Lucky the Baby Squirrel

So I'm on the phone with Lindsey yesterday morning and looked out the back door to see Kitty pummeling what looks like a tiny pink fetus. And its kind of barely moving. So I scream and cuss and Kitty and I'm freaking out trying to figure out what it is that she is torturing. She picks it up in her mouth and tries to run away with it but I grabbed her tail and she put it down. So I grab her up by her collar and throw her inside and I go inside with her to stare at the tiny creature and try to figure out what it is. It is moving its teeny little arm like its waving at me. So sad! Its so new that its eyes hadn't even opened yet, thank god, so at least it couldn't SEE the vicious cat with the sharp fangs and claws. So I concluded that it had to be a newborn squirrel. I quickly googled baby squirrel and "baby squirrel care" popped up. I clicked on it and it said it was most important to keep it warm. And it was laying out on my freezing cold concrete porch. I put a towel in the dryer to warm it up and when it was warm I put my hands in some ziplock baggies and picked it up and put it in the towel. It also said to fill up a water bottle with hot water and wrap the bottle in a towel and place that by the cold baby squirrel. So I did that too. It had some links to some wildlife rescue people but I couldn't get them to work so I called our vet and they gave me a number that I called and got a recording to leave a message unless its about a sick or injured animal and then to call this other number. So I call the other number and also get a recording to leave a message. I left messages on both and got a call back pretty quickly from a lady in Arlington that wasn't home but gave me a number to another lady who is some squirrel expert who is also in Arlington. So I call her and she wants me to bring her the squirrel. I told her I couldn't right then b/c of my sleeping baby and that I was afraid the little squirrel wasn't going to make it much longer. So she said she would come get it. When I initially picked it up it had stopped moving and so I thought it might be gone already but then after it had been in the towel for a couple of minutes I could see that it would move a little bit when I would crinkle the towel around it. The lady finally got here and put it in this little pouch thing and then inside a little plastic cage and took it home. She said it needed antibiotics immediately since it had been in contact with a cat but that she had seen much worse and that more than likely it would be fine. I told her to call it Lucky. Wow, what a morning. Thank goodness all that happened right after I had put Olivia down for her nap so she wasn't involved. Here are a couple of pics of little Lucky. I put the phone in the second pic to show how tiny Lucky is.

Lately

I feel bad that I haven't taken very many pictures these past couple of months but it is so hard to get a picture of Olivia because she is never still! I get so frustrated because I will sit and take ten pictures in a row hoping to get one good one and they all turn out blurry because she won't be still. Oh well. She is getting SO big and changing SO much! Her top tooth is very visible now and she grinds it on the bottom two teeth which drives me insane. And her hair is getting longer every day. She used to be so good at not messing with her headband bows but now she almost always pulls them down around her neck every time we get in the car. Same with her hats, unless they have chin straps. She will eat anything you offer her and she has started drinking from a straw and thinks that is so fun. She is pulling up on everything she can and "cruising" around while holding onto the furniture. I can't believe she will be a year old next month! Here are a few random pictures...

chillin in her carseat

playin peekaboo with her mitten

rear view of olivia watchin elmo on the computer and dancing

front view (excuse the mohawk, i had just used a warm washcloth to melt a dried booger out of her bangs, LOL!)

you can kinda see her new top toofy in this one

this is after i realized i was taking pics of her with a wet mohawk so i tried to lay her hair down with this headband she was playing with. her hair is lookin rough these days b/c its at that in-between stage but we'll work through it :)

Ducks

Olivia loves ducks. Elmo's ducks are her favorite. There is the cutest video on sesamestreet.org with Elmo and his ducks singing and quacking and she could watch it a million times in a row. So lately we've noticed that when she sees one of her rubber duckies or any other type of duck toy or decoration (my mom has some wooden ducks on her kitchen wall) she will point and say DUH. SO since it is raining and 48 degrees I decided we should go feed some real ducks, LOLOL. I didn't realize it was raining until I backed out of the garage, I only had 30 mins til naptime and we HAD to get outta the house for a little bit b/c she was DONE with her toys, her shows, etc... So I figured we could just feed the ducks from inside the car. Which we did. I pulled up to the lake and there were several ducks hanging out inside and outside the water and when I opened my door they all started quacking like crazy and running toward me. It was kinda scary so I jumped back in the car. I was only getting out to unbuckle Olivia and put her in the front seat with me so I just did that from inside the car and then rolled my window down and she stood on my leg and hung out the window with her raincoat on and watched all the ducks. I was only planning on using about 3 pieces of bread but it seemed like ducks kept coming. They were endless. I decided I should take a picture. Ducks don't like being photographed. Every time I took a picture they would turn and run back to the water. It was so weird. But then if I put the camera down and threw out more bread they would all come running back. Olivia loved it and I'm sure feeding the ducks is going to be one of her favorite new activities.

Waffles and Piggy Tails

Meredith told me that when Kylie was a baby she would give her a frozen waffle to gnaw on to soothe her gums while she was teething. I tried that with Olivia and she LOVES her some waffles. She's getting a tooth on the top and I can tell it is bothering her a lot more than those first two on the bottom. But I'm hoping the temperature and texture of the frozen waffles helps with her discomfort.

Olivia's hair has grown a lot lately so I decided to see if she would wear a little clip and maybe some piggy tails. They are tiny little piggy tails but they are cute.

Lovin on Poppy

Olivia, King and I went to my parents house the other day and when my dad got home from work Olivia wanted nothing but to lay on him and hug on him. It was so sweet.

Laying Low

I've been a bad blogger. But there hasn't been a whole lot going on these days. We went to the ranch with Chris, Lara and Hayden for New Years and that was fun. I'll post pics when I get them from Lara. Then we went to Lubbock last weekend to hang out with Jason & Lindsey and the boys. We didn't take any pics though, boo. Except I had Lindsey take a few pics of Nathan, Preston and Olivia all taking a bath together. That was too cute and I'll post those pics when I get them from Lindsey. Other than that, I thought Olivia was sick for the first time a few weeks ago because she got really hot and was not acting like her normal lively self. She had no snot, no coughing or anything though so I thought maybe it could be an ear infection so I took her to the doctor and he said she was perfect. So I guess maybe teething gave her the fever and made her all clingy and miserable. Then she got this awful rash all over her face, chest and tummy and back. It was so weird but I had heard Lindsey and Allison say when their kids had broken their fever they would develop a rash so I thought maybe that is what it was but I decided she got it from being nudey except for her diaper and laying against me with a blanket covering her. Because Johnnie accidentally bought Tide w/bleach and that is what my shirt had been washed in and I think it irritated her skin. It lasted a couple of days and went away but I took a pic of it.

Other than that we've just been laying low, staying home. After being at the ranch for almost a week I didn't want to leave my house when we got home. It took me a week just to get through unpacking and doing the laundry and everything so I hated to even get out of my pajamas or leave the house. We've got a lot of fun stuff coming up this month and next month to keep us busy though so that will be fun.