Nikita didn't have the best week. The reason for this is her back right leg doesn't support her anymore. She can walk or maybe it is more like a wobble. She is having trouble pulling herself up and staying up to go to the bathroom. So to help her we have put more rugs and mats around the house. We give her a little boost when she needs to get up. We borrowed one of mum's coworker's doggie sling to help Nikita use the restroom. Now every time she goes out mum or dad are with her. She has improved some since the first time her right leg failed her. She can now turn around much easier. She is also on a few more medicines. She is even becoming playful again. She was play bowing outside tonight. She still enjoys dinner time! I think mum is spoiling her more than ever.
The cozy corner has returned, better than ever. I say that because I've now added extra padding to make it even cozier. Mum has even hung out in it, too. Of course we still have to take precautions and protect it from hurricane Hoover. He has been allowed in a few times, but always under close supervision. We don't want another incident where hurricane Hoover destroys the fort with his big body. The cozy corner gets to stay up until school starts!!!!
I was over at a friend's house today. I was able to eat my first seafood boil. It was delicious! I definitely want to have it again.Then something not so pleasant happened. We were playing soccer and I kicked the ball into the neighbor's yard. When I went to kick it out, I felt a pain in my arm. I thought it was a bee or wasp so I ran off. My friend went to get his mom. When I checked my arm, I saw a wasp stuck in my sleeve trying to escape. I panicked and attacked my arm trying to get it off. Then everyone sprinted away. Afterwards, we avoided that part of the neighbor's yard. I want to thank my friend's mom for putting ice on my arm. It was all okay because we finished off the day with s'mores. When I got home, it was starting to hurt again. I wanted to help take the dogs for a walk so we wrapped an ice pack around my arm and off we went. It was nice because I stayed cool on the walk.
Mum and I had an exciting adventure on Friday. Maybe a little too exciting at one point. For anyone that doesn't know what we did, we rode the city bus. It was a new experience. Everything started off fine. We were picked up close to our house. We had to bus hop to get to mum's work. Unfortunately, our first drop off was next to an adult store. I was thinking this wasn't the best place to be waiting for a bus. We finally got to mum's office about an hour after we left our house. It is normally about a five minute drive.
After a few hours at work, we went to our next bus stop. Mum didn't want to miss the bus so we arrived about 20 minutes early. To past time we played silly games. The bus finally arrived and we rode it through campus and got dropped off by the IU Union. Unfortunately, we missed the next bus. Mum saw it, but she realized too late it was the bus we should have boarded. So, we decided to mall walk to the transit center. This is where it gets exciting. We took our next bus to the animal shelter. Along the way we went up and down several streets. As we got closer to the shelter, mum pulled the cord to alert the bus driver we wanted off at the next stop. As we were getting up, the bus shook pretty hard. It caused mum to stumble and I fell back into my seat. At first we thought the bus driver had taken his foot off the brake, but we realized as we stepped off the bus a car had ran
into the bus! The bus didn't look look damaged, but the car took a beating.
After all that excitement, we made it to the animal shelter. We met some wonderful dogs and cats. One of the awesome dogs we met was Marley. Marley is a shepherd/pyrenees mix about 11 months old. She is a shy girl. Hopefully she will find a good home that will take good care of her.
I have to confess, we decided to call dad to give us a ride to the Chocolate Moose. We had attracted to much attention on the bus and wanted to lay low for a bit. After a delicious ice cream sandwich, I was feeling quite good again. We were going to finish our day with a bus ride home. We hung out at the transit center for several minutes before the bus arrived. We went all through campus again and finally ended up at our home base. I will remember this adventure for the rest of my life and tell my kids about it.
I told you in the last blog I would be going to the IU soccer camp. IU soccer camp was a blast! I must say the food there was scrumptious! I was able to have bacon everyday! Mum was horrified when she heard that. Of course IU soccer camp isn't about the food, it's about the soccer...and playing cards. It was great fun playing soccer with some of my teammates. In our off time, it was great fun playing cards with them, too. It was all topped off with world cup tourney. My team pulled a three seed upset over the number one seed to win the championship. But really, it was all just for fun and we had a great time playing in the mud. I'm definitely doing IU soccer camp again.
We are the champions! I'm glad to say we are the new women's FIFA World Cup champions. Mum missed the first two goals on her way home. Then somehow she missed the third. She thought it would be awhile before something else happened so she went to take care of Nikita, suddenly she heard, "GOOOOOOAAAALLLLL!" Mum had missed another goal. Hoover enjoyed parts of the game, so much so he put his face right up to the TV. Nikita and Lizzie didn't seem too interested, they slept through the game.
I discovered something startling today. Looking at different web sites, I've learned the women were paid around $2 million dollars for winning the World Cup. The U.S. men got at least $8 million for reaching the round of 16 last year. Each of the 32 men's teams got $1.5 million just for participating. That is a pretty shocking pay difference.
In other soccer related news, Cutters had a parade float for the Fourth of July. They wanted some players to dribble and juggle by the float. Mum was elected to ride the float because she has a bad knee. We got there early. It was fun juggling in the parade. However, none of us were able to see dad sitting in the crowd. I was juggling so I couldn't always look at the crowd. Mum did not have an excuse. Dad got a picture of her waving at the camera. She claims she didn't see him.
I have another camp to look forward to, it's the IU men's soccer overnight camp. Last year I had a great time. I'm looking forward to playing some soccer and soccer tennis. I know the food will be better than at Franklin College. You can look forward to hearing about IU's food in the next blog. Also, we will be having our own World Cup next Sunday. Hopefully I won't lose my ball this time. At least I do get a new ball at camp.
Nikita didn't have the best week. The reason for this is her back right leg doesn't support her anymore. She can walk or maybe it is more like a wobble. She is having trouble pulling herself up and staying up to go to the bathroom. So to help her we have put more rugs and mats around the house. We give her a little boost when she needs to get up. We borrowed one of mum's coworker's doggie sling to help Nikita use the restroom. Now every time she goes out mum or dad are with her. She has improved some since the first time her right leg failed her. She can now turn around much easier. She is also on a few more medicines. She is even becoming playful again. She was play bowing outside tonight. She still enjoys dinner time! I think mum is spoiling her more than ever.
The cozy corner has returned, better than ever. I say that because I've now added extra padding to make it even cozier. Mum has even hung out in it, too. Of course we still have to take precautions and protect it from hurricane Hoover. He has been allowed in a few times, but always under close supervision. We don't want another incident where hurricane Hoover destroys the fort with his big body. The cozy corner gets to stay up until school starts!!!! 
