New Changes

Hannah has started sitting on the potty, we have not had a deposit yet, but she at least is expecting me to take her to the potty when she gets up in the morning and after naps.

Hannah also finally gets to start speech therapy. She is 20 months old and has few words and is getting increasingly more difficult to figure out what she needs. The whole family gets frustrated. I think she is the worst. She wants to badly to tell us what is going on in her world, and she just is not able.

Here is to hoping that we are able to unlock her little voice.

I took the time to figure out pictures

Mom and Hannah on Christmas Eve..... Dave and Matthew getting ready for a morning of snow fun.....

Dave was going to make a igloo.....we all decided it was great in theory but too cold and the snow too dry.....

Hannah being the cutest baby girl ever.....

And last but not least I mentioned that we caught Santa......here is the proof......

Getting caught up

So I have neglected this thing called a blog for a couple weeks, things have just been crazy here. I have not felt well, school starting up again, Dave's job hunt, this new diet Matthew is on. We went to Pacific Beach last weekend.

School seems to be going well for Matthew, he is not getting in trouble for ridiculous things all the time. He has been struggling with a kid at the bus stop, but that even seems better. We still struggle with him actually following through on his classwork. That is something I can work with him on, the constant conduct referrals for just being an 11y/o boy seem to be in the past.

I seem to be fighting my second sinus infection since the big snow storm in December, I have had little to no energy and am tired all the time.

Dave is struggling with finding work, this economy is making it very difficult for those seeking employment. Apparently Washington is almost at the national average for unemployment at 7.1%. I hope he gets a bite soon, or I may begin to freak out.

Matthew seems to be doing well on the new food restrictions, we have not had too many nights of dinner time troubles. He is getting tired of the same old same old, I am trying to come up with new and creative ways to feed him, keeping away from wheat, corn, egg and dairy. Hopefully in the next month or so we can decrease some of his medications. We have been able to take him off of two of his meds as of right now. Which I am super excited about.

Now to the ocean trip, I was fantastic. We had Spring like weather. I think it was 64 degrees on Saturday when we were on the beach. I am ready for Spring. I am done being cold all the time. Matthew and Hannah also had a great time, I let Hannah just explore and did not worry about how messy it would be to clean up and I thin she had a blast. Dave and I watched the sunset on Sunday night which was wonderful to have some time just the two of us. We came home Monday and on the drive home we saw snow. It was a little bizarre.

So I am going to make a sincere effort to try and keep up on this blog a little more frequently. Till then.

The first day of the new year and new diet

I say diet but that is really not what it is, it is avoidance and I have to say day one of strictly avoiding wheat, corn, dairy and eggs went remarkably well. The only slip up we had was with chocolate from Santa, I forgot the milk chocolate would contain milk, duh......... But he seemed to be in good spirits about the whole thing.

I found another blog today, okay a allergy mom referred us all to it. This woman dedicated 2008 to her crock pot. She used it everyday the entire year. And all her recipes are gluten free. Probably not egg/corn and dairy free too, but it will be a place to start. I think I will try to use mine at least once a week.

My Easy Bake oven afternoon was fun. I made cheese sticks and more fudge. I think tomorrow it will be pizza, I secretly am LOVING this. Dave and Tami laughed because I looked so proud carrying my PB fudge from the Easy Bake to the refrigerator. They thought it was sooooo cute. I did have a pretty big smile on my face.

But this first day of the year was great, Hannah made us laugh, I played a seven song gig on RB2 and Matthew did not turn his nose up to "experimental pancakes" this morning. It is so nice to have Dave home, I secretly hope he can find a job that allows him to be home more. Maybe even work from home a day or so every once in a while....

Tomorrow it is off to the gym, and then the church Holiday Party, I am so looking forward to the Ligons spiced wine......it is not Christmas without many glasses of it at the party.

I think tomorrow I will try the Easy Bake pizza, then maybe some Matthew friendly pizza then off to the party.

Till then.......

New Years Eve Party

We had a fantastic New Years party. We all watched the ball drop at 9:00 in New York, then I was in bed and asleep by 11:30, I tried to watch the Space Needle fireworks, but was too tired. We got up this morning and had experimental pancakes. Today is the first day of No wheat, rice, and eggs.......in the strictest of ways. We will still also avoid corn. But back to the pancakes, the were an oat and rice flour combo that turned out edible for the first go around. My nieces who spent the night also enjoyed them. The texture was a little off, but everyone ate them.....I think I will try and add nutmeg or cinnamon. Then they may just be fantastic. I think when I am done playing Easy Bake oven today I will attempt some bread for Matthew, I have till Tuesday to be able to pack him a lunch for school.

Laura brought her Easy Bake oven over and we made peanut butter fudge, it was delicious. She even left it here so I can try some other recipes in it. I am secretly super excited. I always wanted one of those as a kid, and mom always said we could just do it in the regular oven. There is something about cooking by light bulb that is soooo cool.

Off to BFC with the Easy Bake.......