up onto the couch to grab them. Or, when I took her outside to pee yesterday she saw a squirrel and pounced forward to get it until she ended up face first in the snow. I know, snow. Snow. Its April 7th and we have snow. At least the forsythia are still in bloom. Anyhow at the veterinarians today, they said that koompa had some fluid in her lungs and her heart murmer sounded a bit worse, both indicative of congestive heart failure. I guess the Koompster is nearly 16 (over 100 in human years) so that was not totally surprising. There are two kinds of chf -- one caused by leaky valves and the other caused by enlarged heart. Koompa has the leaky valve kind, which is supposed to be the lesser of the two evils. I was relieved to know it wasnt some sort of cancer that had gone to her brain. I caved in and got an x-ray which showed no tumors but some fluid on the lungs. So, the vet gave us some meds to take the fluid down and to reduce the effort the heart has to give and said that if all things go well, Koomps could have another year in her. But then again he also said these things are unpredictable and she could have 2 weeks. Really all depends in the medicine works or not. I guess that is my report for the day. Im hoping the meds kick in. In other news? Poor Sparty.

Stuff

Trying to catch up here. I just checked the weather and it says we are under a winter storm watch. What??!! Our poor crocuses and daffodils. We're supposed to get 7" of snow. I wish I could say April fools! But at least as I lying in bed at 6:45 am I noticed a glimmer of sun, so the sunrise is really gaining some time! The sun doesnt officially rise till 7:12 but you could see a crack of light and we are still gaining 3 minutes of sunlight a day!

Poor Koompa has been having a rough go of it lately. The gal turns 16 in June, but she has been having these little mini seizures everyday it seems. Scott's going to CA this week - not fair as I know he loves snow! - so Im kind of worried for Koomps while he is gone. Well, lets see if the weather snows him in.

Frankie loves to live on the wild side. She wanted to get a book from the top shelf of the book case. So she dragged the kitchen chair over to the book shelf (still couldnt reach it) and so she picked up her chair and put that on the big chair and climbed on top of that and reached her book. Good thing I didnt see her doing that until scott called my attention to the fact that Frankie was sitting on her chair on the chair reading her book.

And, now, Go Green!

Bee just told me that she wants to make a three dimensional shape museum. What a fun idea!

Ducks

We fed the Ducks on campus yesterday after school. It was a bit cold, but still sunny! Frankie actually chased the ducks, while Bee tried to get the ducks to eat from her hands. I took pictures! Frankie saved half of her roll to eat herself as we walked back to my building.

Happy Birthday Bee!!

Happy Birthday Bee!! We can't believe you are 6 years old - that is one third of the way to 18. Yikes! We love you!!!

Spring!

The sun may not wake up till 8am... but spring is (almost) here!! Our first crocus bloomed yesterday!!

dark mornings again

the sun rises at 8.02am tomorrow -- that is just about as late as it was Jan 1, in the dead of winter. Kids should not have to walk to school in the dark, which is what this month earlier time change amounts to here in mid michigan. Besides this puts us out of sync with the rest of our global society (for whom DST ends April 5 and March 29 this year ).

OK, Im done with my rant.