Jeaniece's Visit. She brought the boys!

We had so much fun when Jeaniece and Ethan and Drew came to visit. Click on each collage to make it bigger so you can see all the pictures better. For my family it was a stay-cation. These are from random spots/times. I hope to post another blog with more of our activities soon.

They're coming... We're coming!!

Young Women's fundraiser at church! Awesome fun time!!

First next stop: Mission San Jose:

The next 2 colleges I made are not uploading. Ugh ahh. Posting now.

Park adventure leads to mild injury and pain

The kids and I went on an adventure on Saturday. We wanted to find a good park with a nice playground in our area. We found 6 parks. We played at 3. All of the playgrounds in our area had signs that say they are for kids ages 5-12. My kids are not in that range as we have a 2 year old, a 13 year old and a 15 year old. So, we only used the playground at the ones we were the only ones at. It was a fun and funny adventure driving around using our Sprint Navigation to locate parks. But then tragedy struck. Or rather Mariana's legs struck. She was swinging along riding high minding her own business. I was sitting next to the swing set and just started talking on the phone to give my hubby an update as to where his family was when out of the blue appears Little Cody. Right where the swing would be sitting if it were unoccupied. However, since the swing was occupied it was not there it was up high in the sky. Every thing happened in a split second. I let out a scream. The swing and it's rider came down. Cody fell flat on his face. The swing was poised to come back. I grabbed the little ankles and pulled him to safety so he would not get hit again on the backward landing. Marian and the swing came to a halt. Stephanie (who had been right behind the boy, but not quick enough to prevent the whole thing) came running up. Alas, our park adventure day was coming to an end. We had fun. Cody will be ok. He is bruised and banged up but nothing is broken. He should be walking again by tomorrow. (Which will be day 3/4.)

Oh the joys and horrors of being a mom. I love my kids so much. I am so thankful he is ok.

I am just awful! This happened yesterday...

These are before
Then after. I didnt even it out because I felt it was getting worse and my husband needed to come home and see it and tell me what to do.

How the days fly by

As time goes on and the days fly by I find I am not having time to catch up with myself and my blogging. I am happy people are still blogging and posting. I am mostly using the facebook to post pictures.

Cody is 2 years and almost 4 months old now. He is so cute. I know I think it because I am his mom. It makes me feel really happy when total strangers feel the need to tell me when we are out and about. People are sweet and funny and all kinds of random.

Cody really loves his sisters. He has really bonded with them. Every time they come over he runs up to them. He knows they are awesome and love him, too.

He is my sweet sweet boy.

Here is the skinny. There is a lot going on with him. And not enough, really. Here is the run down. I feel so unorganized. This week is vacation for me and my sister is here and I am loving it. We are having so much fun. But this vacation is not the one I get to get caught up with myself and get on task. Maybe the next week I have off. Hee hee. Ok, there was a bit of a tangent. I was about to tell you the info on little Cody. Read on after the jump if you want to. My sister told me tonight that Cody is still like a baby. He should be acting like a toddler but, he is still like a baby. It makes me sad, but in a way it is true. Cody doesn't talk. He has a hard time communicating. He has a hard time in general when his routine is off too much like it is this week. (We are getting bouts of crying fits.) He can't tell me what is wrong. He loves to cuddle. He likes playing ball with people. He likes to clap. He enjoys me reading to him. He loves it when I sing to him. He walks and runs and jumps. He feeds himself and is a great eater. He is a bit small for his age. In the 24 percentile or some such thing. He doesn't change his own clothes or even take them off (except his shoes and socks.) He will put his bowl in the sink and go get the kitty, but never leave the room to get a diaper or his shoes. He still does some signs but uses Please and More interchangeably. He confuses Thank you and Blowing Kisses thanks to his school thinking he was being cute and teaching/changing the thank you to kisses. Some signs he has stopped using all together, as well. What does all this mean? Well, we don't really know for sure. Except that like Jeaniece said, he doesn't seem to be caught up.
"They" told me he would be caught up by the time he was two. That he should be "normal" by then. He isn't. This is what we have been doing: He has the Texas early intervention program, Brighton coming to his day care every other week for an hour to work with him. We have had his hearing checked and found out he has fluid behind his right ear drum. It is not infected. It is causing some hearing loss. We have an appointment next week with the a Speech Specialist. This doctor is not through the state. It is a private doctor. Then 2 days later we follow up with the hearing specialist. This doctor hopefully will know and let us know if tubes will help. (Cody has only ever had one ear infection that we have known about.) The fluid behind his eardrum is not infected. Then in the following weeks already scheduled is the appointment with the Autism network. All of these appointment are second and third appointments following up on tests and analizations they have already done for/on him.

I really think he is handling every thing like a trooper. I talked with my cousin Hollie a few weeks ago. She told me I seem to be handling all of this pretty well. I am not sure how I am handling it. I am loving him. I am doing the best job I can. I wish I had more time to be with him and focus on teaching him and helping him. I don't know how, though, even if I did have the time. So, I am trying. I am taking him to all of these appoints and will get lessons on what we are suppose to do and what we can do to help him. Big Cody, or daddy as we refer to him to Lil Cody is so supportive and helpful. He is so patient and loving and kind. I can see the love and bond between them growing every day. I love my Cody's so much.

This blog took a turn I wasn't really expecting. Thanks for reading. Sorry it is so long, this is more for me than anything else, I guess. I suppose I needed to share.

Big ole Deal!!

The picture in the post below was Cody's last day with the Binky. It has been a struggle for me at bed time but he is doing pretty great.

Quick with Pic...

I should be in bed. Here are some quick pictures...





We went to the Magic Time Machine when my mom was here. The kids love it. The wait staff all dress up like characters. We got Laura Croft the last 2 times we were there. The girls loved her. She does a pretty good Laura Croft impression, too.



I had to go on a trip to Houston. I am so glad my mom was able to come here and help out with little Cody.

I turned 33 a few weeks ago. Wowzers! Jeaniece said 30 was my year. I am going to have 33 be my year, too!