Sad News

It's been awhile since I posted a blog because I have been a little (well, a lot) down. Sadly, we lost Geiger on Sunday, October 14th. The week before he had stopped eating so after a couple days of trying everything to get him to eat I took him to a special vet hospital with a reco0mmendation from our wonderful vet. After two days at the hospital he was still unable to keep food down and was continuing to do very poorly. After hearing back from the ultrasound and the tests we made the decision to put Geiger to sleep because we knew he was near his last days. If he had only had diabetes or only had pancreatitus it might have been a different decision but having the two diseases was taking a serious toll on him and he would NEVER come close to having a good quality of life. Also, the fact that he was not keeping his food down made the Doctors believe there was probably something else contributing to the throwing up (possibly a serious GI problem or low grade cancer). Below are some Kodak albums I have taken in the past couple weeks including some pictures I took of Geiger at the Southpaws Vet hospital.

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Cows, Chickens, and Ponies, Oh My!

This weekend Henry (and David and I) had a lot of fun. It was sort of a 3 day weekend for David. He did do some work throughout the weekend but he got to do it from home. On Saturday we went to the 15th Annual Falls Church Farm Day. This was held at the Cherry Hill Park where Henry and I go often (it is also where we had the Playgroup picnic the previous weekend). At the farm day Henry got to see lots of animals and go for a pony ride. At first, he was hesitant to get on the pony but as soon as the pony started walking Henry was squealing with delight. Henry also liked the big horses. When I would pet the side of the horses head the horse would twitch. This really freaked me out but Henry thought it was hysterical. Henry fell asleep on the way home and took a really long nap. After he woke up he watched the UNC football game with his Dad. UNC beat Miami (yeah!). After the game we decided to go to Toys R' Us b/c I was looking at getting Henry this refrigerator magnet set that someone in playgroup has at their house. Well, we ended up buying a small Thomas the Tank Engine set. Henry has been really into Thomas for a couple months. I take him to toy stores and Barnes and Nobles bookstores that have the train tables. He loves playing with them. A couple weeks ago an A.C. Moore flyer came in the mail and they were advertising Thomas trains for sale. I gave Henry the ad and he carried it around and looked at it constantly. As soon as David went into the Thomas aisle on Saturday I was pretty sure we were going to have to get a train set. Henry has really enjoyed it. Saturday was a pretty exciting day for him and I could barely get him to eat dinner or take a bath on Saturday night (I am speaking of Henry not David although David was pretty excited about the UNC win). Henry pretty much had a melt down by the time it was bedtime. I think it only took me about 5 minutes to get him to sleep though. He was wiped out. So, instead of resting on Sunday we headed out to an outlet mall in Leesburg. David had to return a suit jacket he had bought and I wanted to get Henry some new shoes at the Stride Rite outlet. We made the suit exchange and walked around looking at coffee makers until Henry woke up from his nap. I took Henry into the Stride Rite outlet. BIG MISTAKE! The place was a zoo. I will spend the extra money and go to the regular store where someone waits on you. After the shopping we headed to the Leesburg Animal Park. This was the place that had brought the animals to the petting zoo for Farm Day. I had picked up thier flyer the day before and saw it was just a couple miles from the Leesburg Outlet Mall. Henry got to see even more animals and loved every bit of it. He also got to go down a big (and very fast) slide twice (once with Daddy and once with mommy). It was a great weekend although very hot. We are looking forward to some cooler weather.

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BBQ with the Playgroup folks

This weekend we met up with our playgroup for a BBQ at a local park. It was really neat to get the whole group together (all the kids, moms and dads). It was a beautiful evening with temps in the low 70's (fall is in the air!). The kids and adults had a lot of fun.

Pictures from BBQ

This week Henry started nodding "no" but by Saturday he started saying "no" with the nod. A whole new toddler stage (fun fun!)