I am having a hard time potty training Landen.When at school he wears pullups and they do take him to the bathroom and put him on the potty!At home the minute he comes in the door i take pullup off and put him training underpants.At night he wears a pull up.
He does not like pullups and LOVES the underpants problem is...HE PEED 3 TIMES ON MY DINING ROOM FLOOR today.Ant that's after i have taken him potty and made him sit on the potty for 15 MINUTES. The only way i can get him to sit on the potty that long is with a toothbrush he LOVES to brush his teeth.But today he just PLAIN refuses to go on the potty.I have tried rewards M$M,s and lots of praises.any ideas?I'm tired of mopping up PEE.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
SPECIAL NEEDS
I want to talk about alittle about Microcephaly because this is something Our 9 yr old is diagnosed wtih.When we heard about a little boy who was in need of a home in an orphanage in India We asked for more information .At first we were told this child was blind and deaf could not walk nor talk .we didnt care once we seen his picture we were HOOKED.Then we were given a medical file.We were not sure what we were getting into.It said...child blind, and deaf ,child is micrcephalic, developmentally delayed ,possible autism.
Ok can deal with blind and deaf and can deal with delays and autism but what in the world is MICROCEPHALY.I decided to do some reasearch and what i read on line scared the hell out of me.It said that a child who has Micro ... iminate death...I cried and cried when i read this.I decided this wasnt enough so i called and talked to 3 pediatricians and they all told us not to adopt him.I was shocked and cried and prayed.My heart was saying dont listen to them bring him home and my brain was saying leave him there he is too much care.
My heart won that battle..I joined a group for parents with children who have Micrcophaly and they eased my fears they were living proof that what you read on line should be taken with a grain of salt.Then i met a pediatrician and was talking to him while we were waiting to bring our son home from India.This pediatrician was MICROCEPHALIC...i was amazed with him and he explained alot to me and he said...Its simply a small head thats what micro is.Some have delays and some dont.I am living proof of a person with Micro.Yes he was.
When we got our son home we were surprised to see our child was walking.We were told he couldnt walk.deaf?NOPE not a bit he hears perfectly fine.Blind?Yes he is legally can see about 6 inches and does everything any other little boy does.Autistic...You bet has come out of his shell and is doing so so much beter.So when a person makes a comment about Micro i tell them whats the problem?It means small head.There is a little girl with Micro in an orphanage far away.I dream about this sweet baby and wish with SOME miracle we could bring her home.I pray for her i go look at her picture it tears me up dreaming and wishing she could be our daughter.
Special needs children.....alot of people say we are nuts we have Landen and now Jaxson will be joining our family soon he is also special needs with cerebral palsey people say things like you will have your hands full YES will and i will LOVE everyminute of it.I would NOT change a thing parenting my special needs babies...It will be a challenge having two of them yes.But so so worth everybit of that challenge.The unconditional love they give even if they cant verbalize it its there,The smile Landen gives and the way he loves life.Jax i know will be the same.Could i make room for another child with special needs?YES whats another.Can i afford to adopt again?NO But if by some miracle we could raise money to bring a certain little girl home I WOULD IN HEART BEAT.The life lessons i have learned from my son amazes me.I get asked alot of dumb questions from people about Landen.
What makes me the maddest is when someone says...Oh how good of you to SAVE a child with special needs?SAVE?no i didnt save him i became a mom a mom to a child who has so much to offer the world and so much more he can share with others.My babies have a place in this world too!Right here with their family where they are loved and cherished and praised upon for every thing they learn new .
Ok can deal with blind and deaf and can deal with delays and autism but what in the world is MICROCEPHALY.I decided to do some reasearch and what i read on line scared the hell out of me.It said that a child who has Micro ... iminate death...I cried and cried when i read this.I decided this wasnt enough so i called and talked to 3 pediatricians and they all told us not to adopt him.I was shocked and cried and prayed.My heart was saying dont listen to them bring him home and my brain was saying leave him there he is too much care.
My heart won that battle..I joined a group for parents with children who have Micrcophaly and they eased my fears they were living proof that what you read on line should be taken with a grain of salt.Then i met a pediatrician and was talking to him while we were waiting to bring our son home from India.This pediatrician was MICROCEPHALIC...i was amazed with him and he explained alot to me and he said...Its simply a small head thats what micro is.Some have delays and some dont.I am living proof of a person with Micro.Yes he was.
When we got our son home we were surprised to see our child was walking.We were told he couldnt walk.deaf?NOPE not a bit he hears perfectly fine.Blind?Yes he is legally can see about 6 inches and does everything any other little boy does.Autistic...You bet has come out of his shell and is doing so so much beter.So when a person makes a comment about Micro i tell them whats the problem?It means small head.There is a little girl with Micro in an orphanage far away.I dream about this sweet baby and wish with SOME miracle we could bring her home.I pray for her i go look at her picture it tears me up dreaming and wishing she could be our daughter.
Special needs children.....alot of people say we are nuts we have Landen and now Jaxson will be joining our family soon he is also special needs with cerebral palsey people say things like you will have your hands full YES will and i will LOVE everyminute of it.I would NOT change a thing parenting my special needs babies...It will be a challenge having two of them yes.But so so worth everybit of that challenge.The unconditional love they give even if they cant verbalize it its there,The smile Landen gives and the way he loves life.Jax i know will be the same.Could i make room for another child with special needs?YES whats another.Can i afford to adopt again?NO But if by some miracle we could raise money to bring a certain little girl home I WOULD IN HEART BEAT.The life lessons i have learned from my son amazes me.I get asked alot of dumb questions from people about Landen.
What makes me the maddest is when someone says...Oh how good of you to SAVE a child with special needs?SAVE?no i didnt save him i became a mom a mom to a child who has so much to offer the world and so much more he can share with others.My babies have a place in this world too!Right here with their family where they are loved and cherished and praised upon for every thing they learn new .
HORRIBLE THREE'S
We are going through the HORRIBLE THREE'S.Mr Landen has been saying no alot,stripping his clothes off,and sticking things in his nose and ears.At christmas he tried to put a candy cane in his ear!He had a peice laying inside the ear but luckily it did not fall down in the canal.He also puts straws up his nose.He doesnt listen and does things he knows he is not suppose to do just to get a rise out of you.I am happy to see him going through his Milestones though.When he came home to us 4 yrs ago he was developing at age 9 months at almost 5 yrs old.Now he has progressed so so much.But whew are we at a trying stage. Oh and the sassiness OH MY! Has he ever been sassy...tells his sister Linda to get out or shut up.Tells Rebecca get off me, shut up ,and no. We still have not mastered Potty training ughhh i am working hard to get him to want to train.But darn he is so funny and cute.His vocabulary had doubled in the past few months.I know one day this milestone will pass but some days is so trying.But what can i say GOTTA LOVE THIS KID WHATS NOT TO LOVE!LOOK!
I received this in the mail this morning from our agency!It is one of the newest pictures we received of our little Munchkin.I AM SO IN LOVE WITH THIS LITTLE GUY! Isn't he just sweet?This is the outfit i sent for him.It is 12month in size and wow the shorts are longer then i thought they would be and his socks drowned him size 12-18 month socks.I know he has tiny footsies.I am so ready to hold my son in my arms forever! Cant wait! I am praying to get approval soon from USCIS and even better to get the call stating it time to TRAVEL.I am so ready to get him home.I had to share my gorgeous Boy!
Friday, January 9, 2009
OUR HOME!
When Michael and I bought our home 14 yrs ago we bought a house that was condemmed.Alot of people ask why we did instead of a home that was nice and ready to move in?Reasons.....when Michael and i married 15 yrs ago we were both in very unhappy marriages and we met as some would say on the rebound we met shortly after our divorces.Not that we felt that way. Michael and his ex wife were in serious financial straights when they divorced he was in Bankruptcy and we just could not Purchase a home with that looming over him.I was a stay at home mom when i was married and ZERO credit.So my little sister told me about a house that needed alot of work and was cheap and came with 2 house lots and had 3 bedrooms.Of course we were willing to come look at it...we were living in an apartment and wanted to start our new life in a home.
We set an appointment to come look at the house.My dad is a carpenter and came with us.I walked in and was APPAULED a family was living in a home at the time in this RUNDOWN place.I wanted to RUN and never look back at that ole ugly floors falling in home.But my dad says...It has great potential and would be a nice home.So we called the owner and told him we were ready to buy the house.I AM SO GLAD WE DID! It took many months to fix it to move in but its our home and we have worked hard on it.Michael and I have learned alot about finances and have learned to save to fix things.We dont own any credit cards..Our MOTTO...If we cant pay for it outright we DONT need it. We gutted our bathroom and remodeled after many years of living here.Its how we want it now.We may not do all remodels at once but it is comming together Nicely.We recently painted the living room and the dining room and pulled carpet out of the dining room and put the laminate wood floor in I LOVE IT.
There was many times we have said..What did we get into wish we could torch it and start over.But the kids are older and appreciate things better and we are now taking the time and doing it right.i love my house.It is not large by anymeans and can be cramped at times but we love it and would not have it anyotherway.Our home is one of the first sears and robuck kit homes.You can see through the years where rooms were added on.Our bedroom and bathroom were add on. there was a well outside we filled it in and capped it with cement it was to dangerous and when we moved here we had 2 toddlers and a baby and 1st grader.There was a back porch that if you stepped on it the whole thing shook.We ripped it off and put a nice deck on.We are proud of the work we have done.Michael and I have put our hearts into our home.We are now saving money again to get new carpet in our living room(i wanted the laminate floor in the living room) but michael says no he wants carpet.We also are planning on remodeling the whole kitchen it is very outdated and needs new cabinets.We want to get Jax home first and then will start working on these things when we have our son home.I can truly say Home is where the heart is.we have lots of sweat and many tears as some of the projects took Longer then anticipated.When we remodled bathroom Michael was in Iraq and my dad was doing the work.The bathroom had alot of issues OLD PLUMBING floor joices bad the works.The kids and I lived almost 2 months in the camper at the lake.AT least there we could have a bathroom and a shower.We would drive home acouple times a week and do Laundry and check on things at home and mow yard.It all worked out the kids and I love camping so it was like an extended vacation.
we have talked about selling and moving to Atchison(where we do all our shopping and docs and things and jobs) But we love it here and we are loving our home.We have Memories here our first home where our babies have grown up.I cant sale this place no way.I look back and feel so blessed for what we have and how hard we have worked to get here.We of course are feeling the economy crunch right now as everyone is and are really buckling on every dollar we spend.But it will be worth it in the end.We have a home we love happy healthy kids and a happy marriage.I may not be rich by far but we are HAPPY! what more could i want?
We set an appointment to come look at the house.My dad is a carpenter and came with us.I walked in and was APPAULED a family was living in a home at the time in this RUNDOWN place.I wanted to RUN and never look back at that ole ugly floors falling in home.But my dad says...It has great potential and would be a nice home.So we called the owner and told him we were ready to buy the house.I AM SO GLAD WE DID! It took many months to fix it to move in but its our home and we have worked hard on it.Michael and I have learned alot about finances and have learned to save to fix things.We dont own any credit cards..Our MOTTO...If we cant pay for it outright we DONT need it. We gutted our bathroom and remodeled after many years of living here.Its how we want it now.We may not do all remodels at once but it is comming together Nicely.We recently painted the living room and the dining room and pulled carpet out of the dining room and put the laminate wood floor in I LOVE IT.
There was many times we have said..What did we get into wish we could torch it and start over.But the kids are older and appreciate things better and we are now taking the time and doing it right.i love my house.It is not large by anymeans and can be cramped at times but we love it and would not have it anyotherway.Our home is one of the first sears and robuck kit homes.You can see through the years where rooms were added on.Our bedroom and bathroom were add on. there was a well outside we filled it in and capped it with cement it was to dangerous and when we moved here we had 2 toddlers and a baby and 1st grader.There was a back porch that if you stepped on it the whole thing shook.We ripped it off and put a nice deck on.We are proud of the work we have done.Michael and I have put our hearts into our home.We are now saving money again to get new carpet in our living room(i wanted the laminate floor in the living room) but michael says no he wants carpet.We also are planning on remodeling the whole kitchen it is very outdated and needs new cabinets.We want to get Jax home first and then will start working on these things when we have our son home.I can truly say Home is where the heart is.we have lots of sweat and many tears as some of the projects took Longer then anticipated.When we remodled bathroom Michael was in Iraq and my dad was doing the work.The bathroom had alot of issues OLD PLUMBING floor joices bad the works.The kids and I lived almost 2 months in the camper at the lake.AT least there we could have a bathroom and a shower.We would drive home acouple times a week and do Laundry and check on things at home and mow yard.It all worked out the kids and I love camping so it was like an extended vacation.
we have talked about selling and moving to Atchison(where we do all our shopping and docs and things and jobs) But we love it here and we are loving our home.We have Memories here our first home where our babies have grown up.I cant sale this place no way.I look back and feel so blessed for what we have and how hard we have worked to get here.We of course are feeling the economy crunch right now as everyone is and are really buckling on every dollar we spend.But it will be worth it in the end.We have a home we love happy healthy kids and a happy marriage.I may not be rich by far but we are HAPPY! what more could i want?
SINUSE SURGERY
I have considerd having it done.They get so bad it messes my equilibrium up and knocks my hearing out.But my doc thinks me smoking is the key to helping them.So i am trying that and if not then we are talking the surgery.I am miserable at this point.My face feels like i ran into a wall and the ongoing headache and popping in my ears has been horrible.I just started the antibiotics and hope by Monday to notice a difference. He also will prescribe me meds for when we travel.The altitude on the planes has really messed with them.So in order not to be sick the whole week we are in Liberia with our gorgouse son i will not be sick or so i hope.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
LETTER FROM USCIS!
I am really getting aggitated! I got a letter asking for Michael and I's divorce decrees! I SENT them they have them.Must have lost them because they are asking for them again.So i gather our divorce decrees and will gets copies to send to them first thing in the morning.I am praying this is IT.Why didn't she ask for these when i was on the phone and she wanted the original homestudy?Besides she should HAVE THEM i sent them along with other docs needed.
Ok thats it for my vent but sheesh its been way over 3 months if we needed these she could of told us 2 weeks ago and she would fo got them when she got New homestudy.
I went to the doctor today and he put me on antibiotic and a steroid for my sinuses.I also start physical therapy again for the pinched nerve in my shoulder.If they are not better in a few days i am to call him again and see what next step is to get my sinuses under control. PLEASE PRAY we need nothing more for USCIS and we get approval soon.
Ok thats it for my vent but sheesh its been way over 3 months if we needed these she could of told us 2 weeks ago and she would fo got them when she got New homestudy.
I went to the doctor today and he put me on antibiotic and a steroid for my sinuses.I also start physical therapy again for the pinched nerve in my shoulder.If they are not better in a few days i am to call him again and see what next step is to get my sinuses under control. PLEASE PRAY we need nothing more for USCIS and we get approval soon.
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