Emmett woke up this morning and is already screaming.  He apparently decided to watch something in Elliott's room but Elliott wanted to watch something else. This triggered a shit ton of screaming. For some reason, I feel like this is going to be one of those days.....

Crazy Glue can't fix everything everything. I mentioned in my last post that I crazy glued Bella nail, in order to secure it and hopefully avoid a trip to the Vets. It worked great stuff first.  Unfortunately, without thinking, I let the dogs out and Bella broke the same nail even more.  She came in the house and left a trail of blood everywhere.  This time however, the boys were home to experience this. The nail was in much worse shape than it was previously and we resigned ourselves to have to remove it ourselves. It just needed snipped off, so that it could heal. I called my Dad because I wasn't sure how this was going to go and I wanted backup in case I needed it. Emmett was…

I wrote a post the other day that talked about how, at least in my family, anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. I'd like to back that claim up with the events of the past 2 days. Last night, I learned that my blog was at risk of being shut down do to the high volume of traffic. I'm currently working on resolving this issue. Thank you all for your donations to help me move to a new,  more powerful server. This morning, I was cleaning the first floor and letting Lizze sleep.  Shortly after Lizze can down, about 11:30am, we noticed a trail of blood on the floor.  Lizze and I, having watched many a crime show, are armchair forensic experts.  We tracked the source of the…

I wanted to share something that I'm really, very proud of.  Emmett, is continuing to make strides towards independence, even at 4 years of age.  Emmett has become quite determined to do things on his own. In general, this is a really good thing. Practically speaking, we can allow him to do some of what he wants to do, on his own. Some things are simply too dangerous. Even so, we try to find a balance between us helping him and him doing things independently.  In the pictures below, I was told, by Emmett, that he wanted to setup his toothbrush, all by himself.  I was happy to oblige. He did a really good job.  Seeing the look on his face when he succeeded was absolutely priceless. Seeking how clean…

Over the past few days, you may have noticed that my site is running rather slow or it's not functioning at all. That's actually past of the reason for me not posting as often lately. I just got off the phone with Tech support at bluehost. I have a rather large problem. This is both good and bad at the same time. Basically, the server is almost constantly throttling my site because I'm getting to much traffic for the shared server. They informed me that between October 16, 2012 and November 16, 2012, I have had over 1.5 million hits. What does this mean? On the plus side, I have a really popular site and a lot of people are finding something meaningful in my daily word vomit. For that,…

There is a chance that Gavin will be home all next week.  This may not come to pass but until we know otherwise, I feel like we should be prepared.  It's no hard not to worry about the impact this whole thing is having on both Elliott and Emmett. In fact, for us, it's literally impossible not to worry about the behaviors we are seeing.  For example, both boys are afraid to use the bathroom by themselves.  Emmett completely strip off all his clothes to go potty and then can't get himself dressed again. These are both things we moved beyond,as the year. The past few months, we have seen a growing trend of returning behaviors, we once thought to be overcome. It's easy to say, don't worry about it,…