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I think 5 months without a post deserves a catch up!

Ok, so I've become totally upside down and crazy in the washing machine of life since my last post! Life has been marching swiftly as you'd expect. After five months, I thought I'd better update, though I don't expect anybody to even remember this blog to see it! lol

BIG update for us, hubby got a new job! We're moving NORTH, way NORTH! :) Never lived any more than 60 miles from where we are now so a huge change for us! We're excited, overwhelmed and READY! Hubby has been gone 6 weeks already, he had to go asap to get started for his job. We had to stay back to get the house and ourselves ready. We did send a great majority of our things with him so we've been living out of partially packed boxes and selling everything too big to take with us for the last six weeks, enough to drive one insane!!

With most of the clothing already sent, gasp, Kaylee only has enough here to fit in a box on top of the dryer, this has greatly taken a toll on her love of changing clothes as many times a day as she can get away with it. She still gets home from school every day and puts her 'lounging' clothes (aka pj's, princess dresses, etc) on. I think she has enough shoes to start her own shoe store and she tries to wear her entire inventory on a daily basis as well. She can clomp with the best of them in her 'heels'! lol

Everyone has been doing great though, school has been going great for all three this year. Kaylee is using two word sentences!!!! We're so proud!!! She's come a long way from the little girl that came home 19 months ago with no language abilities. She's worked so hard and had some excellent speech therapists through the school system. She also had tubes put in her ears this January. Outsiders can usually only pick up a word or two of what she's saying, of course we understand many many more. She's also using sign language when she can't get her point across, which helps her and us. She's also learning her colors, doing some basic counting and recognizes K's like their going out of style, I contantly hear 'my name, my name!!' :) She loves to color and write these days. She draws people all the time and tons of circles in a line to replace the letters she's just not ready for yet.

Kaylee is an avid bike rider, loves jewelry of all kinds, you name it. Total girly girl but she can goes as many rounds with her brothers as necessary to get what she wants! lol

I'll try to add some pics from the last few months :)

Kaylee loves her tumbling outfit!

Kaylee loves her leotard but has to add her own style of her high heel shoes! lol We had to giggle and grad the camera of course!

Wii

I know of another great adoption fundraiser! Please enter for a chance to win a Wii and help a family! :)

Chance to win a brand new Wii System with the Wii Sports package (5 games),one controller, and one nunchuk. THEN there's an ADDITIONAL game pack,Wii Play, with NINE more games, and an EXTRA controller! A total of 14games complete with two controllers. Raffle ends Dec. 10. Chances are $2.50 each or 5 chances for only $10.

http://twochinadolls.blogspot.com/

Brighton

This is Brighton, she's a little girl close to my heart. I was advocating for this little girl on Until All Have Homes. I can't tell you the ache in my heart as I watched her little face, continuing for months on our site without a family. I rejoiced upon finding out a family I know were the ones to see her as their daughter. This family and this little girl mean a lot to me. It would mean so much to me if you could find it in your heart to visit this site and enter the drawing (the proceeds going to the family's adoption funds).

Here's the site: http://www.thegiftofachild.com/pursedrawing.html

HALLOWEEN 2008

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Ohhhh my gosh, awful morning!!!

OHHHHH my gosh, is it Friday the 13th and nobody told me???? My morning has been awful! Here's a run-down:

1:15 am-wake up to Kaylee screaming from the other side of the house, she's sitting in her hallway and won't come to my room until I come get her, she wakes everyone in the house up, including the puppy

1:15-4:00 am-the dog screams, howls and barks because he's now awake, I try to ignore him thinking he's just wanting out of his crate

4:00 am-realize dog was not just screaming to play, he's pottyed in his crate and has slung it all over himself, the wall, the floor and even the door behind him in his attempts to get away from it

4:05 am-after pulling his crate and his 30 lb self to the back door, he gets around me and walks a little bit in the kitchen and the living room with his soiled paws, I spend ten or so minutes scrubbing to clean that up

6:00 am-get up to get Jaycen up for school, all goes well in this one

6:30 am-Kaylee wakes up as soon as I get back in the house from taking Jaycen to the bus stop

6:30-7:20 am-Kaylee screams big toddler tantrums for a variety of reasons, she didn't want me to walk out of the bathroom while she's finishing up, doesn't want milk, pours out her milk and expects a new drink, yada yada yada

7:20 am-Kaylee continues to throw huge fit when it's time to get in the car, I finally lose patience of her throwing her arms around while I try to fasten her in the car, go back in the house, wake hubby up, tell him she's being punished by not getting to go with us, he'll have to wake up and watch her

7:20-7:40 am-take two older kids to school, our 3 year old dog rides with us, like every day

7:40 am-get home, notice carseat is wet, chalk it up to dog licking car seat again

8:00-8:30 am-hubby prepares and gives puppy a bath, I wash down newly found walls, door and floor

8:40 am-newly washed puppy jumping all over the place, stealing Kaylee's clothes as she tries to get ready, making Kaylee scream again, somehow even leaving a giant wet paw print on my butt

8:45 am-puppy has rewarded us for his bath by peeing on the floor!!

8:55 am-get in the car to put Kaylee in car seat, she immediately jumps back up, dog has not licked car seat, dog has peed in car seat!!!! of course this has never happened until this morning!

8:56 am-run in house to get towel for her to sit on and grab Resolve carpet cleaner

8:58 am-get call from school, Jaycen throwing up, have to pick him up

9:15 am-get back home and give Jaycen (6 years old) anti-nauseous meds, while making up make-believe story about what viruses are and how you catch them (by the way, they like cute people and jump on them when they see them, then they have a party in your body, which makes you throw up)

9:55 am-jump in car to go get my flu shot, scheduled for 10:10 am (with appt. slip saying I have to give 24 hour notice to cancel and I can't cancel because I to have it now since I still have 13 days before surgery), backing out of driveway 6 year old starts throwing up, I jerk backwards to help him get sick in the garbage bag we took along, just in case; foot slips off brake, foot struggles to find brake but only finds gas petal, pushing us backwards from the driveway at what had to be 30 mph, foot finally finds brake half way in street; vomit has been projectiled to front seat now, all over mom, 6 year old, car seat, car floor, mom's purse in front seat.....

9:56-10:07 am-wash car up, again using Resolve

10:07 am-call pharmacy to say I can't be there in three minutes, informed today they have walk-ins as well and I can come any time....

Think it would be safe to hide in bed the rest of the day???