And then we rest...

After a couple long weeks of not much sleep, moving and just craziness, Cooper and I are starting to settle in. Cooper is still learning a lot and has had several firsts in the last week. Cooper learned to go down the stairs and Cooper hiked the M!

I am going to be sitting out this semester from school, mostly because of medical stuff and just the overall expense of being an off-campus MBA student but will be looking to start up again next fall and hopefully finishing in the spring next year!

The stomach stuff is about the same. Several other radiologists believe there is inflammation in the small intestine so I will be getting another catscan in February - let's hope that is the last one!!

Another Week with Cooper

Cooper is now a little over eight weeks old. He is growing all the time and getting more and more of an attitude! He has learned a great deal and can sit, lay down, fetch, and come pretty well on command. He also bites all the time and it doesn't feel good! I have a new pet patio door so he can go outside and I am trying to teach him to go outside and use the potty pad out there instead of putting potty pads throughout the apartment. He will learn in a couple of days if I stay patient enough. Cooper is getting VERY good at sleeping in his crate. I actually put him in it tonight in my room and left the door open and he has stayed in there and is asleep but the door is still open! What a change! I noticed he ran into his crate a couple of times today when he got scared of the vacuum. His crate really is becoming his safe spot.

I still have a lot of work to do on the apartment. My room is pretty well trashed still. I hope to go to goodwill tomorrow and see if they have any cheap dressers. Tomorrow will be a day of football and Germany - I hope to finish my work on the Germany studies tomorrow!

Cooper goes to the Vet!

Cooper got a little check up today and we also checked out his cough. He has kennel cough and has antibiotics for that now. He doesn't cough much and actually was better tonight. The vet said it was going around town. He is sleeping in his crate right next to me now. He did some yelping but has settled down now - hopefully for 3-4 hours but we will see!!

AHHHHH!

Cooper is eating everything!!! :-)

More Cooper and New Apartment

Cooper is doing better and better. Today he was unbelievable!!! He has struggled with the leash and this morning he did really good!!! His job with the leash this morning was very encouraging. He can sit whenever I tell him to and this morning we did a little "get the stick". He even ran on the leash this morning. He also climb both sets of stairs this morning twice!!! He held his poo longer twice this morning. He went at 11:30pm and 6am and then 11:20am! What a good dog Cooper is!!!
I also moved into my new place, you can see a couple pics on flickr!!!

What's up with the Colts? It is currently 14-0!!! YIKES!!

My Messed Up Intestines!

I have been seeing the doctor about some stomach/ intestinal problems I have been having for years and years - well, today i had an endoscopy. They sprayed some stuff on the back of my throat to kill the gag reflex and then they put me to sleep. It was great!!! I didn't know anything was happening and they stuck a tube down my throat and took some pictures of my esophagus, stomach, and the first part of my small intestine. The pictures showed up normal. They took a specimen off my intestine to check for celiac disease which I will find out about later. They have also decided too have be do another catscan as two other radiologists read my previous catscan and are concerned that their might truly be some inflammation that my doc wasn't sure was really inflammation and not just healthy standing up villa!! Anyway, they gave me some pics of my insides and just knew you all would love to see them - so enjoy. One of them is my vocal cords, esophagus, stomach, and part of small intestine... All for now.

A visitor!

Cooper has this friend, it is really his Aunt Janine!! Aunt Janine came to visit two nights ago and brought Cooper a gift!!! She brought a really cute passifier dog chew toy. There was also a dog toenail clipper and another chew toy. Cooper enjoyed the passifier all that night. Thanks Aunt Janine!!!

A week with Cooper

I have had several nights and days now with Cooper. He is learning a lot and learning to sleep for longer periods of time at night!!! The first couple nights were tough and I slept very little. Last night I slept for about 5 hours straight tho!!! He is getting a lot more endurance too! We are still working on our early morning walks with the leash! I think he is still a little young for the leash but I am still trying to get him acquainted to it.
We will be moving in to our new place tomorrow so I hope that will give a little more structure to his life and he can make progress in training and just overall confidence.

Coop Sleeps

Well, Coop was up early this morning and did his duties on the pee pad and then we went outside and he pooped outside!!! I know, HOW EXCITING!! He then wanted to play a little while and pretty much slept on my neck all night - literally! I slept on the floor out in the living room so that i could be next to him and we were close - let me tell you. He must of found it really comfy to sleep on my neck. i was on my back when he first crawled up and slept for a good while i am sure on the back of my neck. Then i decided to roll over and moved him and he came back up and slept on the front of my neck. I was pretty well awake so have decided to get up and get some work done for job #2 before going to job #1. We will probably go for a short walk around 6:20 after feeding him around 6. So, I have about an hour and fifteen minutes to get some work done!!!

His Name is Cooper!!!

Mom helped to come up with this name and I have decided it is great!!! Cooper seems to be adjusting just fine. He visited the girls' house and pooped on their lawn! - better than someplace else!! He has figured out a couple of his toys and is enjoying them! He is excited to move into our new apartment this weekend and so am I!!!

My Little Puppy

Well I did it!!! I got me a new black lab puppy! I need to go out and get some puppy supplies so will leave you with some pics!

A January Hike

Brian and I went on a hike today down near Lolo Hot Springs. There was some snow but it really was great weather for a hike up a mountain. We didn't see any big animals but saw lots of prints in the snow. Brian had been up this way before and followed a herd of about 20 elk there. It's about time to take Sierra and Zion for a walk so I am outta here!!

My Place to Jog

I know it hasn't been since last year that I blogged, but give me a break!! We haven't had much snow - really since the one week and now it has been warm enough that the snow has pretty well melted. SO, my running spot is runnable!!! I went up on Mt. Sentinel just the other night - I think it was Thursday, the 5th of January. I took Zion and we jogged up and then jogged down. I was going to go across the fire road as well but I couldn't find my headlamp and I wasn't able to take Sierra so I felt like i needed to get back down and take Sierra for a walk. The scenery up there is just great, I love it.