DYK 2012: It's the end of the world as we know it.... :-)

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DYK 2012: It's the end of the world as we know it.... :-)
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Sun, 01-01-2012 - 12:34am

dyk Happy 2012!!!

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DYK oh no, Jamie. I am tearing up. :(. Keep us posted, and we'll all be thinking about you

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dyk Jamie. I am so sorry. I am just... stunned. It's heartbreaking to lose a pet, but we know that Barlow was so much more to you and John and I am so sorry that he is sick. So sorry.

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dyk I'm gonna tell y'all about Dek's birthday party -- maybe that'll help cheer you up Jamie. Little kids are funny. Just a little heart lift for everyone.

dyk there were 18 kids and 10 adults. Most of the kids were 8 and under. That's a lot of kids. Our playscape looked like an advertisement -- where there are kids playing happily on every single piece of it. Hanging off the sides... lol

dyk and it helps that we own a bounce house and trampoline and a balance beam as well.

dyk my kids are SPIOLED rotten rotten rotten lol

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dyk with the net on the trampoline, we put the ladder back so Ellie can climb up -- yes, Ellie can climb ladders, stairs, and the kids rock wall -- WTH? lol

dyk and I videod and one of the videos I had the setting wrong and it took it in slow motion and it's HYSTERICAL!!!!

dyk then I have an ADORABLE 90 second video of her jumping -- she can two foot jump jump and kick her legs out to drop down onto her bottom

dyk she's advanced like that haha!!

dyk they are uploading now.

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dyk Ellie bouncing in slow motion -- OMG hysterical

dyk there is no sound -- not sure why? I was in a strange setting not even sure how I did it actually

http://s827.photobucket.com/albums/zz195/jenniemadsen1/?action=view&current=Ellieslowmotion.mp4

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dyk here is Ellie -- she loved the bounce house because she can get in and out of it on her own at her own will -- that's great fun.

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dyk I talked to Jamie -- Barlow had been fine, and while they were gone, became ill, vomiting, etc, and the vet did an xray and found a large tumor on his spleen and it has spread to his lungs

dyk she said they are lucky to get warning as the most common "symptom" of this type of cancer is sudden death

dyk so heartbreaking

dyk I told her to update us as we were all thinking about her and cared for her and Barlow and John

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dyk look at all the early childhood kiddos

dyk over spring break I hope to have more "parties" like this -- where the kids can come over and just run wild in the backyard for a couple hours

dyk summer is mostly out for us for this type of play b/c it's SO HOT

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dyk when I sent Dek's invitation I added a line at the bottom about his interests in legos, 200+ piece puzzles and anything horses and cheetahs

dyk and I almost didn't put it on there -- not wanting to be presumptious, but I am so glad that I did

dyk everyone got him something in that relm and he is SO EXCITED and has already opened and played and inspected every. single. thing. he. got.

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