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As I went to bed last night, I had a feeling in the back of my throat. It's on the left side back of my throat. And it was kind of ouchie. Uh-oh, I thought. Yeah, uh-oh. I woke up several times during the night with a progressively ouchier ouchie back left side of my throat. And when I was finally awakened by my multiple alarms (one random international phone call that I definitely chose to ignore, the alarm clock playing some news, weather, and traffic during the Z102 morning show, and one welcome text from my favorite alarm clock of all -- who was already at work before eight this morning!), I had a full-blown sore throat. I hate sore throats. I think I can take any kind of sickness (well, except for throwing up... I HATE that) better than a sore throat. I think it's because I love food so much. If anything detracts from the joy I get from my three meals and multiple snacks per day, I'm pissed.

Anyway, so I battled the icky sore throat with a full glass of vitamin C (aka orange juice) and a swig of liquid Dayquil. It's been a while since I've taken Dayquil. I know there have been times in my life when I've sworn by it. The stuff is magic. And just like any too-good-to-be-true spell, there's a crash at the end. Dayquil works for five hours almost exactly in my body. It also has some not-so-fun side effects. But it keeps my throat from hurting. So I'll take the float-y my-head's-on-a-balloon-string feeling at the beginning and end of the five hours. It seriously is amazing how accurately the Dayquil and my body can measure time. I took the first dose a few minutes after 8 am, the 2nd at 1:06 pm, and the 3rd at 6:11 pm. A few minutes ago (around 10:47 pm actually), I decided I'd had enough for the day and came to bed. I do NOT like the float-y feeling when I'm trying to go to sleep, though, so I switched to Nyquil... which, oddly, doesn't have much of an effect at all on me (except, HOPEFULLY, blocking the sore throat). Thinking that I'd eventually crash with the promised drowsiness, I sat down with K&C to await sweet rest. They had other plans, though; and the Nyquil didn't seem to mind. So, we played for a good 45 minutes. Well, for most of it, they played, and I snapped pics. I know. I'm addicted. What else is new? Anyway, I'll try not to overwhelm you. But I enjoyed some continuous snap action.

Silly tongue-sticker-outer:

This one makes me laugh because their mouths are soooo wide open:

I think it's freakin' hilarious when Coop shows me his bottom teeth. He's so silly:

Then I decided it was time for a little howling... which Cooper always greets with a "Really?":

Then, an "Okay, YES":

By that time, Kona wanted in on the fun:

If you've ever been privy to one of those howling sessions, you know the decibel level gets pretty high pretty quickly... so we had to put a stop to that with the tennis ball. I love, love, love, love, love rolling it under the bed so Coop has to crawl in after it: