Meet Victoria

She was my partner for a good part of my stay in Ohio while I was taking care of Cooper and whatever else fell my way. She is Missi's husband's aunt and I thank God for her huge part in my daughter's life. What would I, and Missi and John, have done without her? The best part of all is what she does for stress relief. Are you ready? She cleans and organizes!!! Ha ha ha!!!

The Three Little Kittens

Ramona's labor was a trip! I had NO IDEA! But the night before she decides to sleep at my feet. When I got up to go to the bathroom, she followed me, and then back to my feet when I laid down again. In the morning I got the kids breakfast together and I heard Clara say, a black kitty! But I tuned it out. Then I heard mew, mew, mew, mew and Missi says, mom? What is that? I turned and looked and Ramona had a black kitten under the kitchen table!!! I ran to the basement to look for something for her to have her kittens in and the only thing I could come up with was a laundry basket. But that was PERFECT! I laid a towel in the bottom of it and within a couple of hours we had a total of three kittens.

Awwwwww ...

Ramona

While all this is going on with my daughter I start suspecting that her cat, the sweetest cat I've met, Ramona, is pregnant. No! She can't be pregnant! She's never been in heat. Humfpt! Oh yeah?

Always a Ham

Grandma! Take a picture of me! Then I take the picture and she comes running over and says, let me see! Let me see! Then I hear, grandma, take another picture of me. Let me see! Let me see! This goes on for quite a few pictures and she's never bored of it. I'm the one that says that this is enough.

Heat Wave? What Heat Wave?

This is fun! I could get used to this. Grandma, will you bring us back here?

And I did!

Indian Lake

Looking good grandma!

Indian Lake

This was a difficult day for me. Just the day before my daughter, who'd just been discharged from the hospital two days previously, passed a blood clot to her R lung. She was back in the hospital and going through horror upon horrors. But it was decided by her that since I'd promised the Q and Clara to take them to the beach and that we were still going to the beach.

And so we did.

Missi said she had such fond memories of 'the beach' when she was a kid and wanted me to make the memories for them too. And so I did. They had a great day and just loved it and asked me to bring them back.

And I did.

We had fun grandma!

Cooling Off

Do they look like there's an oppresive heat wave going on? Nope! They're having too much fun!

After Six Weeks in the Hospital

And after almost 75 pounds of water taken off her with lasix here she is now. For some funny reason the remaining water is in her belly area and she has a small pooch.

Aren't we lucky though? Cooper, the baby, is perfect. Missi fell apart during her pregnancy and struggled with an undiagnosed heart condition that almost did her in, but the baby was PERFECT! And what a good baby she is!

Now if we could just get over having to feed the poor thing formula. Having breast fed all my babies and Missi doing the same with hers, using formula is new to us. I never saw so much gas. Poor thing would be sleeping soundly and start writhing and crying and then pass gas or a burp. Yucky stuff! But then look at her. She looks like she's thriving well.

Happy birthday Cooper! You're two months old today!