The Miller's Place

Some of you may already be aware of the fact that last week we had to take Freddy, one of our cats, to the vet because he was constantly vomiting and lost quite a bit of weight. Well it turns out the prognosis was stomach or pancreatic cancer. We wanted to see if by chance there was a possibility of pancreatitis but Freddy has not gotten any better with medication. Today Michelle has taken Freddy to the vet to be put down to ease his pain. He hasn’t been eating and has been quickly getting worse.

Matthew I think is just under the age of understanding completely. We told him that Freddy has been sick and he has seen all he has gone through. We told him that Mommy was taking him to the doctors and he wouldn’t be coming back home. He was going to go play with Jesus in heaven. Matthew was sad, but I don’t think he fully understood, which is a good thing in my opinion.

Freddy was a unique cat to say the least. Huge, was the first impression you got, between 25 to 30 pounds, Freddy was imposing 🙂 Just as anal retentive and a loner as his owners, Freddy wasn’t as friendly as our other cats. Freddy wanted to be petted when he wanted to be petted. If you started petting Freddy as you were walking by and he was laying there, he would get up and walk away from you. Freddy mostly wanted to be petted after you got out of the shower making sure you were clean before you touched him 🙂 Michelle often called him the Hairy Hemorrhoid as he always wanted attention when you were the busiest, i.e. getting out of the shower, sitting on the toilet, or doing dishes. The funniest thing about Freddy, with his size, and the fact that he always laid on his back, he looked like a furry dog a lot of the times 🙂

Freddy, a great cat who will greatly be missed…

So we had our first real scare today.  Michelle IM’ed me at work that she may need to go to the doctors.  She hadn’t felt Morgan kick most of the day.  The last doctors visit kick count was part of the conversation.  Well she called and they said they wanted to see her so off I ran.  We got to HUP and got in very quickly which I was relieved.  What was odd and disconcerting was that the room we were in was the same room where a doctor told me a little over 4 years ago that I was going to be a dad pretty quickly, 6 weeks early!  All in all everything checked out A OK.  Morgan must just be taking a day off, must be nice 🙂

They had 2 monitors on Michelle listening for kicks and movement and it got pretty loud anytime Morgan moved.  When Matthew and I were allowed in, he was listening and said “Is she talking to me?”.  The longer he listed he started having a conversation with her.  It was the cutest thing.

Well it turned out to be a costly visit, as a studious cop decided to pull us over as we were crossing the state line into Delaware.  No I was not speeding, I saw him twice already and knew he was going to be there, once going to get Michelle and once on the way to the hospital.  So as I passed by he decided to pull behind us, I don’t think he was targeting us but he ended up pulling us over.  Yes I know my tags have been expired for 4 years now, that’s what happens when I move back and forth and back and forth.  Anyway he was nice enough not to tow the car seeing Matthew in the back seat, but he did issue two tickets in excess of 150 bucks.  Yippee..

So all’s well that ends well.  Everyone is doing good.  Time for me to crash as it’s been a long day.  Take care.

No it’s not Rose, although I am watching Titanic right now, but we have decided on a name.  To be honest I think it was decided when Michelle first heard it.  For those that voted on the site, many thanks.  It’s nice to know we are all in agreement 😉  Michelle liked it from the get go, I thought it was good until Jose at work decided to make light a nice little nickname she may be called in the future, and help the soul who does.  I must say I am not thrilled at the fact that it can be used as either male or female but all in all I am pretty happy with it.

With nine weeks to go I present you with the soon to be next Miller…

Morgan Michelle Miller 

So there you have it, enjoy 🙂

Scott

Been a few days or so since I updated everyone on what’s been going on so here goes…

MBS – We had a doctors appointment today for another ultrasound.  All was well.  She is in the 38 percentile as far as growth.  She currently weighs 2 pounds 10 ounces.  Growth rate all was right on track the doctor said.  Another visit and another strike out on ultrasound pics.  I am half tempted to go to one of those 3D places simply because we haven’t gotten any real good shots yet.  Matthew was his usual hilarious self.  I don’t know if I mentioned this in the other posts but when the doctor got over the heart and we could see the heart moving Matthew says “Look baby is talking to me!”  He really thinks the heart beating is her mouth moving 🙂  He was pretty good though in picking things out.  It all went by in a blur to be honest but Matthew picked a lot out.  The miracle of…Technology.  Of course I had to say it right 😉  Let me say that the miracle of life is right up there, but I am still fascinated that technology can peak inside a person’s body and get pictures of a spine wrigglin around in real time.  Just to be able to see the babies head, and spine, and heart beating, it truly is awe inspiring.

The Move –  Most of the last few updates have been about our move.  If you are oblivious or missed out, we relocated to Newark, DE as we wait for our house to sell.  The move itself went very well.  We have found a few things that didn’t make it but all in all, it went well.  Today was recycling day so last night I killed myself getting all the empty boxes out of the house 🙂  I was even amazed at how much more room there was.  Outside of the freezing cold first floor and the lack of DirecTV, I think we both are very happy with the place.

The Thiers – Just wanted to give a quick congrats the Angie and the Thiers family on the birth of Chandler James Thier.  He was born 3:30pm on Saturday March 1st.  He weighed 8lbs and 11oz and was 21 inches long.  Just wanted to pat myself on the back as I guessed the weight exactly and was a tenth of an inch off of the length, not too shabby I say 🙂  Congrats guys and best wishes!

Not much else to say at this point.  Think I will catch a TiVo’ed show while Matthew and Michelle nap before tackling some more boxes.  Hope everyone is doing well!

Love, Scott, Michelle, Matthew, and MBS!

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Listening to: Linkin Park – The Little Things Give You Away
via FoxyTunes

Good grief, it is amazing how one family can accumulate so much junk…Well The movers finished unloading the truck yesterday about 7:30-8:00 and I got a couple of hours of unpacking done.  Living room is “situated”, Michelle did 2 boxes in the kitchen 😉 and I maneuvered our bedroom so it’s walkable.  Current project for today is my office, I have to get my desk and PC up and after that, we’ll see where it goes.  Two additional things to be done today are go back to Maryland and clean up some in case some one actually decides to look at the house we’re still trying to sell 🙂  We also need to go back to unload some of the fridge, pick up the cats, and take the rent car back.  Last thing for the day is a new entertainment center.  Living room one barely made it through the last move, in actuality it didn’t to a degree until I put numerous brackets on it to hold it together 🙂

One issue we had was DirecTV.  The installer came out, on the early side for once, but it quickly went bad from there.  The guy was rude to begin with and immediately I knew he didn’t want to work at all.  Excuse after excuse, and after a phone call to his supervisor, I started telling him how the install was going to work 🙂  Well he went straight out to his van, minivan that is, not work van, and call a few more people.  Finally he came in and said well I don’t have a pole to go in the ground so I am going to go back and get one and bring someone else back to help with the job. Well it wasn’t too much longer we got a call back from his dispatch saying they were going to reschedule.  Aaarrgghh, so now no TV till Sunday morning supposedly, but we’ll see.  All I have to say is it better not be the same guy.  Comcast arrived late for the internet install and couldn’t get my modem/router to work, but their modem worked of course so I am stuck with a Comcast modem for now and no wireless internet in the house.  That I will work on once a few other things are done.

So that’s where we are at.  The neighborhood is really quiet. Even the other townhouses we didn’t hear anyone at all last night, which is great.  Seems to be plenty of kids around because when 3:30 hit or so a mad rush of them came down the street 🙂  I’m really liking it here so far, now just to get my office and my living room put together so I can take a break and enjoy myself 🙂  Cya.

Scott