Our World

James has been working on stocking up our wood pile for the winter, with the hopes of setting some aside for next years cold season as well. With the help of my brother they were able to cut & split 1 cord of wood a few weeks ago & another trailer waiting to be split. Last night James and I spent the evening stacking the wood in our basement. Yes, our basement. The wood that we're cutting has a very minimal amount of insects in it, so we stack it in the basement. This keeps it out of the elements and allows it to dry out quite a bit as well.

All signs point to teething. We're almost postive Dexter is cutting some teeth, although several people have said that is is too early. The reasearch I've been doing say that sometimes teething pain can begin up to 2 months before the tooth actually breaks the surface. The past couple of days have been fully of crying & fussing, and an all around unhappy kid.

Monday night was an unusual night. The carbon monoxide detector decided the battery was low and began to chirp in the middle of the night. After James took out the battery and came back to bed Dexter woke up and was hungry. While James was getting him up the smoke alarms went off causing Dexter to scream & Dakota to plaster himself to the nearest human & start shaking like a leaf. Dakota does best in these kind of circumstances to be let ouside until things settle down. I took Dexter while James toured the house to see what set off the smoke alarms. The smoke alarms tripping is a normal occurance in our home, when we get a power surge, or a power failure it sets off all the alarms in the house. James came back to check on Dexter & I- no need to worry all is well. As long as we were all up James put a new battery in the carbon monoxide detector & I finished feeding Dexter. We then went to bed. About an hour later I woke up to hear a strange dog bark, it sounded like a larger dog, but was annoying like a little one (also referred to as "yippy" dogs). We called Dakota to come in and he was glad to do so. Upon further inspection the next day we found Dakota had a few spots that were bleeding, teeth marks. After a little more thought we have come to the conclusion that Dakota decided he wanted to play with some coyotes. We've told him before they don't play fair, but I guess he needed to figure that out himself.

That's the latest & greatest in our family. Hope all is well with you!