I figured I should take advantage of the last few days of Shawn being home and take down the Christmas decorations while I still had an extra set of hands to help manage the local village people. As I was boxing things away, Kimber became very concerned and ran to her stocking. Holding it close she told me "But I NEED this for Santa to bring me presents! I LOOOVE Christmas!" Yup... She's definitely got an extra chromosome of mine in her genetic make up. But as much as I hated to do it, we finished packing things up and we are ready to tackle the New Year!
We had a surprise party for Grandma Nielsen's 60th birthday and got to have Uncle Tom, Aunt Kim, Aunt Tami and Uncle Jim come up for the big tada! It was so much fun to spend two crazy days with everyone. Kimber did a great job dealing with all the noise and being off her usual schedule and only tried to hide in the cupboard once. ;)
Shawn and I made a New Years resolution to attend the temple at least once a month. As soon as we set a date on the calendar I started preparing myself for Thursday to be the worst day of the year! I was right! Brady had strep, I woke up not feeling well and Kimber had a bad food day and was being extra emotional. When Brady managed to blow out his diaper just as I was loading him into his car seat I was ready to call Shawn and just cancel. But instead, I loaded up two screaming children and pulled through a drive through for lunch. We were over an hour later than we had planned but I was SO glad we went. Somehow spending an hour sealing families together who have been waiting since the 1500's makes you more grateful for your own tribe of sleep boycotting, diaper filling, germ hosting, sassy little people. I am so glad they are mine forever!
Speaking of the little people here's how they are doing this month!
Brady
is 5 months old this month! He loves his toes and has finally decided that rice
cereal isn't going to kill him. He LOVES Kimber and lights up whenever she
enters the room. He is SO close to being an official scooter and can sit unassisted
for a few seconds. We absolutely LOVE his fun, happy, intense personality. I think my favorite part of having a child with muscle tone is when he insists on holding my finger as he falls asleep.
Brady
started off our New Year great and actually almost slept through the whole night! Kimber on the other
hand was up ALL NIGHT LONG. I felt I was pretty patient considering, but on the
fifth and final time I put her in bed I ran out of sweet good nights and told
her "It is night time. I don't want to see your face until the sun is
up." This morning I woke up to tiny fingers prying my eyelid open:
"mom? The sun is up! Want to see my face?!" She is a crack up!
She has a wonderful imagination and is a different baby animal every day. Baby Zebra is very energetic and runs around the house a lot. Baby Hippo likes to do art projects. Baby Elephant is hungry all the time. And Baby Lion gets stuck EVERYWHERE.
Her vocabulary continues to grow and with it her ever present sense of humor. Our new vocabulary word this month include "option", "treasure chest" and "diagnosis". She also loves using the phrases "Nooo Problem!" and "Oh right, right, right," in response to just about anything I try to tell her. She loves the alphabet and literally doesn't want to go anywhere without it. The other day we were rushing out the door, almost late to an appointment when she stopped dead in her tracks:
"Wait mom! I need my alphabet!"
"Kimber lets just leave it here ok?"
"But what if I need to build a word?!"
Needless to say we arrived to our appointment late, with a bag of alphabet magnets in tow.
Her new favorite TV shows are Doc McStuffins and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. One evening
Kimber asked several times to get on my bed. After talking about it three
times I started ignoring her request. I heard her walk into my room and I heard
her trying to "jump":
JUMP "I can't...." JUMP "quite..." JUMP "reach
it!" *pause* "hmm we need a mousektools to fix this problem.... Oh
toodles!!!!!!"
The highlight of our month was when we received her 6 mo evaluation back from early intervention. Kimber is officially not delayed in ANY developmental area. That doesn't mean that we don't have to keep working hard and going to therapy, but I am so SO proud of her and can't believe we are looking at placing her in a preschool with typically developing peers! She is incredible! The Lord continues to show us that He is not done working through this amazing miracle we are blessed to have in our home.
So that's it! Our 2016 is off to a great start! We hope yours is as well! Love you all!
Enjoy some other photos of our January madness!
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