Friday with unwelcome guests!


Friday dinnertime I sat eating my spam butties and noticed both Jack and Sasha were both scratching and that is unusual and a quick check under Jacks collar after finishing me dinner confirmed my suspicions.
We had FLEAS oh my god Noooooooo!
So I went back to work and left Jamie to it hahaha my parting gesture was to get Jack outside and tell her to find Sasha and lock her out to!
At work I chatted to as many of the nurses and vets I could on our best coarse of action and we came up with a dose of frontline spot on dogs for Jack and a third of a dose of the same stuff for Sasha. We also bought some spray to fumigate the downstairs of the house to rid us of the little fu.. Critters!
While I did this Jamie took Reagan upstairs for the rest of the night so she was not exposed to any of this which left me to clear all her stuff out of the living room and kitchen and do the deed!
Our planned “date” night would have to wait, a night we had planned a couple of days earlier to allow us some time for us and try not to worry so much about Reagan for a couple of hours.
I think we have broken the cycle now and certainly Jack is free from them but Sasha needed another dose on Saturday because she was scratching so much. Jamie has “hoovered the shit” out of the carpets and I’m sure that will continue until she is confident there are no more critters left!
Reagan woke us at 4am for a feed which I immediately volunteered to take care of but upon going down stairs to make a bottle found the medication had effected Jack in a way I will not be going into too much detail about suffice to say that it is not what I want to be clearing up at 04:20 after failing to stop my daughter screaming at me for more food for 20 minutes but these things are sent to try us so they say….?
I was again woken at around 07:00 by Jack continually banging on the gate between the kitchen and the living room so I went down to see what was wrong fearing the worst but was pleased to see Jack dart to the door to be let out which I did as he was desperate to “GO” again! Unfortunately he had been sick in the kitchen since 4am but at least he had gone to the garden for the other so again I was mop in had bleaching the whole kitchen. He is 13 years old and a survivor of a serious blood disorder a few years back and obviously the meds entering his bloodstream didn’t agree to well with him!
He seems ok now though.

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The Beginning of the end…

Just after this was taken I did a snatch back and hid it!
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What I come home to every night from work!

UNTIDY HOUSE, NO TEA ON THE TABLE, NO BATH RUN, COLD SLIPPERS, NEWSPAPER NOT IRONED, SMOKING JACKET NOT WASHED
AND THIS
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Reagan and Quackers (video)

Reagan on how to pull Quackers properly! She will happily amuse herself if she doesn’ t realise she’s being filmed, once she does it’s only the camera that interests her lol

Hummmm an actress maybe?

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Reagan at 5 Months (pics)

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I love my little girl more than life it’s self, but…

I really do love my little girl more than life it’s self, she is far and away the best thing I have ever done and I think I have done some pretty good things in my 40 years on this earth. She makes me so happy when she smiles just because I walk into a room or laughs at my EXTREMELY funny jokes of which I have bajillions I am the first person she sees every morning when I go to her room and scoop her up in my arms and say good morning she is so excited to see me I melt. The cuddles I get when we are together and she knows she is safe and bury’s her head in my chest with glee because I’m her dad and nothing bad ever happens when dads around……but…?

Jamie left for the gym tonight at 19:10 and left me with a happy Reagamiester but when we had done with the rice and sweat potato and milk she so much enjoyed while eating, her demeanour slowly changed and she SCREAMED her little head off which turned into constant crying and it did not stop no matter what I did. Talking gently, holding her tightly, some of my best jokes and funniest faces did not even make her stop. I bathed her and she cried oh man did she cry and I dried her and dressed her and she cried. I wrapped her in her sleeper while she sobbed and sniffed and cried some more then gave her a bottle and…..SILENCE!

Reagan became again that sweet little girl I love so much….

Not for one minute do I suggest I didn’t love her any less while she cried but it just saddens me to think that she believes throughout that time crying and screaming was really the only way to get through it. It knocks my confidence the whole time to think she has to cry, or that, it is a bad time when dad does bedtime? I would do anything for that little girl, anything to make her happy, anything to make her healthy, anything to make her feel better if I could!

She fell asleep in my arms after only drinking a third of her bottle (and I know I will have to feed her the rest before too long) and I looked down at her and she is the absolute image of her mom but with my eyelashes |:-) Mommy is brilliant and I get jealous how great she is with Reagan sometimes Mom can take control of the situation and calm it all down. She does it so well I forget when she is not there just how much she does for us. I am learning though and the rewards far out way any so called bad bits of having Reagan in my life.

Coffee required cos mom’s not home yet and I my still be called to arms!

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Paperwork Paperwork & more Paperwork

To travel to America next year we need to sort out Reagan’s paperwork, she is a British citizen by birth so she has a British birth certificate which entitles her to a British passport which we can send away for no big deal that fill out a few form pay the man and bingo. It only gets complicated when you consider we want her to have dual citizenship which in the future will entitle her to travel the world so much more freely.

To get this we have to fill out the forms of which there are many pay the man AND go to the American Embassy, Grosvenor Square, London in person to get it so we are hoping we can do it on 1st November the day after the Broncos game at Wembley otherwise its a special trip just to sort out the paperwork.

As a dual national Reagan will then be able to enter and leave America on her American passport and re-enter Britain on her British passport without ever having to justify why or fill out a visa

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Hetty’s Baptism

Congratulations on our friend Henrietta Elizabeth on her Baptism
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Me dads birthday! (911)

Grandchildren are a fantastic gift!
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Cold day 3

Bedtime last night was “a challenge” last night with our sick little padoodle as mommy calls her or Reagan to the rest of the world. We fed her and bathed her and then Calpol’ed her right up administered nasal drops and fed her once more and she was asleep…. for 90 minutes!

Mommy went up first and settled her with booby and laid her down again that lasted about 20 minutes when she scream and screamed and screamed I took a turn but mommy had to take over but she did come up with a brilliant idea prop her up in bed so we got the moses basket and put that in the cot one two pillows so it was at an angle and we eventually got her back to sleep and laid her down again.

Success that was the last we heard of her until 3am and then it was only for food so I volunteered for this one seeing how Jamie was so “unimpressed” the other night. Reagan fed and was back asleep propped up in bed within 40 minutes and she remained asleep again then til 07:30

Although still very congested her smile is still there and she is lively so hopefully she past the worse

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