Goodbye Our Chewy...

 

It was love at first sight, the moment you came over our house to "check us out" if we were the right home for you. I can't stop thinking about you the way we bonded instantly and the way you bonded instantly with Skye. Our search for another pet is finally over. We found the one. It was you. Imagine our excitement when our adoption application for you got approved...

We will forever be grateful to the AZ RESCUE team for saving you from the kill list. We found you through them and life has never been the same for us. I always think you saved us more than we saved you. Thank you for choosing us.

It seems like 5 years with us was a very short time. I still wanted to bring you and Skye to run around the beach. Been wanting to do that for so long. Like to see you, Skye and Mikka running along the shore freely, with no leash just enjoying the breeze by the sea. So sorry that Apache lake was the closest we can do :( But I guess, God has His reasons for taking you this early and maybe it really is time for you to go because you have fulfilled your life's purpose...

It's been a month now since we lost you. We still can't believe you are gone. There is not a single day that I have not thought of you and what could I have done to prevent you from "leaving" us :( I can't seem to stop crying. How can I possibly let you go?

I regret so many things. I regret having shouted at you when you almost knocked the Christmas tree down a day before you left. I regret that I fell asleep after I let you out in the backyard to go potty so you had to wait for daddy for a bit to let you back in. I regret I wasn't able to say and hug you goodnight the night before you left us as I normally do. I regret not letting you lie down on the newly installed carpets in the bedroom because I didn't want it filled with your hair. So many things Chew... I wish I could turn back the time...

I miss your cuddles and hugs, your silly antics whenever you're playing with your toys, seeing you run around being oh so big and furry, you loving your belly rubs, your kisses, you being so content with me brushing your hair without quirms or anything, you being such a gentle dog who always let me go ahead first when we step in or out of the door, I miss you for not pulling whenever we walk and you made sure you walk right next to me.

I miss the complements I get from a lot of people saying you're such a beautiful dog every single time we walk outside. I miss how you sometimes almost get excited with your treats you almost bite my fingers accidentally but when I say it hurts you'd automatically grab your treat very gently next time. I miss your silly dances whenever you get excited that your food is almost ready. I miss the many times that you just let us lay our heads on your big belly. I miss the times when you make me feel that you trust me with all your heart because you don't let anyone else touch the inside of your sensitive ears except for me whenever I clean them. I miss that you try to beat Skye whenever I come home and ask for you both to give me a hug and you hurriedly come running to me first and tuck your head on my arms. I miss the time whenever I ask Mikka to chew her food by saying "Chew!!!" and you'd come rushing thinking I must have called for you....

We miss you a lot Chewy. I know we've been busy a couple of years since Mikka came to our lives and we were not able to bring you to other places other than the parks close to home. My heart aches with regret that I didn't see the signs that you were trying to say goodbye... how can I miss that?

In the morning when I saw you fighting for your life, did you know that I hurried the best I could to get ready to bring you to your vet just before they open? I hope you heard me say that everything's going to be alright and that I love you and for you to please hang in there. It must have been really scary for you going through that... heck I was scared too! I am so sorry my Cbewy that we were not able to bring you to the vet in time... I feel that I failed you... I should have just stayed next to you until we figure things out.

Thank you though for waiting for me and daddy to wake up that morning at least we were able to cuddle you on your last moments. My guardian angel somehow woke me up really early that day so I was able to check on you, put a big blankie on you and I was able to say that I love you one last time (though I didn't know that it was the last time I'd see you alive). After I got ready a few minutes after trying to call the vet so I can bring you there ASAP... I checked on you again... but you were gone. Daddy and I cried like babies non-stop. We couldn't believe seeing you there so lifeless and it dawned to us, you were gone....  It took me sometime to process it and I can't begin to accept that we were too late to save you. You were not responding when we touched you and we know... we know you were gone!!!! You were still so warm and your fur still feel so soft.. we cried and cried and cried and cried our hearts out. December 28, 2011, 6:20am, you went to Heaven.

Thank you for the 5 years of memories with us. Thank you for choosing us to be your forever family. Thank you for letting us love you and having you in our lives. You were a great dog and nothing could ever replace the memories we all shared with you. We know that you are in a happier place now and we take peace knowing that we did our best to give you the best possible 2nd chance at life.

Thank you that even after you were gone, you still find ways to touch our lives. On your supposed to be 8th birthday, on Jan 9, 2012, we found out that daddy and I are having another baby. Maybe I am thinking this too much but in my heart it felt like you didn't want us to be sad on your birthday so the perfect gift of life was revealed to us on the day we could have wallowed with sadness missing you to bits and pieces. Instead, you made your birthday a joyous day for us reminding us to be more thankful with our blessings and for us to celebrate the gift of life.

We love you so much Chewy and know that you will always be a part of us. You will be in our hearts forever.. especially mine. May you Rest In Peace my dearest puppy. You are loved and forever will be. We will always remember you.. my baching-baching...

My picture wall!!!

Wahoooooo! This thing took me and hubby more than an hour to put together! So much for their claim saying that in 10 mins you'd have a picture wall with the template they provided.

I was going to surprise hubby that I've done it on my own while kiddo was asleep (and hubby at work), but he came home and I was still working on this thing.

It's alright though, I think it's worth the time and effort ;)

Now all I need to do is to put real pictures on them ;) Yay!!!

Holy cow, my plants are still alive!!!

First time I planted some flowers that lived this long (about a few days). I'm so happy they are thriving ;)

They said that your entry way through your main door has got to be clean, open, inviting and clutter free for good luck... so I cut the old plant by the entryway that was blocking the view of the door from the outside and planted some bright colored flowers instead (see those cut off tree trunks of my previous plants in there?)  ;) I have to get the old plants pulled out from their roots as well. Once they're gone, I'm going to plant  more winter flowers next to these guys.

I think I'm beginning to like "gardening" a bit (if you can even call it that). I have 3 more flower beds in the backyard that's screaming like "hey, you owe me some flowers!"

Steriods, anyone???

This is by far the most cool looking inhaler I've ever had ;)

Smokin'!!!

This is as close to smoking I could get... ha! I'm at the dr's office with a nebulizer... asthma attack again ;(

I am floored!!!

Love the new floors! Nope, they are not wood floors (I don't have the time and energy to maintain wood floors... no no no... I'd rather spend that time doing something more meaningful)... yeah, they are T.I.L.E.S!!! Wood grain tiles! No worries with scratching, cleaning, maintaining that come with real wood floors! Hah! Don't get me wrong, wood floors are beautiful. But to me, that's all they are, just beautiful ;) Other than that, everything else especially maintenance is a pain...

These wood grain floors are perfect! You can barely see the dirt on them! Drove me nuts everyday with the almost white floor we used to have and the dark floor we have on the living room... so yeah, I'm so happy happy happy!

I am also liking the wider baseboards they put in ;) They are not painted yet so they look bright white.

Now, we have to deal with choosing the paint... oh man, here we go again... I went through choosing the paint last year when we did our bathroom... hard to decide which one is which... David Bromstad, I need you right here, right now!

Pizza at 2am!

Crap, we passed out super tired of all these work going on in our house. It's 2am, I woke up and realized I wasn't able to prep something for kiddo's lunch.

Whipped up something real quick from the almost empty fridge  and here's the best I could come up with - ham, cheese and pineapple pizza on toasted english muffin.

Oh boy. Here goes nothing.

Hurrraaaayyyyy air purifier!

After being sick (sniffles, coughing, sore throat, etc) for the past few months, we finally decided to get air purifiers for each of our rooms (kiddo's and ours).

We clean pretty good in our house on top of the monthly professional cleaning we get... I just don't understand why we keep on getting sick. It only takes one of us to catch something and we all end up getting sick.

Man, I had been asthma free since highschool and last year, it came back! I suspect its all the "renovations" we did on our house last year plus the series of stupid dust storms we had the past few months!

Maaan, the dogs hair were cut short since beginning of spring, air filters are changed regularly. We clean every week, shampoo the carpets every 6 months... uhmmm, what else are we missing?

Well we had enough! Next week, old carpets are all going to go bye-bye! Hopefully, that and these air purifier units would do the trick on top of dusting every inch. We will probably have the a/c ducts professionally cleaned as well.

If these work well, we are going to get another air purifier unit for the living room!

Keeping my fingers crossed!

Is that a Bone???

When I picked up my daughter from school last Friday, she was uberly excited to show me her craft for the day (human bone made out of paper) Lesson plan for the month is all about human body including skeletal system so I had a pretty good idea why they have bones for this week's craft.

She was like "Mommy, look it!" (Showing me the bone paper mache she did).
Me: "Oh wow, what is that???" (I was expecting to hear that it's a bone)
Kiddo: "It's a femur!!!"

Mommy's dumbfounded again!

Then a 4 yr old boy came to me as well...
Boy: "Look, you gotta see my femur too!" (Showed me his bone paper mache as well)
Me: "Wow, that's awesome! Good job!"
Boy: "They are the longest bone in our body and it goes from here to here!" (He pointed at his hip down to his knee)
Me: "Is it really??? Oh wow, that's great!" (Trying to hold my jaw from dropping in astonishment!)

Unbelievable! Wow!!! Toddlers these days know these kinda stuff?

Pizza, anyone?

Toppings include mushrooms, pepperoni, lemons, zucchini, carrots, bell pepper and watermelon! Eeeww, my kiddo is weird, haha ;)

Time to grow up!

Yay, finally, a real grown-up laptop bag for me!!! No more nerdy backpacks to lug at work... no more lousy purses that comes along with the ugly backpack! Woohooo!

With this, I didn't have to bring a separate purse for my "girly" stuff. This doubles as a tote bag as well so even during weekends when I didn't need my work laptop, I could still use it and would still feel fab, mweehheee ;)

Been using it for a couple of days now and I wouldn't want to look back! I love this cutesy. Thanks to the hubby I didn't have to justify too hard to get myself one of these ;) Laveeeeet!!!

Happy Friday... uber busy at work but for some reason I am loving it ;) weirdo.

A monster on my whiteboard...

Since this guy never fails to make me smile whenever I look at my board in my cube, I thought it deserve a space in my blog ;)

He looks pretty weird and funny... reminds me of some anime character...

He was doodled by one of the geekiest (and goofiest) character I've ever met in my entire life who sits next to my cube and who happens to be my boss as well ;)

He probably wouldn't be too happy with me blogging about his "work of art" but hey, I just have to. It's the little things like this that makes life a little bit more interesting ;)

Maybe I should give this monster a name... aha, I'd call him Alexander... you know that lead singer from the band "The Calling"... (Alex Band) with his signature voice that is just too hard to forget!

Nahhh, Monster the Monster sounds better ;)

Ok time to drive back to work now... lunch time is over...

A rocketship!!!

When I saw this strange structure on the freeway after I picked up my daughter from school, I was super excited to ask her what she think it was. We always try to introduce new words to her vocabulary whenever we possibly can so I was going to tell her it looks like a spaceship, with spaceship maybe being her new word for the day.

When I asked her "sweetie, did you see that? Did you know what it is???". She replied with gusto and enthusiam and said "It's a rocketship!!!!!"

Ok, I was dumbfounded... totally didn't expect that ;) At least I know she's learning from school or from the ipad... whichever ;) I left it at that since a rocketship looked more fitting than a spaceship anyways ;)

My daughter never fails to brighten my day ;)

What a cookie can do...

While giving her a bath, I asked my 2.5yr old if she thinks she can spell a few words with her bath letters. First we tried HAT, then RAG, then BUN , then JUMP. I would say the word then say the sound of each letter then she would find the correct letters from the pile and stick them on the wall (I'd say HAT- hah, aaa, tttt and she would understand what I meant). Since she only has one letter of each that she had to borrow the A and U from the previous words that's why BUN is missing the U and HAT is missing the A.

Her motivation??? A cookie for each word she spells correctly.

Yes, she is my cookie monster and I am so proud of her ;)

Natural remedy for coughs...

Lemons, honey, rum... wait, rum??? Really?