Doggy Door

Due to our electric bill this past month, Derek and I had to make some changes. Specifically, the sliding glass doggy door. Therefore, we purchased a wall doggy door that is energy saver rated and had it put into our wall. Needless to say this energy saver doggy door did not come cheap. After getting it installed and patting ourselves on the back, we noticed one small problem...... Daisy is terrified of the new doggy door. We tried everything we could to get her to use it. We even had to push her through a couple of time, which is not small task considering she is over 70pounds. I wish I had a picture to depict Derek on one side and me on the other pushing/pulling Daisy through the doggy door. I am sure she will eventually use it on her own; however, we still hold our breath every time we come home to make sure she didn't leave us any surprises.

Four Month Check-Up

This morning I had my four month check-up and everything is right on track. My mom went with me since Derek is in trial today. We listened to Baby Cargill's heart rate, which was a perfect 156. We also found out that at our next appointment on August 26Th that we will have an ultrasound and find out the gender.

On Saturday I had to break down and buy maternity clothes. (Okay my mom bought them for me........ thanks Mom). However, I am still surprised to see my changing belly. Derek and I also had another wonderful surprise this weekend. Casey, Camille and Addison came to Dallas this weekend to do some last minute shopping for Casey's new house and Baby Jackson. It was wonderful to see them and Addison is getting so big. I hope Derek and I are able to make it up to Amarillo sometime soon to see the new house and have some of Camille's wonderful home cooked meals.

Don't Mess With Shamu

Derek and I went to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's presentation of The Blue Planet last night. It is part of the Symphony's summer program to get people out to the Symphony. The Blue Planet was the orchestra playing live to images of the Discovery Channel's Blue Planet film of the ocean life. It was really good and Derek and I are planning to try to go out there again. Since this was part of the Symphony's summer program, there were a lot of kids in the audience. However, there were two segments of the film featuring the Killer Whale i.e. Shamu. In one feature Shamu had struggled with a blue whale mom for over 6 hours trying to get to the baby calf. Shamu won and drowned the baby blue whale. In the other feature Shamu leaps onto a beach and snatches a sea lion and then proceeds to take it out to the open ocean and toss it around and play with its "victim" before eating it. The entire time I was thinking........... Wow, I wonder what all these kids think about Shamu now?

Also, I started crying during the segment about the baby blue whale. Derek was so embarrassed, but I am going to blame it on the hormones. However, in my defense, it really was sad to watch.