Cute pic of Guinness!  Did he get some quality trick or treating in last October?

Hi Hannah, unfortunately the old themes are gone with the old system, sorry :(

Wow, 6 A+ is wonderful! Great job!
Thanksgiving was good but a little crazy with all the little kids. My kids are the oldest, but then there are 7 kids age 9 and under that belong to my sisters!

We found out in late August that Sidney has really bad hip dysplasia. This means his hip sockets didn't form correctly and the knob at the top of his leg bone does not fit correctly in his hip joint. It was making walking difficult for him because the leg bone was rubbing against the hip bone, which you might imagine would hurt a lot! We didn't know about it until one night his leg bone popped right out of the socket, got dislocated and poor Sidney was in crazy pain. We took him to the vet next day, they did xrays and told us about the problem. They said the best thing to do was this surgery on the worse of the 2 hip sockets (the one where the leg bone popped out). In the surgery, they cut off the highest part of the leg bone, the part that rubs against his hip. Then the hip is not a ball-and-socket joint anymore, but something they call a floating joint. When it first dislocated he could not set is foot down at all, but now he walks and runs on it normally again.

Hey Hannah, it's been ages since I've talked to you! How have you been? How's school? What grade are you in now? I bet Lil' Guinness isn't so little anymore.
Thanks , I'm so glad you like Sidney's photo. WE took that one for fun, but I liked it so much I decided to submit it. Did you know Sidney had surgery? OH, he's a boy, by the way ;-)