Month: February 2011

Yesterday we got up early and headed out to Brooklyn to visit my parents and to meet their boarders.  My folks currently have a family of five from California living with them while they look for a house of their own in and around the Lansing area.   I had a very good time looking at houses on-line with them, while Dave tried to get my mom’s printer connected, and Ajax ran around chasing dogs and playing.

We of course went down to the barn see Frannie, Ajax’s favorite horse, and Dave even took Ajax sledding.  Now I must admit, I didn’t want to let Ajax go down the hill because I’m overly paranoid about sledding, but Dave and my mom insisted it would be safe and they were of course right; Ajax had a wonderful time.  He sat on the sled all by himself and my mom caught him at the bottom of the hill.  He did great. Cole was right behind Ajax the entire time, up and down the hill; he’s very protective of Ajax.

While we were at my parent’s house we ended up getting hit with a terrible snow storm.  The weatherman predicted an inch, at the most, and we ended up getting eight.  Needless to say the drive home was horrible and in hindsight we should have just stayed the night, but we didn’t think the roads would be as bad as they were.  At one point I was merging onto the highway with an SUV on my tail, I was thinking this is not the weather for you to be tailgating me buddy, when all of a sudden- poof- the SUV wasn’t there any more, he’d hit a patch of ice and went right off the road, possibly taking the two cars behind him, with him.  It actually went like that all the way home.  We watched one car pass us, just to see him in a ditch two minutes later.   What is normally an hour drive took us two and a half hours.  Ajax who is feeling better was a ball of energy in the car and was none to happy in the car on the way home. This made for a already stressful drive, even more so.

We got home around 8 or so, and Ajax went right into bed for the night.  He is feeling better and is back to sleeping through the night, which is a relief.

Although our home is pretty cozy Ajax seems to forget that we have a dining room off the kitchen.  He also seems to forget that he loves playing under the table back there too.  The other day I was in the kitchen and heard him talking in the back room, when I went to check on him I saw him under the table with some of his toys.  When I asked what he was doing, he smiled and then started doing laps crawling from under the table, than around and back under the chairs.  He had so much fun that I didn’t want to disturb him further and left him to his imagination (as I’m certainly way to big to be crawling around under tables, lol).  I’m always impressed when Ajax is able to entertain himself by making up little games and using his creativity. It’s pretty neat.

Last night I was cleaning the kitchen after dinner and Dave was in the bathroom getting the nino ready for his bath when Ajax told Dave he wanted to “pee pee in the potty.”  Dave asked, you want to sit on the potty?  Ajax said, yea.  So Dave plopped him down on the potty.   At that time I came into the bathroom and Dave and I both praised Ajax for sitting on the potty like a big boy when all of sudden he actually peed in the potty!  I’m not sure who was more surprised, Ajax or us.

Dave and I started yelling and clapping, and congratulating Ajax on a job well done.  We were so proud.  Ajax looked happy and astonished by his achievement and then promptly stuck his finger in the pee while pointing at it.  I then washed his hands.  Throughout the night Ajax kept going back into the bathroom to sit on the potty and look inside the toilet.  He then poked his finger into the pee once more before I called it a night and emptied the potty.

Now, I’m not crazy, I know this was more luck than anything else and that Ajax is no where near being potty trained, lol, but I just thought it was so darn cute I had to share.