From Mom, October 21, 2009

October 21, 2009

Dearest Jeremiah,

How are you? We are fine. Today or rather this morning I had to get up a littler earlier so I could take the littles to G&G. Wes had a class this morning. So I get up take the dogs down stairs let them out while I grab their food bowls. I feed them in the kennel and go upstairs to get the littles up and dressed. I get them downstairs and make up their bottles. I heard someone yip outside was fairly sure it was Sadie cause her ear was bothering her again last night. Pack up the diaper bag, strap Booboo into his car seat. I go outside to put the dogs back in the crates. ( I don’t leave them outside anymore when no one is home.) Wes had Hiedi with him. So I open the kennel gate and only Gretchen, Dutch and Emma come running out. So I go into the kennel and don’t see either Fritz or Sadie. I peek in the dog house and there they are standing side by side. I’m thinking it’s too early for them to be stuck. Sure enough they are stuck, Great. I leave them there because by that time Bear was getting tires of doggie kisses, and I take the three loose dogs upstairs and put them in their crates. Go back down to the kennel and start Fritz and Sadie walking into the house. Get to the stairs and they both don’t want to go up. So I grab both of their collars and pull them up. I bet it must have looked funny, I have one hand on the railing, the other pulling on 100 pounds of stiff legged dogs that were trying to pull in the opposite direction. I put them in my room. I left them out of a crate. I didn’t think I could talk them into going into one anyways. I figured that when they were finished that Sadie would just go into their crate and Fritz would hop on my bed or stretch out on the floor near Sadie. Wes said that when he got home one of them, I think Fritz got into the trash can. Diapers. All over my room. Yuck. I completely forgot about the diapers. It’s about 4 days too early for them to be stuck. I think. I didn’t notice any change earlier than last Friday. So I wasn’t expecting them to get stuck before next Monday. Dogs! I guess we have to be more careful when Hiedi goes into heat or Fritz will be planting puppies in her too. Dutch had better act fast. =). Shirley and I are still waiting for Jolly and Gretel to go into heat. I took Dutch up there with us last time so he could sniff at the girls and Patty was in heat so Shirley let Patty out into the yard for Dutch to sniff too. It pretty much looks like he will know what to he when his turn comes. Sadie should have puppies Christmas Day. I’m not going to try to prevent Dutch from getting stuck with her so we will see what comes out. Mike was in Kentucky yesterday and today he’s in Texas. I haven’t heard of where they are getting sent yet. I think he said that today is suppose to be a short day for him. Can only drive for 4.5 hours or something like that. Ann came over to see the boys last night and only stayed for an hour. She had her friend with her, I can’t remember her name right now. But she was there in the hospital when Ann had Bear. And some guy named Steve. Kind of a stupid looking guy, though he could have just been uncomfortable coming into a strange house to see babies he don’t know. I think Ann went out with him last week. The night I picked up the boys and she was all made up. She is leaving Saturday, but says she is coming back for Halloween. When you come home on leave you should hold Booboo when he drinks his bottle. I can’t explain the feeling, but it sure is some kind of wonderful. At night when its all quiet and I’m holding him close he just stares at me and gets all warm and relaxed. Pretty soon his eyes roll around and he falls asleep. You got to try it. Well I better get finished with my work. I love you and miss you everyday. Love mom.

PS Shirley got a black berry phone. So she’s been texting me.