A lot has happened since February 2012. Miss Kaelyn turned 2 at her neato ladybug party! We had a fun and lazy summer as I felt like poop most of the summer because....
........We have added another member to our family! On November 2, 2012 (do the math if you want. lol. explains a lot of my absence) We welcomed Miss Aria Faith to the family!
We had her blood drawn at birth and were pleased to find out that she doesn't have the partial trisomy 21 like Kaelyn. She has a balanced relocation like me! So her sister Kaelyn will be a great help and insight for when she decides to have children of her own. She will know, much more than we did, What to expect and a better lot of into to weigh her options and make informed decisions. This is not to say that we would go back and NOT have children, had we known, but she will have grown up with Kaelyn whereas any man might need to see the facts when they reach that point in their lives! But let me say this, Kaelyn and Aria are already great friends! Kaelyn loves to check on her first thing in the morning and Aria gives the biggest smiles ONLY to Kaelyn.
Kaelyn has adapted very well to being a big sister. If anything, she thinks SHE is in charge! It was a very nice holiday season. The perfect time to have maternity leave! I had Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years off. Even allowed the hubby to go hunting! YAY! Aria and Kaelyn thoroughly enjoyed all of the family time and cuddles and Kaelyn could have cared LESS about presents after she got a few of her favorites.Since Being back from maternity leave, We've celebrated Kaelyn's 3rd birthday and made many many memories.
Kaelyn has aged out of her birth-to-3 program and had extensive IEP testing and we've come to the conclusion that she doesn't have enough of a delay to qualify for Early Childhood Special Education 3k program. She was a bit let down since she got to come to the school with us for the IEP meeting and played in the class room and saw school busses and then we had to tell her she didn't get to go to school. Couple that with her beloved Miss Mary and Miss "Bicky" (Vicky) and Miss Natalie not coming to play anymore and the first few weeks of April were rough. Hubby carpools and one of his co-workers vehicle is a black car, just like one of her b-to-3 ladies so every morning she'd ask "Miss Bicky playing? Miss Mary playing?" to which i'd have to say "no i'm sorry honey. You are a big girl and you don't get to have them come over and play. but when they are at the park (as they often do for field trips and picnics for the parents) we can go over and say hi. they are special ladies and need to help other kids be strong and smart too!" and she'd be okay with it, until the next morning the car was there again and she'd hope that the car was one of her ladies coming to play.
Kaelyn's special Miss Mary!
Aria turned 6 months old yesterday to a SNOW STORM! Yes, you read me right. In western wisconsin we got 12 inches of snow on the 2nd day of MAY! We lost some branches and had a tree fall right over in our back yard. We woke up to no power, (which means no heat, no oatmeal or toast (much to kaelyn's dismay) and no electric breast pump!) It was such a crazy and hard time cuz kaelyn wanted oatmeal or toast, and a big cup of milk! I wasn't going to open the fridge and break the seal! We had peanut butter bread for breakfast with a side of dry cereal and bananas and thank GOD by lunch time the power was back on. but who knew it would be such a big deal to not have HEAT in May? I was unable to to make it to work because I wasn't going to go outside and leave my kiddos unsupervised while i shoveled the heavy wet snow! Kaelyn didn't nap very long because the whole day was just WRONG! lol. SO shoveling didn't happen until my hubby got home to be the many muscles. Thank goodness it was a weather related absence and wasn't held against me or i'd have found a way to hook Odie up to the sled and PULL me to work. lol.
This is the damage to the ash tree in our backyard! That is my porch on the left hand side!
I guess I will sign off for now. It's as much updating as I can fit in with a toddler who must go potty and an infant who needs to nurse. Or have her butt changed. I'm not sure which.
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Nice update! Keep at it!
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