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Thursday, February 15, 2007

Hayden, slippery stairs, and the shower..

It looks as if my nephew has a new name. When Venus decided on the name Logan a while back she told her neigbors, Ashlee and Dave. They too are expecting a baby boy.. a month after my sister is due. Well, apparently they really liked the name because yesterday they told my sister that they were naming their lil boy Logan. So my sister got really upset and decided to change the name. Who goes around stealing their friend's baby's name? Apparently ppl who live in Bethesda, Ohio. Anyways... my sister decided on the name Hayden Chandler Jenkins. She said she's never talkin to the neighbors again so she won't know if they are going to steal this name as well.. we'll see. ;-)

When I was home last weekend to paint the mural.. I got to hear baby Hayden's heartbeat. When my sister got in bed I sat there for over an hour with the headphones.. listening all around my sis's belly. It was so much fun but very very exhausting. Just when I would think I heard something.. it would vanish or I'd hear static. But.. I did get to hear him for about 10 seconds.. so it wasn't a total loss. I just can't wait to meet him!

The Cars mural is almost finished. I drew the entire scene on the wall in two nights and painted half of the mural. I didn't have time to finish all of the painting.. which is probably a good thing.. b/c my mother is much better at painting than myself. So should have it finished up in about a week. The shower was a success. I got over two hundred pictures.. some are just hilarious. I think Venus had a great time.. and that is the important thing. The shower actually began later than intended.. b/c I underestimated the time it would take to get everything done. Which always happens.

Well.. I got back home on Monday night. Well.. more like Tuesday in the wee hours. The next morning I got up to walk Rhett and wouldn't you know it.. I fell down a flight of stairs. HARD. Since we practically got a blizzard.. the stairs were covered in snow. That accompanied by a very anxious poodle and a very sleepy patty resulted in what I think to be a dislocated coccyx. I was in so much pain that I seriously thought I was going to have to call an ambulance. I called my mom, who had just fallen down the stairs a few days prior, crying. She told me to take some of the vicodin I have for kidney stones and then put ice on it. The only problem was I couldn't even get up to get ice! Seriously.. moving made me cry. The excruciating pain lasted for almost two days.. then at about 6:00 am I attempted to get up to go to the bathroom when my back made a loud crack. I'm not sure what happened but I can actually walk now. I'm still a lil sore but feel SO SO much better. I'm going in for xrays tomorrow.. just as a safety precaution.. make sure nothing is fractured. My hand, shoulder blade, and coccyx absorbed the majority of the impact.. I swear I'm such a clumsy ass!!! If I could go a week without something horrible happening it would be a miracle!

Anyways.. that is that! Nothing else is new really.. other than the ongoing drama of Dan's lovelife. Which is so confusing I can't even begin to explain!

Ok.. wish me luck tomorrow!!!

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