When it rains...

well, you know the rest.
First, I'll start with the pleasant news...
I didn't get a chance to post a picture of Cackie yesterday, but I did get some taken. So, here is Cackie enjoying peanuts at the baseball game...

She's become quite the peanut sheller! She even took the bag of peanuts off my lap to put it in hers - that way she didn't need to keep asking for more! We had a really fun night with lots of excitement at the ballpark. The weather was perfect and for the most part she really behaved well. They have a kiddie playground and some carnival type rides & games for the kids. Michael got her some tokens to go on the big bouncy slide and she loved it. She'd climb to the top just to stand up there and bounce. One time the bigger kids were getting quite pushy and she came down the slide all cocksywopus. Poor thing ended up in a crying heap at the bottom and Daddy had to go rescue her. No one ever believes that she's only two, so I think that has a lot to do with their pushyness. After the game she was talking about her experience, so it was definitley a learning lesson for her. We only had my little cheapy camera last night, so it was hard to get any good pictures. Here's one of her climbing up the ladder...

And here's the only good one I could get of her starting down the slide...

The Redbirds ended up losing the game 10 - 9, but they had some great fireworks afterward. This was the first time Cackie was exposed to fireworks, so we weren't quite sure what to expect. She did great, better than me in fact! After they were done she kept saying "more works Daddy". We didn't end up getting home until just after 11, but it was worth it and we all had a great time.

So, now to the rain....
Since we were out so late last night, we all took advantage and slept in. We were awoken by the phone ringing at 8am, never a good way to start a Saturday! We got up, doing our regular Saturday thing... sitting on the couch, reading the paper and watching the Little Einsteins. After a while we starting getting on with the day and Michael offered to go to Walmart to pick up the things we need. Now, for anyone who really knows Michael, they know that to him going to Walmart is like torture and going by himself is like double torture. So, I was quite shocked when he offered. But, he loves me and knows that the time at home to study was needed, so he wanted to help out.
Well, while we're getting ourselves ready, Cackie had a poopy incident and needed some help cleaning up. Michael gave her a hand while I put together a shopping list, no big deal.
A few minutes later we're still getting ready when we hear Cackie flushing the toilet. After a second we get the feeling that something has gone awry so we go into her bathroom. There we find her naked from the waist down with her soiled panties wet in the bathroom sink and the toilet absolutely full of paper. But, wait.... it's not just paper, it's a HUGE wad of toddler wipes that Michael had left out when he used them earlier to wipe her little booty. I swear she is absolutely obsessed with those wipes (this is our first clogging the potty incident, but not her first fascination with the wipes) and she just went crazy with them when she had the chance. So, Michael works at unclogging the toilet (thank goodness they are flushable!) while I get her dressed and we "talk nicely" about what went wrong.
Just as Michael & I are both finishing up we hear a racket of puppy yelping coming from the back yard. We run to the back door and Bruno starts his "Help Jackson" barking. Jackson had gotten his left hind leg caught in the unfinished edge of the deck, right where there were nails sticking out from where the deck framing was joined together. Michael rescued him from his predicament and we rushed him in the house.
We sat him on the couch and after just a few minutes it was pretty obvious that he was not right. I called the vet and they said bring him over. So, Michael heads over to the vet with Jackson while Cackie & I stayed at the house to try and clean up, etc.
Less than an hour later Michael comes home, but no Jackson. His leg is broken, right in a growth plate! Geez, we just can't win! Poor guy is only 5 1/2 months old, so he still has growing left to do!
(Just a couple of weeks ago Jackson started acting really funny, almost like he was having a seizure one Thursday night. He vomited all over the place, so Michael rushed him off to the emergency vet. After 3 hours at the ER, a couple of hundred dollars and a shot to calm his tummy they had no clue what was wrong with him. So, this poor little guy has just been pretty unlucky lately!)
Now, Jackson will stay at the vet until late this afternoon. They have to sedate him to put a splint on his leg and since he had just eaten an unknown amount of food they had to keep him a while before they could do all that. The vet wants us to take him to a specialty dog orthopedic on Monday to have it looked at since the growth plate is involved!
Then, to top things off... last week when we rented the parking spot for the RV we found out that the self storage place could give us a better price on a bigger storage unit for all the files that Michael has from the business. We signed up for that in a hurry, saving money on the unit is a great thing, especially for a bigger unit. So, today is the deadline for getting everything out of the old unit. There is one thing left in there... the hottub that Nita & Billy gave us when they sold their house & moved into the retirement village. This is the reason that the deck is unfinished. For quite a while we have been trying to decide what to do with the house, etc. We never fisnished up the deck because we always considered expanding and wanted to put the hottub back there. We have so many projects going on around here that it's real easy to get distracted and move on.
So, back to the hottub...Zack & Michael can't really move it themselves, so they've been waiting to see if they could get some help. No such luck. Plus, Zack actually got 8 hours of work today (a small blessing), so he's unavailable until this evening. Somehow we're going to figure out how to get Jackson from the vet, keep him immobilized, move the hot tub, etc.
Right now, Cackie just went down for her nap and Michael is at Walmart, so I'm about to hit the books. After that who knows!
Thank goodness, it's Cinco de Mayo... as if we needed a reason to drink margaritas tonight!