2014

2014 has started out as a really busy year.
One of our best friends planned to propose to his girlfriend on New Year's Eve so my mom agreed to keep Emmy overnight so we could join them and celebrate. My sister is pregnant so she offered to be our DD.  SO.... No kid. No driving. NO RULES!
Without going in to too many embarrassing details, we took too many shots (I apparently have no tolerance for alcohol anymore) and then proceeded to sing, dance and slide across hardwood floors, participated in a speed-typing contest (which I lost and got pissed and continued to play by myself), attempted to hook up a Wii so I could play Just Dance and finally tried to convince my husband that it was not too late (2AM) and that it was definitely a good idea to spend the night with our friends. 

This pretty much sums up my new year's eve shenanigans.
The next day was the WORST.DAY.OF.MY.LIFE. 
I can't remember ever being so hungover and I hated myself so much. It took the better part of a week to start feeling better.

 What made it all worse is that Emmy learned how to climb out of her crib so we decided to convert her crib to a toddler bed so she wouldn't hurt herself. We were nervous she wasn't ready but were also excited to let her read books in her bed and wake up on her own. I moved the bookcase in her room to her closet so that it was a little safer for her to get her books and started getting excited about turning her room into a little girl room rather than a nursery. I was the only one excited, Emmy was terrified. 
 After a week of long nights, late mornings, terrible naps and general irritability for all individuals in our home - we put the wall back up on the crib. What do you know? She's back to sleeping 12 hours a night and no crying. Sometimes, the kid just isn't ready and that's okay. 

In the middle of all of this, Rufus's eye started acting up. At first it was just squinty and red but it quickly turned cloudy and he started acting very lathargic. We took him to the vet immediately. $150 later, he was on antibiotics and pain meds for an infection. 3 days later we didn't see much improvement so I took him to a veterinary ophthalmologist. We found out he has secondary glaucoma, a reaction to the injury and he had lost most of his vision in that eye. I'm writing this as if I were calm, and I mostly was but guys, Rufus is my little man! He is the sweetest, best pup and he's only 4 years old, I had to choke back tears the whole time the vet was with us. He was so much braver than me, letting the vet poke and prod him and never crying or growling.  There is still a chance his vision will come back, the medication he's on now is much stronger and the cloudy stuff in his eyes is almost all cleared up. 
The lesson I learned from this is that if your pet has a problem with something like it's eye, take it straight to a specialist. Always. Our vet is great but those 3 days may have caused permanent blindness and the pain our pup was experiencing makes me feel terrible. The specialist was $210 but we wouldn't have had to have a referral to make that appointment. 
I am so looking forward to a calm weekend. I tend to think that how the new year starts is a sign of how it will go but I really hope that's not this case this year or it's going to be a crazy year!