I am up late tonight, and I am actually happy to be able to do it. *chuckles* Why? Because I can sleep in tomorrow morning. lol

I have the next three days off from babysitting, so combined with the weekend, it feels as though I am beginning a vacation. *laughs* It will be a working vacation though, because I have a lot of housework to catch up on. It is so hard for me to get some chores done during the day, because I just can't trust DD not to do anything devious to the baby while I am out of the room. It isn't that she tries to hurt him or anything, but that she wants to "mommy" him too much. She may just accidentally hurt him, while trying to take care of him. Ok, and I did catch her trying to write on him with a pen. lol

So, my day is going to be full tomorrow. I will need to put in some computer time, to tie up some loose ends. Then, I am off to scrub sights that have not been scrubbed for about 3 weeks. Sounds scary, eh? I think so. I've wiped some things down, in passing, but haven't done the deep cleaning that needs to be done. I think that my cloth shower curtain is starting to smell a little of mildew....

One of my projects for this week is to piece together at least two weeks worth of unit studies for DD. She begins school on the 12th of September, so I need to get myself in gear. I am looking to put together simple studies, but things that are interesting enough to keep her attention.

Oh, so I didn't tell you that DH shaved the dog. lol Yup, he took our hair clippers, and he shaved the dog down to a #2. It isn't bad looking, except for his tail. His poor little tail looks kind of funny, and I think that I may try and touch it up tomorrow. It did make it a lot easier to apply his flea medicine for this month though. *chuckles* I can't fuss at DH too much though, because I shaved my dog when I was a teenager, and he was a full-bred collie. It did turn out to be a good thing though, because we noticed how tiny he was getting, and we took him to the vet. He was diagnosed with cancer, and died shortly thereafter. Boy, but that turned things gloomy. Anyway, Skip is usually a short-haired dog anyway, so it isn't like he's gone completely back to puppyhood. lol

Day 5

There seems to be no change in Pokie.


Day 6

Oh my goodness. Last night, Pokie seemed to be the same. Today though, things have changed completely. Pokie now looks shorter, for some reason. His last half of segments seem to have fused together to form one segment. Most startling, Pokie has turned dark brown. We haven't been able to spot his legs, and do not know if they are still intact. From time to time, Pokie wiggles around within his skin, and swells a bit, before relaxing and going still.

To be honest, he looks kind of........gross. lol

Day 3

Pokie is still moving around today, though I'm not sure how he manages. Through the night, Pokie has reinforced the walls of his cocoon, making them thicker. They are now about 1/4 in. thick, for as well as I can guess, based on the section attached to the peanut butter jar. He has lost almost all of his remaining hair, and has only a couple little hairs left.


Day 4

Pokie was doing a lot of wiggling around last night, but he has calmed down now. He hasn't moved in quite a while. It looks as though he might have shed the last remaining hairs that he had. It does not appear that he was doing any more building on the cocoon, so I can only assume that that job is completed. Now, I guess we wait and see what happens.