Falling out of Bed...seriously?

I have been sick for like a month on and off. I don't know what it is but I am either sharing germs with Brittany who has had the longest case of runny nose or its allergies, or perhaps allergies and germs have been tag teaming me for so long they have formed some kind of allergerms. Point is last night I was so tired and snotty and sick I fell asleep on the sofa, when I woke up and proceded to my bed to go to sleep I reached up to turn the light off above my bed, lost balance and fell backwards onto the floor. Jeff came rushing in and said all he heard was THUMP and "oh shit...." I don't even remember saying anything but laughing hidiously and crawling back into bed. LOL

So anyways, our porch is still missing its better half and things are back to normal otherwise. I schedule Brittany a Developmental Assessment with a Psychologist in Feb. We need this in order to finish wrapping up the paperwork and finalizing the adoption. Resources tell me (aka my social worker) that she will request an updated home study from my clinician sometimes in March and should receive that back by April. Once she gets that in she will write up the paperwork to negotiate subsidy with the state and we will sign the papers in agreement for that. Once that comes back we can go find us a lawyer to write up some more papers and set a court date where we will finalize in court. So yay! I am excited. Apparantly this assessment will give us more of an idea where Brittany is developmentally so we can negotiate more child care and support if needed. I don't think she has any delays though. The only thing really is her speech. She isn't saying anything very clearly and mummbles allot. Again I was told this is common for kids til they are about 2 but after being around my neice Makena who literally spoke like an adult at 12 months old it makes me worried.

hummmm what else is there to report on? I changed her PCP (primary care physician) to a Dr closer to our house. Last week I set an appointment to see her Dr in Kingwood but he wasn't there so we had to drive all the way out to The Womans Center down freaking town. That's really so much hassle and headache and takes all day. And what really tics me off is that when we get there he says "She has an ear infection" writes us a perscription and sends us off. He does nothing whatsoever for her cough and nevermind the fact she has been wheezing for two days and coughing so much she throws up. He says he is a minimalist and if its not killing her not to worry about it. What an ass. So I found one in Cleveland that my cousin and now my sister goes to for Aiden. I set up an appointment to follow up on the ear infection for Monday. We will see how that goes.

My throat is killing me, making me cough at the worst times on the phone and I can't even stop it.

Jeff has gout...again. I looked up some info on the internet yesterday and it says to drink coffee, tons of water, cherries and blueberries and soak your gout infested area in charcoal paste. So Jeff did all that yesterday, except the charcoal paste, and this morning said it was feeling a tad better....hum go figure.

Also my friend Melissia's baby London is 1 year old today! I can't believe how fast time has flown by. She got London when she was 7 months old and already its her BIRTHDAY!!! She should be finalizing her adoption around the same time we do. They also started at the exact same time we did. Pretty cool!!!

Christmas Play

Jeff's mom and dad made Brittany the biggest kitchen set ever! LOL It's super heavy and will probably last her until the day she moves out. She really loves it and you can hear her beating and smacking on it all day long.



I bought her a little baking set from Bed Bath and Beyond on their Black Friday sale and it came with a little kids baking sheat and cookie cutters and wisk and this cute little apron. It's too big for her now but she likes it. lol




She thinks she looks good!






She loves playing with her oven.




I think she might be rolling her eyes at me! lol j/k

Adell even made her some kid size oven gloves. Too cute!

We had to put Elmo on the frig because she gets kind of ruff with him.

Bake Brittany Bake!!!

Me and Jeff got Brittany this little power wheel she loves to drive around all day and get into wrecks with the walls and tables and dogs and cats.

It took her while to get the hang of it but after she did she doesn't care about playing with anything else. Besides her kitchen of course.

Wrecking into the sofa.

She thinks she is too cute!

And she is!

Silly little butt monkey!

This is her new silly face she loves to make when I get on to her!

Laying back watching Barney! She loves Barney.

Christmas Eve at Nanny's House

So every year since I was a wee child we have gone to my Nanny's on Christmas Eve without fail! This year was no different. She always gets the grandkids something and the older kids stocking stuffers and then we play either secret santa or the White Elphant Game. This year it was the WEG and I ended up getting a new Coach purse. It was SWEET! Brittany have a good time but not without throwing a minnie fit! heh heh



As you can see here she is not happy about this.




Then it was present time! She was more interested in opening the gifts then the gift and by the end of the night she was opening EVERYONES gifts. lol




This is her with Makena.






She got a new Disney Princess Beauty from Beauty and the Beast. This is my all time favorite Disney movie!






If you press her hand she sings and her necklace and earings light up. Brittany really likes dolls that sing and talk.

Ahhh look at my sweet baby kissing her doll.

Cookies at Nanny's House!

Okay so I just uploaded a million pictures, but all with good reason. Every year since I was 7 years old we have made Christmas cookies with my Nanny. And now that I have a daughter, YAY, she gets to continue the tradition. These cookies, are not really made to eat as much as they are to play. LOL, later you will see why. And no one really eats them in my family but yet each year my Nanny still proudly displays them at our Christmas Eve dinner to show what a great time she had with her grandchildren and now great-grandchildren.

Saturday we were the first ones to show up. It was 8:30 and my Nanny decided to let Brittany get down and dirty before everyone else arrived. And boy did she!




She thought it was allot of fun to play in the flour! We did Thanksgiving cookies too but I dont think we used much flour with those.




My Nanny was trying to teach her to press down and wiggle and then you would have your little bear or angel shape cookie and then we cook them. Yea she understood the wiggle part but was much more interested in getting dirty.





At one point she was coughing and put her hand over her mouth where the entire bottom of her face was covered in flour, and then she rubbed it in her hair!

After we cut them out we cleaned her up a bit so she could run around but she decided to throw a little fit because I wouldn't let her play in the bathroom! Bad toddler!

My Nanny then convinced her to sit still long enough to paint some snow flakes on her toes. She really liked it and I was suprized to see her sit for so long. Later she did some on her fingers but she ate those off! lol I hope the paint wasn't toxic!

There were allot of Grandkids and Great-Grandkids show up around 9. This is my cousin Anna's daughter Carmen. She is kind of a Momma's girl and wont talk to anyone else but her Mom. Its kind of funny. But slowly she is interacting more with us and with Brittany.

This is my neice Maci, making her ugly face! It is pretty hideous. Behind her is my cousin Anna!

This is my neice Makena, she is making the crazy eyes! LOL

Brittany sitting like a big girl eating her banana. Trust me, this didn't last long and she spit the banana out on the floor.

Here is our attempt to take a nice group photo with Nanny and all the great-grandkids. As you can see, it was short lived.

Then once the cookies were out of the oven we proceded to decorate them. Nanny makes her own icing from powdered sugar, milk and food dye. The kids ate more of the icing then anything! It was pretty funny and the cookies were basically just smeared in frosting.

This is what Brittany looked like after she was done "decorating" the cookies. Covered in frosting from head to toe. You can bearly tell but she had it all over her legs and feet.

Maci and Makena decorating cookies.

So I had to strip her down to clean her off.

And wash her in the sink.

After that we went to my mom's house for more family gatherings and then off to Jeff's grandmothers to make candy. I LEFT MY CAMERA at my mom's house like an idiot so didn't really get pictures of the rest of our day! But it was LONG.

We had a good time though and I think Brittany really liked it too! We go back on Christmas Eve so I will take some pics of the cookies, which I completely forgot to, and then see how many people actually eat them! heh heh

Kitty Mitty gets a bath!

So Kitty was being all cute and playful as usual when I decided to give her a bath because her eyes get crusty and I thought the warm water would be nice on them, plus I saw a couple of fleas.



Boy was she not happy. Suprizingly she swatted at me a million times but never used her claws.




She really is a skinny minny kitty !





Kitty Mitty was a bear, Kitty Mitty was all hair!






She was not liking the extra blinding flashes!







I blew dried her as much as I could and then she sulked on the sofa. Poor baby!

Myspace Pose!!!

So last Friday Jeff had his work dinner at "Perry's Steak and Grill" and we were getting ready and waiting for Jessica and Tommy to pick us up when we decided to snap some pics of us together, which we haven't done in awhile, in myspace form. lol

In this picture you can really see a good shot of my double chin. It's fabulous.



In this shot I did the double chin cheese face and Jeff did the scary side head face.




In this picture we did the Brittanys hur hur hurrr face.





I decided to get a better angle at just my one chin from up high and it worked.






Jeff's side single eye is kinda ruining this pic.







Then we took a pretty good one.








Ah my husband is so handsome. You would never really know he is the devil incarnate. heh heh