Keep on, keeping on

First of all, I am feeling way better about things. Just needed to vent a little. Quinn and I have been keeping up the breast feeding, and I think it is going well. Her weight gain (her overall weight gain, not when doing the "test" weights) has been good and steady, and she is well on her way to six pounds. She took almost a full bottle from Dalan this afternoon, so even if they never believe she is getting a full feeding from the breast, they can see her progress on the bottle. I am just going to try to not stress about it. Thanks for all the nice comments, made me feel totally supportive and not alone.

Quinn agrees that breast feeding is a good idea, and gave me a little "power to the people" sign.

(solidarity)

Next, Dalan and I had a funny little happening in our neighborhood this afternoon. He took Piper on a walk while I did some things, and started pumping. When he got home, he told me that there were some four year olds doorbell ditching up and down the street, so if someone knocked/rang, that it was probably them. He went to clean out his truck, while I was pumping. All of a sudden our front door opens, follows by a little arm. I let out a weird little scream, the dog barked, and Dalan told them to get out. He left. Dalan told them they could not just go into someone's house without knocking and being invited in. They then asked if they could come in our house, he said no. They asked why not. He told them because he was busy. They moved on to the next house, and Dalan came in and locked the door for me. Not two minutes later, I can hear them trying to get back in. They then asked Dalan if he had a baby or a son for them to play with. He told them no, and headed back toward the house, and the little twerps tried to follow him the house! He practically had to slam the door in their faces, all while I was pumping. They finally left, and Dalan watched them bust in to a house across the street. Crazy kids!

There are creatures all around us

We live kind of close to a taxidermy studio. It is rumored that the man who owns said studio is the father of the girl who played Kelsi Nielson in High School Musical. I don't know if it is true or not, but that is what a girl who does my nails on occasion told me, and they went to regular high school, not musical high school, together, or something like that.

Anyway, from time to time they have these giant wax sculptures out in front of their shop. They look like the wax figures you used to be able to get at Hogle Zoo, except a million times bigger. I have no idea if there are real dead animals encased in the wax, or if it is just a recreation of an animal someone shot. I actually have no idea if the material is even wax, but it looks like wax, so that is what I am calling it. We have seen bear and elk in wax before, but most recently a hippo and a giraffe. I am not really into stuffed, dead animals, but it was quite shocking to see such exotic animals in our neighborhood. Again, I have no idea if there was a real hippo/giraffe shipped from Africa to be stuffed, or just recreations. Speaking of the zoo, I hope one day there is a wax liger in my neighborhood. That would be something.


Dalan walked Piper over to the studio today to get a picture of the wax figures for me. Our neighborhood creep (we have another name for him, but it is not appropriate for the blog, email me if you want to know it) was standing outside of the building smoking, so Dalan and Piper took a lap hoping he would be gone by the time they got back. He wasn't, so Dalan quickly snapped the picture anyway, and then took one of Piper to give the illusion that he was just a man taking pictures of his dog, not of the random exotic wax figures in his neighborhood, and therefore possibly making himself the new neighborhood creep. The picture of the wax figures....excellent. The picture of Piper....not so much.