I thought I would have oodles of photos since I haven’t updated in 2 weeks, but we’ve had 2 super normal, laid back weeks. The boys are enjoying school and swim team. I think I can say we’ve fully adjusted to our new school-year routine.
Last weekend, the boys spent the night at Grandma Debbie’s on Friday night and then had a playdate with new school friends on Sunday.
I think if every week was like the last 2, I probably couldn’t find things to regularly write about. But I am also happy with the low key nature of the last few weeks!
But it couldn’t all be low key, so Friday morning, in the middle of the hustle and bustle of eating breakfast, getting kids ready, packing lunches and trying to get everyone out the door, I looked down to see a large puddle of blood on the floor. “Everyone freeze” I shouted, trying to figure out which kid/dog/me? was bleeding. Hudson. Blood- gushing out of his bottom. Ok….. He was happily running around, being his normal obnoxious self, seemingly oblivious to the fact that he was leaving puddles of blood all over the floor. I managed to wrestle him into a choke hold to clean him up and try to access what was happening. It appeared to be pretty swollen next to his butt hole and gushing blood.
I called the vet who said it sounded like a ruptured anal gland. I quickly googled while still on the phone and once I confirmed it wasn’t life threatening, I calmed down a bit. The boys went to school. Hudson continued to bleed all over the floor until we got into my van (where he bled all over that floor) and we went to the vet.
He had not had any issues, showed no signs of discomfort, and we’ve never had any problems before. Apparently anal glands can just rupture. Great. So there’s nothing we did to cause it and nothing I could have done to prevent it. The vet did an antibiotic infusion into the gland and now he has 2 weeks of antibiotics. He appears to still feel 100% fine and the vet was very casual about the whole thing. So… I guess we’re fine after a whirlwind of bloody excitement on a Friday morning.
Sunday was a day of excitement as it was the first (of several) celebrations for Xander’s birthday! My tiny little baby is 8 years old!! How did that happen?!
Xander’s bestie from MPA is Sammy. We’ve been trying to schedule a playdate for weeks and I sent a bunch of dates to his mom. Sunday was the day that worked best. I realized it was the day before Xander’s birthday and that he wasn’t overly excited about a birthday party this year because he is still getting to know the kids in his class. So we decided to turn the playdate into a birthday celebration and so Nate and I took the boys to Mall of America for a day of rides and fun.
Xander was thrilled to have time with his dear friend. They were just glowing with happiness and having the cutest conversations. They rode ride after ride and ran all around. They were excited and happy and it was a perfect day. We stopped for a pizza break and later for an ice cream break, but really, they rode rides most of the day! We have more celebrating to do this week, but kick-off to being 8 years old was a huge success.
