Well since it's been a few days I figured I would catch up and fill you in on what is going on around here lately. Life has been alot of bad news on right after another. Go figure. Nothing with the babies this time, thank heavens just life in general. Besides Jw got into trouble at school this week. I guess there has been a couple of boys that have been picking on him. Well, yesterday he had finally had enough and when one boy pushed him down, he got up and pushed him right back. That is when they got caught. He and the boy now have all recesses taken away for the whole next week and if they get caught one more time they will be suspended for three days. I have so many mixed emotions about this. All of Jw's life he has been intimidated over everything. If someone picked on him or even beat on him, he would just come running home and whine about it. His father, step mother and my husband (step dad) kept telling him to stand up for himself and not take it from anyone. Hit them back. Do what ever you can to stand up for yourself. If you get suspended then enjoy your three days out of school. I have the mixed emotions b/c I don't approve of fighting no matter what the situation. But I don't want to see my child be beat on all his life either. So how would you justify this? Especially when you have three other people telling him no matter what the outcome stand up for yourself and hit back or whatever.

Now being in a school that has a "NO TOUCH" poilicy, as is most of them no a days. He will get punished one way or another for his actions. SO how would you teach a child that fighting is wrong if he is only standing up for himself when someone else is beating, pusing or picking on you. I always told him that if it's words, let it go. But now they are laying their hands on him. Last month I had to take pictures of Jw's leg b/c he had three bruises on them from a kid kicking him. Jw did nothing in return. So they came back after him. Telling a teacher only gets him ridiculed and picked on. So I'm so lost as to what it should be.

More bad news has come around here. The guy that was to buy my inlaws house last minute back out on his agreement and decided that if he was to actually buy the place that he wanted to pay a conisderable cheaper amount then what he last quoted to us. So of course b/c his initial bid was forty thousand cheaper then the actual appraisel, everyone turned him down. So now the house is back on the market and waiting for new prospective buyers. Now as most people know, this is not a good time to sell your home. There are so many homes to choose from that one that needs so much work and what not, why put the money into it? We surely chose against it. Most others will too. But now we have gone from our quarter of the money coming at the end of the year, to the second week of Jan. TO end of Jan. To now, let's wait and see. Puts us more and more into debt. Fun, Fun!

The cool part of life though, is, My sleeping habits have changed once again... Now I'm in bed by eight PM and I wake between four AM and six AM. It makes it nice to be awake before everyone else in the house and be able to see the sun come up and enjoy my quiet time alone before the world wakes up around here. Even cooler, at six Am I can turn off Kaylee's feeding machine and somewhere between six thirty and seven Kaylee wakes up wanting to face her day. Now seeing as Monday through Friday the nurse doesn't show up until eight o'clock. We get to chill together and hang out... That is alot of fun. So I get her up, flush her tube from feeding all night, change her diaper and bring her out to my bed and we hang out until it's time for the nurse to come. We watch tv and chat and just lay there. Sometimes she falls asleep with me and sometimes she will just sit and stare at me while I talk to her. It's cool.

She has been doing awesome. For someone who isn't suppose to do anything. She is doing ALOT. On her belly time lately, she has been holding herself up and looking around the room. On Tuesday this past week she even did push ups on her hands. It was so cool. So like we said, you don't always listen whole heartedly to the Dr's about what a child can and cannot do. B/c sometimes they may surprise you. And Kaylee has surprised all of us. She seems so alert. Sometimes she even tries to talk to us. Yesterday while the nurse put her on belly time she was staring at her fuzzy blanket.. So I went in and got her a couple of her soft books. They have bright colors and shapes on them. One wiggles when you pull the tail of the doggy and the other tweets when you push on a birds belly. She was staring at them and then started talking to them. It was soooo cool. We are going to get her a mirror so she can start looking at herself. When Early Intervention comes in, sometimes they put a mirror in front of her and she loves it.

So now Melissa knows. She will definantly not give up hope and keep working with her and prove all those dr's wrong.....

Above is the picture of Kaylee and I chilling after she finished her eight o'clock bottle. Being Saturday, I got to have the joy of feeding her. Mom got up to do it all. I had her do her meds. and I fed her. After she finished eating she relaxed enough and fell asleep on my arm. It was so cute.

Kyla on the other hand started using a sippy cup. Wic told Melissa that she was big enough to start using it. Also, that she was big enough to start eating bitter biscuts and little finger snacks. So she went and bought her a cup with handles baby cheese curls and swayback (those toasty bitter things) She loved that swayback or what ever it's called. She had it everywhere. It was all over her face, down her shirt, inside her shirt. It was halarious. She also put some formula in her cuppy and she actually drank out of it. She played and chewed on it alot. But for the first time using it, I was shocked that she actually drank some. Considering they are going to be seven months this month on the 23rd. I think she has done really well, quickly... Don't you? When Melissa puts the pics online, I'll steal one of her with her cuppy and put it up. It's soooo cute....

Anyway, I know that I've written a whole lot today. So I will stop now. I guess I have to save some for the next few days.. RIGHT???? Hope everyone has a good weekend!

OH AND BY THE WAY........ GO PATS!!!!!!!!!!!!