January!! Year I finally made it to 2009 post!

We rung in the New Year the old fashion way.. well old married way I should say! We stayed home and watched TV and or played on the internet. No big celebrations and we barely made it to midnight.
Berik is absolutely thrilled with his new tricycle! He can ride it really well and it beginning to go faster and faster almost to the point of tipping over. He doesn't mind, in fact he likes to wear his helmet, so that is good for us. We play train almost daily and he is enjoying his new puzzles immensly! He goes for a puzzle almost before anything else!
His tubes seem to be working although he didn't pass one of his follow up hearing tests so we will have to go back in Feb. He seems to becoming more and more verbal where you can clearly understand him.
He doesn't miss a chance to say bye to the house, the trees and any vehicle as he goes to school. He sings loud and proud and is now beginning to add his own endings to the songs to make them silly.
He keeps us going from daylight to dark and we are so blessed to have him. I will leave this here and just post a couple of pics of B man in action. There will be one picture that he is just staring. That is him concentrating on TV! Until Feb. you'll take care. Gena

December 2008 On a Roll!!

Before the month began good I had already decorated my parents house inside and out, as a surprise for them, while they were away for Thanksgiving! I had all my photo cards made and I even made some myself of Berik being Santa in the tub! I was on a roll !! I even managed to mail out 10 cards and was going to do the rest later. Back at my house, I got my artificial tree out, not wanting to spend the money on a real one, but I didn't have time to decorate it, so meanwhile, the cats climbed and climbed and climbed it for about a week, until it was completely demolished. Berik felt the need to hang a couple of coat hangers on it but other than that it was never decorated. I hauled the bent branches box and all to the curb and waved bye.
The rest of the month was a blurr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had one day off Dec. 5th, to take my mother shopping, as my weekends were all booked up with candy making and church Christmas parties, and wouldn't you know that Berik came down with his 3rd EAR INFECTION!!! , on Dec 4th at 1:30am with 103.5 fever poor guy! So to the Dr. we went and we got the referral to the ENT Dr. that we had asked for 2 ear infections ago. Long story short, Berik ended up taking antibiotics all weekend which didn't touch his infection and the Dr. had take a more serious approach with a series of injections, Mon, Tue. and Wed. 2 shots, one in each leg, simultaneously. He was not a happy camper and we felt so bad for him but his ears got better. So he ended up being sick for 10 days. The only day they had available for his tubes was 12-24, Christmas eve, so we scheduled it and waited hoping that he wouldn't get sick again before then. It snowed here by our standards on Dec. 11 and everyone was excited including Berik. He liked the sound of it crunching beneath his feet the best! One day we will take him to see "real" snow.
Meanwhile, Berik and I had fun making candy and cookies and all 3 of us went to our local Christmas parade. He loves parades and gets excited if he sees a string of cars, flags or people anywhere. Outside of the prison where I work, he saw a bunch of offenders that were being released on parole and exclaimed, " a parade, a parade!!" Jaimie and I laughed!
We celebrated our 3RD GOTCHA DAY on Dec. 23 and let Berik have his favorite meal of fried chicken and chocolate milk ! Mom and I never got to go shopping and I didn't get a tree until about 3 days before hand. I never mailed anymore cards and Jaimie and I barely managed to shop for Berik.All in all from Dec 4th-Dec. 24th it was a blurr!
He got his tubes on Christmas eve morning and was good to go to church in the evening. We put out cookies and milk for Santa and he seemed to get into that this year! He is at a really fun age!! Santa brought him a tricycle, which he pronounces bi sis sul.

and he got lacing boards, a memory game, pounding blocks, and a train. We kept it really minimal but he had a blast! Since we originally had planned to go to Alabama, my parents had made arrangements to spend the holidays out of town, so it was quiet here with just the 3 of us.
The weekend after Christmas we had my parents and my brother and his family over and had a whole other round of opening gifts. Berik loved helping everyone open their gifts! New Years slid by and that was it. Happy New Year!