Mummert Family

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Our Sadie dog finally gave burth to 5 beautiful puppies Sept. 10th. They are so cute!! It was such an amazing thing to watch. The kids enjoyed it to and were so excited the puppies finally came. I think they were beginning to think I was full of it telling them Sadie was going to have babies.
I dcided to go to th gym the day they were due. Silly me!! Everying said they would come the exact day they were due. Luckily Clancy got an early lunch that day and came home to find she was birthing them on the couch! YUCK! So, he moved her to the box and frantically called me to get home right away! He saw two more be born and we thought she was done. The vet predicted she only had 3. Surprise about 15 min later she had 2 more.
All was well until I thought she was rejecting one of her babies. Well, she was just trying to move them first to my bed and then to the couch. I wish I would have gotten a video of it, but she woudl pick them up one by one and jump onto the couch with them. Puppies screaming the whole time. It was a long couple nights for all of us. Now she is happy keeping them in the kennel after some stearness from me. I was not about to let her raise these babies on the couch!!
Now if I could just keep the kids from getting in the cage all the time we would be doing really good. Bailey is such a little mama. I found the puppies wrapped in a blanket, in her baby high chair and in her arms getting patted, rocked and lots of tlc. Sadie will actually let Bailey watch over her babies for her!!When Cam gets near it is a totally different story!

Watching all the action
You can still see the cord on the black/wet one
Did not take them long to figure out how to nurse

Bribes

Ok, so I don't beleive in bribing my children to get them to do things. Altough, I catch myself doing it a lot. I have decided that I would bribe Bailey into staying in her bed all night insted of crawling in with Clancy and I. I told her I would take her to get her toes painted. So far, it has been two nights and she has stayed in there all night!!
Hmm.. Now if I could just bribe Cam into not wetting the bed I might just might get a full night of sleep. I have to get him up once a night to take him potty or he will wet the bed. I thought we were over this hurdle but I guess God is not done testing me!!

Monday, September 15, 2008

Clancy decided to take the family hunting/camping with him...Well, it was more like I watch the kids at the camp site while he goes hunting. It was really fun. All of us were sooo dirty we could hardly stand it! No such luck for finding live animals, but Clancy did find a scull. cam thought that was pretty neat.

Cam with his prize!

Where is the nearest bath tub?
shooting 101
watch out!
sadie was so tired. It's hard work hiking woth 5 babies in the tummy!

again-amazed at the beauty we are surrounded by

wOw! What a sight!

Mighty hunter! He makes daddy proud

How do I work this thing again?

Lov'n my new 'do'

A very FUN FILLED day

We started out the day at Sayaka's with yummy pizza and sno-cones. Then we headed to Thanksging Point Gardens. we had planned on just checking out Discovery park but then got lucky and got to go to the BIG gardens for free. It was such a treat, but I think we were all a little tired and ready to go home at the end of the day.

Angela hard at work making sno-cones
Haruhi enjoying her sno-cone.
It is so neat to watch her. She was so shy and timid when we first met. She had only been in the US for about a month. what a shock for a 4 year old. Now, it is so neat to see her face light up when we get together. She loves playing with Cam and Bailey. Even though they cannot really communicate with words yet!
Cam and Bailey are feeling so spoiled!
Bailey at Discovery Gardens