Merry Christmas

I hope you all had a very merry Christmas! We spent this Christmas in Minnesota with my family. We got to see my new nephew, Benjamin. He is so tiny. My dad calls him "elf". When I asked Ky what the baby's name was she replied, "elf." On Christmas we went to church. Casey and Ky had to be good at church or else they couldn't open presents. They were both incredible! They both slept but that still counted as being good! They got a ton of presents and then we headed to my aunt's house. It was good seeing all my relatives. Grandpa is 93 so I try to see him whenever I go to Minnesota.

On our way home from Minnesota we decided to go to Josh's grandma's house. Granny was having people over on Sunday and his cousin from Arizona was in town with the new baby. It was a good thing we went. Granny got a picture with all her great-grandbabies!

Now we're home for a few days. We sent Casey down with Mema and we're heading down south tomorrow. We were going to go today but decided to wait for Laura so we didn't have to drive two cars down. I'll be happy when all this traveling is over!

I hope you all have a Happy New Year! We have nothing planned. Maybe Josh will surprise me with something!

Let it snow!

We are enjoying our third snowfall in a week here. It conveniently snows when Josh is at work or out of town so the shovel and I have become close friends! Today I only shoveled 1/2 of the driveway. When they plow the laundromat parking lot they push the snow across our driveway into our front yard. I'll gladly have a huge pile of snow in the front yard if it keeps me from having to shovel 1/2 the drive way. The kids enjoy playing in the snow but we have yet to build a snowman. I thought we'd be able to today but the snow will not roll. I did find that my jogging stroller is great in the snow! Dory got away from me and we had to chase her down. Not an easy thing to do with a 2 year old! I got the stroller out from the garage and off we went! Now we try to take Dory on a walk if it's not too cold out!


Our decor

The new friends

My little helpers


Funny story (Or at least it is to me): Casey brings toys into the bathroom with him. Totally grosses me out! I tell them not to bring toys into the bathroom but they don't listen. Today Casey brought some of his Star Wars legos (he has some sets that build ships) in to play with while he pooped. I'm on the computer right outside the door and Casey starts crying. I go in to see what's wrong and he dropped the helmet to his guy right next to his little turds. I'm not putting my hand in there so I told him if he wanted it he had to get it. I know, I'm up for mom of the year! Even if he did get it I would have to soak it in bleach. YUCK! I tried, not hard, to get it out with the toilet brush but no luck. So we flushed it. Casey started sobbing. He told Kylin, "Nothing can help it. I lost something really special!" Poor boy. Maybe he'll listen to me now when I tell him to not bring toys in the bathroom!

Another update

Kylin saw both her neurologist and urologist the past few weeks. Ky's reflux has not improved but they don't want to do surgery so that means she has to stay on the antibiotics. I'm not thrilled with that but once she's done with this potty training crap (not going as well as I'd like) we can take he off. If she ends up with an UTI they will do the surgery. I don't like that it has not improved at all but at least it's not bad enough to have to do surgery right away!

Kylin's neurologist thinks she's doing much better but still not at 100%. They did blood work and wanted to get a urine sample. Do you know how hard it is to try to get a urine sample from a two year old girl? We sat on that lab toilet for 20 minutes. She kept telling me that she had to go so there she sat with me holding the pee cup under her. We got to take the cup home. A week later we still do not have a pee sample. The neurologist scheduled a CT scan (pretty much of her whole body) in Jan. Hopefully we won't have to put her through that!

Ky is still going to therapy twice a week. She's meeting her goals so that's good! She still shakes a little when she gets tired but for the most part she's almost back to normal (if that's even possible). She still throws a mean fit but I can usually distract her long enough to get her thinking about something else. Speech therapy is not going that great. Some days she'll copy her therapist and others she is in her own world. We still haven't gotten a bill from therapy. Hopefully insurance is covering it!

We got snow here. We've been out playing in it. I need to find Kylin longer mittens. Every time we come in her poor hands are so red! I'll feel super bad when she gets frost bite. I'll have to take a pic of our house. We decorated this year!


Even princesses need to go potty


Princess Ky


My November rose!


Happy Halloween


Ky


Casey's star of the week!