Babies

Update: The babies are still alive. My mom and I walked over next door (the family is out of town) in the backyard to see if we could find one. I found one near the back of the fence. Mom picked him up but then the baby jumped out quickly and to a nearby tree. I followed him and found the other 2 babies. They all 3 look alive and well. No Mama in site and no 4th bunny. I'm not positive there is a 4th one since I never saw it last night. The babies are actually pretty camouflaged up against the ground. My mom went to leave some carrots, lettuce, etc. by the in case Mama had abandoned them! But our neighbors had already left a head of cabbage. I've added a few more pictures at the end of this post with all 3 babies!

Original: Apparently we have baby rabbits in our backyards. Or rather jointly shared between our backyard and our neighbors backyard. Yesterday, as our neighbor was cutting his grass, he saw one of the babies run right in front of him. The kids rang our doorbell and showed us 1 baby rabbit. About 10 minutes later they come back with 2 more baby rabbits. Apparently, there are 4 baby rabbits. I saw the Mommy rabbit in our backyard last night, probably looking for her babies. So I convinced the kids next door to let them go back in their "hole." When I woke up this morning, the kids were in our backyard. Anyway...they are so precious and cute!!!

I'm a little worried about them surviving in the "wild." We have multiple "neighborhood" cats that roam around in our yard all the time. And there is no way those little babies can escape or outrun the cats.

I think this is the Momma!

Baby bird (Robin) who fell out of the nest :(

I am going to check on the babies again tomorrow!

Fireworks

I thought I would share a few pictures of the fireworks from Saturday night. The place where we were viewing them ended up having a few trees in the way...so it wasn't the best view. However, it was still great! And my pictures turned out pretty good.

Friday night my parents and I went to my cousins house for dinner and to play games! I had a great time at Brandi's party Saturday night and at the pool during the day! I hadn't been to a "party" in a long time...so it was good to go! I guess I wore myself out, because I slept the majority of the day yesterday!

I am babysitting all day tomorrow and Thursday! I haven't had much energy lately, so I'm not sure what's going on there. I don't know if it is related to my back pain or what? My wheezing is CRAZY too as well as being short of breath. Again, I'm not sure if the sob is related to my back pain or not? I might be calling my transplant coordinator this week to seek out her opinion and maybe go ahead and take the Cipro prescription my doctor gave me at clinic. I want to be feeling tip-top shape for my upcoming trips. I'm really out of shape....but can't do a whole lot of exercise due to back pain and pulled knee muscle.

We have a plumber coming to our lake house tomorrow...I'm praying that he can fix whatever the problem is, so we can get back to the lake this weekend!

Oh...and as soon as I have more info on the cat or when we get her, I will post that info!!

Happy 4th and SURPRISE

Ok...so maybe I made out my surprise to be more than it really is. But to me, it is very exciting...to others, maybe not so. So sorry if I got your hopes up for nothing :) Anyway....my Dad came home the other night and started smiling and saying he had something important we had to decide on. Usually when he does this he is joking about something. But then he said he had a client (my Dad is a vet) that brought in a liter of kittens and asked us (my mom and I) if we wanted one??? I asked him if he was serious, and he said yes. The kittens are 8 weeks old and all 4 are girls. Two are Calico cats, one is black and the other is black-and-white. He thought we would want the black-and-white one since that is the color of our previous cat. But we said we really didn't care. Evidently the Calico kittens are a little better tempered than the black and white one. So as long as the kitten tests negative for everything and is "ok" we are getting a cat/kitten! YAY!! We could get the kitten as early as in a few days...just depending on how quick my Dad does the bloodwork and how quick the tests come back. (for post-transplant patients, you have to make sure a cat doesn't have toxoplasmosis, which is very dangerous for post-transplanters.) You don't know how excited I am. We had a cat previously: Mittens, who passed away summer of 2008. I loved her so much and we had her for 17 years....since I was about 6 or 7 years old. She was my baby. And I seriously didn't think my Dad would let us have another cat (especially before another dog....both of our dogs passed away last year too). So that's the surprise!

I hope everyone has a safe and happy 4th of July! I'm hanging out at the pool with Brandi today, then she is having a pretty big party tonight. She has an awesome view of the fireworks display downtown Birmingham puts on every year! And then I'm supposed to go back tomorrow for some more pool time! We've been at the lake every single 4th of July for at least the last 6 years...so it's weird to actually be home (or in town)! But hopefully the water will be fixed, and back to the lake next weekend!

Oh..and did you see my 4th of July picture...very appropriate for my surprise, huh?