Snow!

It dumped a pile of snow on us on Sunday and Faelyn decided she wanted to make a snowman on Monday evening. Maddox did not want to go out and Murphy and I stayed in so she built it all by herself.

She had me come out for a minute to lift the middle ball onto the bottom ball because it was too heavy for her. I came in and got a hat and put on at her request. Everything else she did on her own, with no direction or tips on how to carry it out.

You're in a hole.
You're there for years, stuck.
You are constantly trying to climb out,
but you're only making it wider and wider.
Pretty soon everything outside of your hole is out of reach.
Out of sight.
You're completely alone.

Updates

On Tuesday, Faye had appointments with audiology and the ENT. They determined that she has the maximum amount of conductive hearing loss and that her ear drum is floppy, but her inner ear, hearing organ, nerve is perfectly fine. They do not know why she has hearing loss so they wanted to start with a CT Scan and if that doesn't show anything, they'll want to do an exploratory surgery. I do not want her to have surgery, but if they find something with the CT Scan that can be fixed, they may need to do surgery anyways. If they do not find anything or it is something that cannot be fixed, she'll have a hearing aid in that ear. She had her CT Scan yesterday and we should get results back on Monday.

Murphy also had an appointment on Tuesday. His 6mo check up, at 7mo. We're a month off! He is perfect. At an 8-9mo level, developmentally. He got his DTaP and he is 17lbs 1oz and 28". Big little guy!

Maddox is currently at a sleepover! He attempted one about two weeks ago and lasted about 45min. This time it was a birthday party. I talked to his friends mom before hand and planned to play it by ear. They went to McD for dinner and back to his friends house for cake and to play. We told him he could call at anytime if he wanted to be picked up and it's 11pm and we haven't heard from him. It's probably safe to say he is spending the night!

Vegan Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies!

1 1/4 Cup Unbleached Flour
3/4 Cup Ground Rolled Oats (or instant or minute oats)
1 tsp Cream of Tartar & 1/2 tsp Baking Soda (or 2 tsp Baking Powder)
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2-1 Cup Enjoy Life vegan Mini Chocolate Chips

1/2 Cup Earth Balance vegan Butter (or any kind of oil)
1 Cup Raw Turbinado Sugar

1/4 Cup Water
1 tsp Vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix top dry ingredients.
Blend sugar and butter.
Add water and vanilla to sugar and butter.
Mix wet and dry together.

On two cookies sheets, form 1 inch dough balls. I like to press them down like patties, that way they spread out and look like flat cookies and now cookie hills.

Put both cookie sheets in oven for 6 minutes.

Switch racks (bottom sheet to top rack, top sheet to bottom rack) and bake 5 more minutes.

Faelyn's Artwork

Last year, the extent of Faye's art was markers or paint scribbled on paper. Just swirling circles or back and forth scribbling. What you'd expect from a two year old and I always grumbled about it. Why does this child not know how to make a single picture?! Why does she insist on making scribbles and thinking her scribbles are lovely pictures?! Of course I always commented on her great use of colors and asked her to explain what was going on in her pictures, but I always thought what the heck is going on in her head?!

This year, every single time she brings home a new piece of free time artwork, she bowls me away. She usually sticks with a weekly trend and these are from the past couple weeks.

Pictures are going to be at the top, because that's how they post for some reason (posting via iPhone!)

First, at home, she drew a couple pictures of me with a flower. This was the first one. The flower had roots, I had a heart in my chest.

The second, she came home with this beautiful picture of me. She made two that week. Me, with brown hair and eyes (like I have), a bright red heart in my chest, and long, lovely eyelashes!

The third, and this one completely blew me out of the water... Yellow mountains and hills, a bird flying in the sky, and a yellow sun with red in it, because it was getting hotter!

And last, the drawing she brought home for me today (all folded up and in an envelope). This is a mommy whale. There is a baby whale on the mommies back (she's carrying her baby) and the baby has a spout coming up from her blowhole!

I worry about her academics ALL. THE. TIME. but I think her art work is brilliant! She will be going to Kindergarten Prep this next school year instead of Kindergarten. She is no where near being ready for Kindergarten, academically...

I'm still not convinced its just her age or a lack of interest, but we'll see what happens with the rest of this school year and this summer.

Keri

Can't. Stop. Laughing.

Faye to Maddox:  Freeze your arms, freeze your legs, freeze your mouth, freeze your arms, freeze your vagina. Freeze all of your body. 

Keri

Two Things

Faelyn wants to invite her extended family over for a party. With cake and lots of punch. 

Faelyn wants to have a slumber party. A spa day slumber party. She asked her daddy to get pickle slices because that's what you put on your eyes for a spa day. 

Keri

01.16.2013

Maddox doing a ton better. He'll be ready for school tomorrow. He's almost 100% better feeling, still a little tired, a little worn done, still has a decreased appetite. His eye looks a ton better. Still puffy and red, but not anywhere near what it was.

I was talking to one of Faye's preschool friends mom. I said around Madd's eye was infected and she said "oh yeah, did it get all red and puffy?" Yeah, how'd you know?! Apparently she's an ER nurse! I had no idea! Her husband is a EMS and I knew that, but had no clue she worked at the hospital too!

Keri

Eye Infection

Maddox had a lot of cheek pain on Sunday night, was up most of the night and woke up on Monday with a swollen eye (bottom lid and up around the inside corner) and a 102 fever.

He stayed home and laid on the couch all day, sleeping on and off. This morning his eye did not look any better so I had Clayton bring him into the minute clinic. They were clueless and said to go to urgent care. I'm not a big fan, so I called our pediatrician and got an appointment for this evening.

He has an infection around his eye. Not in his eye or in the socket, fortunately. He started antibiotics tonight and hopefully he'll be better by Thursday or he'll have to go in for IV antibiotics.

More to Blog , Less to Facebook

I keep thinking about how I copied and pasted Facebook statuses of the kids saying a few years back and that I need to do that again to catch up. It's so easy to lose everything on Facebook, but why didn't I think to post a blog a day? It doesn't need to be long and in depth. I take at least one picture on my phone a day (I also was going to take a picture a day on my DSLR, what happened to that?!), so why not post at least one thing a day?

Maddox is sick today. He had pain in his right cheek all last night. A little today, but he's got a moderate fever and has been feeling miserable all day. Poor kid. No school today, no school tomorrow. Hopefully he'll be feeling better tomorrow.

Pictures are last night with his rosey cheeks, asleep on dads lap after not being able to get to bed. And then today, with his puffy eye. Not sure what that's about. It's on the same side as the cheek that hurt...

Keri