Bye Bye Phannie

After his consumption of a box of tampons and the subsequent consumption of a bowl of halloween toys that resulted in a $4,000 surgery, it was clear to me that Phantom, as much as I love him, was not a good fit for our family.  So after he was career changed, I made the tough decision to find him a good home.

What a sweet puppy, how am I going to give him away?

"I am so snuggly warm up here!!!  And now that I've been career changed, I can sleep on the cough right?"

"please don't give me away.... look how cute I look all drugged up after my surgery!"

Taking Pahtom to the vet to get his sutures out...   He kept getting up on the bench and trying to look so cute.

He thinks he can just do what ever he wants now that he is not a guide dog puppy. 

"What's back there?  I think I smell chicken... Since I'm not a guide dog any more can I eat it?"

"What!?!  You are giving me away???"

Kit comes over to snuggle with Phantom one last time before he goes to his new home

The morning that Phantom goes to his new home.  

What an awesome Christmas present!!!

"I still can't believe you are giving me away!!!!"  

Phantom's new boys!  They are both so ecstatic about having a dog!

Headed out for their first walk together. 

Two happy boys after their first day together!  May they have many wonderful years of joy together. 

Oh Phantom!  You are going to be so loved!

He is has for sure found his forever home and he is so incredibly loved!

New floors!!!!

Our carpets had finally reached a point of grossness that I could not take them any more.   After much discussing I finally convinced my wonderful husband to let us put in wood.  This past week we got our new floors put in.    I am super happy with the final result but man, when they said there would be a lot of dust, they weren't kidding!

The fun begins

Yeah!  One room down, one to go. 

Puppy pee soaked carpet be gone!!

Wow our room looks os big with nothing in it!

Guide Dog Holiday Party

Every year I host our local GDB club's holiday party. We have a lot of fun dressing up the puppies and eating yummy food.  I didn't take a ton of pictures but here are a few.

Our youngest member of the club... Nitzana.

Irene, career change

Look at the tongue

Silly Girl!

Not a happy looking puppy!

Hate the FLU!

Our entire family got the Flu and I didn't want to impose on my parents again so I took a very sick Matthew with me to work.  luckily I had just meetings all morning and was off in the afternoon so it worked out well.

Matthew and Phantom both being very good boys during my meeting.

Oh sweet sleepy boys!

Meeting number two.  They are both still being so quiet and well behaved.

I felt really lucky that I had such a good boy and puppy.

The next day poor sweet sick matthew complained of a terrible  headache.  I really hope he hasn't inherited my migraines.  The poor kid had a high fever for over 6 days.

Breaks my heart watching him put an ice pack on his head.

My poor boy!

Oh phantom!!!!

Phantom has recently been career changed due to being a garbage mouth.  I left him at home for just over an hour and when I came home he had destroyed a box of tampons and eat a few of them.  UGH!!  we thought they all cam out but two weeks later he started vomiting several times a day.  Long story short... He had tampons stuck in his stomach.  The vet had to induce vomiting and get them out. 

 

A very sleepy and sedated Phantom after getting the tampons out.

Two days after Phantom was career changed he became very ill and would not walk.  He was dragging his back legs.  It was so scary.  it was 10 pm the night before thanksgiving. So I rushed him to the CSU vet school emergency room.   They grabbed him out of my arms and rushed him to the back.  Several hours later he was not doing well and was rushed to surgery. There they found that his stomach was blocked and was full of plastic "bugs"  SERIOUSLY PHANTOM!!!! WTF!!!  We had these for Halloween and the kids had apparently spilled some in the back yard.  After he was career changed I let him run in the back yard.  What a bad decision on my part!  He spent three days in the ICU and eventually came home a cut up and drugged but healthy puppy.  Poor little guy.

On the Left, the Halloween toys he ate.  Right top, a very drugged phantom.  Right bottom - poor Phantom's tummy.

A very sleepy puppy on tramadol and recovering from the whole ordeal.

"are you talking about me again?  I am not getting up... it hurts too much so I will just glare at you."

Phantom on tramadol.  He was so dopy!

I really did feel bad for the poor guy, but still.... stop eating crap!

Sleepy boy.

Duffy drugged phantom

"yes I know I'm not suppose to be on the couch but you lifted me up here since I can't jump and I'm career changed so, I don't see what the problem is...."

Up close and personal

Now that he is career changed he can "legally" snuggle with me on the bed.

Phantom!  Why do you have yogurt all over your face?  No really, why?

Life is crazy!

We have been so busy lately so below are some photos of the happenings. 

Matthew is ecstatic about the construction utensils and plates that he got!

Poor sick ethan, Trying his best to make it through dinner.

My poor sick ethan. 

Ethan had a lot of fun climbing in and out of the boxes.

The Boys are staring to enjoy wrestling and rolling around with each other. They sure are Boys that's for sure.



Grandma and Ethan at Thanks Giving Dinner at Sunrise Ranch.

What a handsome young man at 17 months.

Ethan thought the ride on horse (or is it a cow?) was so much fun!

"yumm!! Rice!"

Ethan thought it was so funny to put this in his nose!  He was right... it was funny!

"Um, Mom.... I seem to be stuck in this toy bin...."

They opened a Dunkin Doughnuts in Fort Collins!  So of course we had to go there on Sunday morning for doughnuts!

Alex was home for a few days and took Matthew skiing at Loveland for the Day. They had a blast!

"look what I did while you were putting ethan to bed?  Aren't you as proud as I am?"

Silly Ethan!



Ethan was having a fit the other night at bath time.  He wantd to take his blanket and his binki into the bath with him.  I didn't have the energy to fight it so, into the bath he went with his blanket and his binki.