Roly Poly: What a week it has been!

Gosh, this past week has been strenuous to say the very least. It started off on Sunday the 20th with Daisy, my miniature dachshund, becoming paralyzed in her back legs. So after an emergency trip to the vet, she had to have surgery to remove the ruptured disk from her back. So since then it has been an uphill battle. We took her home that Wednesday only to bring her back 4 times for various reasons, but thankfully now she is doing much much better! She is still not walking but she can stand on her own for a few seconds at a time so that is a huge improvement! Each day we have to take her out to do her exercises to make sure her leg muscles stay strong for when she actually can walk. The doctors say it could be a month or so before she's up and walking, so we've got a long road ahead but she's worth it!

Here's daisy the day we brought her home from surgery.

On a much happier note, Jolie turned 5 months old yesterday! I can hardly believe it. The time has literally flown by. We're back on a more "normal" schedule now too. For a while there she wasn't waking up til late in the morning and going to bed late at night but we seem to have worked through it all and she's doing a lot better with sleeping through the night. She's also teething (or so we think)! Everything goes in her mouth now, fingers, toes, my glasses, hair. Anything she can find she instantly puts them to her mouth. Lately though she's started to fuss at night and the only thing that seems to soothe her is a little dab of baby orajel and then her vibrating gum massager/toothbrush that I got for her for Christmas (hey, what did you expect, I'm a dental hygienist! :] ) Anyhow she actually loves "brushing her teeth" she'll even take the toothbrush from my hand and do it all by herself. It truly is amazing, I even have it on video! I'm hoping those little teeth will sprout through sooner than later because it kills me to hear her cry. Talking has also become one of her favorite things to do. She has this amazingly high pitched screech that I call her teradactyl noise. She's happy when she makes the noises so we just let her carry on. My mom and & were out to dinner earlier this month and she was just screaching away. People started looking at her but you could see she had a huge smile on her face so I didn't want to shush her so we just let her carry on. :) Jolie has also been laughing a lot. Sometimes she makes this laughing/crying noise but she's figuring it all out. Now she can actually make the noises she wants to, when she wants to, so it really is amazing to hear and see her in action. I thought for sure I would want Jolie to stay a "baby" forever. Each day though as she's able to do more and more things it's so rewarding that I almost can't wait to see what she'll do next. She'll raise her arms up when she wants to be picked up. I say she gives hugs and kisses too when you do pick her up, but that could just be me, haha Here are a few pictures to recap the last couple of months!