A December to Remember
Friday, December 5: I did a root canal on a 210lb. Irish wolfhound. I hadn't finished my records, so after picking Maggie up from Chinese school, we went back to the hospital. She was brave and had several photos taken with my wonderfully sweet patient.
Sunday, December 7: The California International Marathon. We spent Saturday night in Folsom, then woke at 5 to drive Edward to the start by 6. Maggie and I then drove to old Fair Oaks, where we had breakfast at a cute little cafe and met several roosters (who were already crowing at 6:30am even though it was still dark!).
In the above photo, the rooster is actually jumping up to attack Maggie. I didn't realize it when I was shooting, because when I lined up the shot he was still on the curb. The shutter went off a split second before Maggie even realized the rooster had jumped on her. She promptly whined and ran over to me!
But that didn't stop us from having a great morning (we just kept our distance from the roosters from then on!). Maggie enjoyed her hot cocoa
and waited to cheer on Baba with signs and cowbells.
He didn't see us in old Fair Oaks (Mile 10), so we drove to Loehman's Plaza (Mile 20) and waited there as well. This time we saw Peter as well as Baba, who also saw us. Maggie had to go potty, so we endured a long line, which delayed us in getting to the finish, so we didn't see Baba cross the line, which made me really sad. But we found him moments later, had a joyous reunion, and celebrated his finish AND the fact that he qualified for the Boston Marathon.
Hooray! Hopefully Ella will adjust well enough for all of us to go to Boston, particularly since we have family and friends there.
Speaking of Ella, while Baba was running his marathon, Ella was about to wake up to her 2nd birthday. We were quite sad not to have been with her, as back in August there was still some hope that we'd actually meet her on her birthday, just as we had with Maggie. But we sent her a cake, with a note and camera attached, from Red Thread China. Imagine my surprise when I found 7 photos of Ella's birthday celebration in my e-mail today!! Ann from Red Thread went above and beyond to send them and we are so thankful.
This is my favorite pic:
Isn't she precious??
Sunday, December 7: The California International Marathon. We spent Saturday night in Folsom, then woke at 5 to drive Edward to the start by 6. Maggie and I then drove to old Fair Oaks, where we had breakfast at a cute little cafe and met several roosters (who were already crowing at 6:30am even though it was still dark!).
In the above photo, the rooster is actually jumping up to attack Maggie. I didn't realize it when I was shooting, because when I lined up the shot he was still on the curb. The shutter went off a split second before Maggie even realized the rooster had jumped on her. She promptly whined and ran over to me!
But that didn't stop us from having a great morning (we just kept our distance from the roosters from then on!). Maggie enjoyed her hot cocoa
and waited to cheer on Baba with signs and cowbells.
He didn't see us in old Fair Oaks (Mile 10), so we drove to Loehman's Plaza (Mile 20) and waited there as well. This time we saw Peter as well as Baba, who also saw us. Maggie had to go potty, so we endured a long line, which delayed us in getting to the finish, so we didn't see Baba cross the line, which made me really sad. But we found him moments later, had a joyous reunion, and celebrated his finish AND the fact that he qualified for the Boston Marathon.
Hooray! Hopefully Ella will adjust well enough for all of us to go to Boston, particularly since we have family and friends there.
Speaking of Ella, while Baba was running his marathon, Ella was about to wake up to her 2nd birthday. We were quite sad not to have been with her, as back in August there was still some hope that we'd actually meet her on her birthday, just as we had with Maggie. But we sent her a cake, with a note and camera attached, from Red Thread China. Imagine my surprise when I found 7 photos of Ella's birthday celebration in my e-mail today!! Ann from Red Thread went above and beyond to send them and we are so thankful.
This is my favorite pic:
Isn't she precious??
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