I bit it big time!

Before the story even starts let's get all the jokes out of the way. Cat got my tongue? Tongue tied? Smashmouth... you get the idea! I had a tongue-related boo boo!

So let me just tell you that when people say the tongue is the fastest healing part of your body, they are not kidding! I can testify to this since at this time last night I had a gaping hole in my tongue, and now I am able to fully speak again without a lisp! The story is this...
I'm at the computer checking my email yesterday afternoon while Roo and Dallas are (I thought!) playing in her room right next to me. I hear the front door open and figured it was Ryan coming home, so I jump up to greet him *yes, I am the perfect housewife, aren't I?*... I make it to the door just in time to see Ryleigh heading out it. I grab her on the front porch and stick her back in the house, but Dallas had escaped and was headed into traffic. So I dash into the street in front of two cars and catch her before she's squashed! No good deed goes unpunished, so as I'm yanking her back to my house by her collar I get tangled up in her, the curb, and my own natural grace and fall straight down onto my chin. It's kinda blurry after that but I soon realize I'm standing over the sink spitting lots of blood and Ryan is still at work! I call my friend Lauren who lives a few blocks away, and bless her heart, she is there within minutes to help me determine that I have not in fact lost any teeth (woohoo!) just bitten clean through my tongue! UGH!!!! It hurt soooo badly! I spent all night with a washcloth in my mouth to stop the bleeding, and when I woke up, the hole was closed but still tender. All day today no one could understand a word I was saying, and Ryan commented on my overbite b/c of the akward way I was holding my mouth so my injured tongue would not snag on my teeth! So amazingly enough, by now my tongue is mostly healed!! Which has led me to do further investigation and discover that I chipped two teeth and cannot open my mouth wide enough to brush my teeth without wanting to cry! Fabulous! It looks like I will be headed to the dentist next week! Anywhooo... the moral of the story is I WILL LOCK MY DOORS now so that I don't have any escapees, and in the future of the durn dog gets out again she is just gonna have to find her own way back home, or suffer the fate of evolution - the dumb ones get squashed!

in other news, Ryleigh gets funnier every day! The other night I was trying to pass Ryan some oreos and he couldn't reach, so I handed two to Ryleigh and told her to bring them to him. Without missing a beat, our clever little girl put one behind her back and held the other one out to her Daddy saying sweetly and cheerfully "hereya go!"

I know I still haven't posted the rest of the zoo pics yet, but just be ptient, they are really good, and I'll get around to them here soon, I promise! I just got another Jan Lancaster book today (funniest author in the world!!!) and I hear it calling to me to go read in a bubble bath! BYE!