A few random updates

These last few months have flown by. So much has been happening for all of us. So here is a run down on all that has been going on since October. Michael is 2 now! Plus Christmas in 19 days!

This is an amazing photo and I am so happy that we took it. Grandma has been a life saver these last few month for the whole family. I never imagined how much joy and love I would feel with her being in my kids lives. My heart truly overflows every time I see them together. I don't know how grandma has done it. With all that has happened throughout her life time she keeps going.

Ken is now a FULL-TIME employee at Costco with a SET SCHEDULE but has routing days off. He had his 90 day review and they are very happy with everything he has been doing. These last 3 months have been really hard on us with him working between 60 and 80 hours a week but it has been worth it! In January Ken is either going to quit CVS all together or transfer back to Foxworthy and only work 2 days a week. We are waiting to see if they will approve the transfer. All in all Ken is so happy with Costco his mood has improved so much and he feels like he is part of a team. He took an almost $5 pay cut though. So money is going to be really tight if he leaves CVS all together so please pray with us that they will okay his transfer.

We had our 1st review with Kaylee's teacher as well and learned that Kaylee is doing great with her school work and is the very very active and social. The only thing they are really working on is sitting calmly during circle time! LOL that is never going to happen. She goes M-F from noon to 3:30pm. The best part is Kaylee wants to go to school everyday. A month back she was sick and cried and cried when i would not let her go for 2 days. She is also finally out of 24 month clothes and can wear all 2t pants and 2t or 3t shirts! I am glad that she is growing. Kaylee also loves christmas. She decorated our tree, her room and Michael's room. We are doing the new advent calendar this year acts of kindness. Each day we do a kind thing for someone. She is amazing. I don't know how much she understands but her heart is amazing. The other day we were leaving a store and there was a man (i assume he was homeless) in a wheelchair asking for help. She asked about him. She thought for a minute and asked if we could give him some of out stuff. So she gave him a bag of goldfish and some capri-sun drinks. But the best part was she went and talk to him as if she had known him forever and wished him a Merry Christmas as we walked away. I hope that she never losses that. In her mind everyone deserves kindness no matter what.

Michael has been making great strides in talking these last few months! He has more and more words but the best part is that he sings songs all the time! His new favorite is Rain Rain go away..... He is going to finally start OT in January. I have been trying to figure that out for almost a year now. He is currently on antibiotics yet again for an infection and we are planning to have more tubes, his adenoids remove and biopsies all done at the same time in January. But slowly we are starting to see changes. ABA has been hard on all of us not just Michael. ABA is very day from 9 to noon and the 2 times a week in the afternoons 2.5 hours for a total of 20 hours a week, he has speech 2x a week and early intervention therapy 1x a week. The if you through in his doctors appointments and feeding therapies I spend a lot of time just dealing with him. But it has been so worth it. He has been making so much progress and I am learning how to parent him differently which makes us both more happy. He still gets in his moods and sometimes I can not figure out what he wants/needs but we are working on it.

As for me I am counting the days until Ken is just working one job. I am tired of doing all the parenting! He is gone in the morning when they wake up and he is gone for dinner time and bedtime. It has been hard. I just want to have ken around again to hang out with. I miss him and the fun we have. I have been trying to plan stuff to look forward to each week but its hard with 2 small kids. I am alone a like more than I like to be. I have been also having a hard time with my parents not being around which makes me really miss my grandpa Guetchow a lot. I have been dreaming about my mom a lot the last few months and the have not been the best of dreams which is even harder. I don't think i will never understand how the mind works. So for now I just push forward.

I am hopeful that 2017 will be much better that 2016 but still Ken and I have some big decisions to make in the next few weeks 2017 and I am nervous because as always my kid well being are the most important in my mind. As for now I pray a lot about everything and know that God is really the one with the plan not me. I am never truly understand his plan but knowing that it is there is some what comforting.