Monday, December 10, 2018

!!!Moving!!!

Here is a sneak peak of our new place … we will get more pictures of the inside tomorrow when we got to do measurements.  John was promoted and transferred again with his job, so we are moving to Carney's Point, NJ (by deleware).  We move in less than 3 weeks … what an adventure!



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First Snow

 So thankful Glory is improving on the medication and felt up to enjoying our first snow !!





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Late update

I know its been months since I've posted on this blog. Glory's new diagnosis had us very busy with doctor appointments .. it seems we have been living at the doctors. If not for Glory for the fosters, as we also found some health issues with Romeo. Although it seems that way.. its nice to look back and collect photos for this blog because it reminds me of all the fun that happened between the stress.  To start … doctors and meds ..  meds and doctors.  Pans has been a rough journey for Glory but it seems she is in a good spot at the moment.  Her ability to use her legs consistently has returned. She can now again walk down stairs and doesn't need a wheel chair or to stop activities because her legs 'are giving out' as she puts it.  Thankful to her immunologist and the chiropractor.





 Do most kids look like this at the doctor?! What a kid she is.

 loves the waiting room fish
 a lot of meds for a little kid...and this isn't even all the vitamins 
(thank goodness we taught her to swallow pills using a game with mike n ikes)
 the long ride to new brunswick in crazy traffic to st peters hospital is especially tough for her
 but she does enjoy the waiting room video games
Through it all she is such a champ !



Beyond all the doctors … the rest of our life has been full of the following these past few months:



Helping our foster kitties



 learning to prepare and give meds
 Spreading their pictures around town
 waiting in the rain for their free clinic rabies shots
 bringing them to adoption events (they don't like that part)



They havn't been adopted yet but we do have someone interested who we spoke on the phone with a couple days ago *good luck adoption vibes for Romeo and Juliet*



Karate



Glory graduated from special needs Karate and got a medal ! 




 Halloween fun
























Working on those worries








Day out at the natural sciences museum with daddy













Dolphin Cruise! and A/C aquarium
first time on a boat!






 We saw so so so so many dolphins .. i'll try to upload video later





Barton Xmas set up












First time fishing !






New Art class (2 Thursdays a month)




Book Reader
(due to Glory's condition and brain injury causing dyslexia
and other reading problems she was set up with a special
book reader for kids with disabilities)






Dragon love and book love
(when your homeschooled kid loves everything dragons and finds
dragon books she falls in love with... you buy them of course..
even if you will have to be the one reading them all to her)









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Glory's Words (in order of when spoken and constantly used)

Glory's Words (in order of when spoken and constantly used)

1. 'Dada' (3 months)
2. 'Mama' (4 months)
3. 'Kitty' (7 months)
4. 'Doggie' (8 months)
5. 'Baba' -bottle- (8 months)
6. 'uh oh' - when dropping something (or throwing something :)
7. 'No no no no' -when about to do something she knows she's not supposed to do- (9 months)
8. Hot (9 months)
9. 'This?' -what is this?- (10 months)
10. 'That' - i want that- (10 months)
11. 'mooooohh' - Elmo from sesame street (10 months)
12. 'Aeeyyy' - Abby from sesame street (11 months)
13. 'Ert' - Bert from sesame street (11 months)
14. 'Ernie' - from sesame street (1 year)
15. 'Weeee' - thanks to little people playground
16. 'Block' - building blocks
17. 'Fish' - because of a picture book
18. 'Tree' - because of a trip to the park
19. 'Cook' - (13 months)
20. 'Cup'
21. 'look kittie !'
22. 'Bath'
23. 'Kiss'
24. 'ook' - Book (she can't say the letter 'b')
25. 'Ducky' (15 months)
26. 'Coke' - when pointing to my can of soda
27. 'touch that?' - when pointing to the painting in the living room that we lift her up and let her touch.
28. 'No' (while shaking her head no) -when she doesn't want to do something or doesn't like something or is done eating or drinking
29. 'Woo Woo' (poop)
30. 'Yeah' (yes)
31. 'Clock'
32. 'I' (for 'I love you through and through' her favorite book)
33. 'Froggie' (16 months)
34. 'Wow!'
35. 'Giraffe'
36. 'Wash'
37. 'Yucky'
38. 'Horsey'
39. 'Eyes'
40. 'Rock'
41. 'Nice Kitty'
42. 'Mouse'
43. 'Hair'
44. 'Nose'
45. 'Mouth'
46. 'Cookie' 17 months
47. 'Monkey'
48. 'Elephant'
49. 'Kiss'
50. 'Alligator' (thanks to starfall)
51. 'Cheese'
52. 'Hi' (Hiiieeeey! LOL)
53. 'Nice' (gentle - after being told to 'be nice' ie don't hit)
54. 'Oh No!'
55. 'Splash!' (thanks to little people bath bar)
56. 'Dolphin' ("")
57. 'Pocoyo'
58. 'Bye Bye Dada'
59. 'No No No Bad Kitty!'
60. 'Arrrggh' (like a pirate - thanks to backyardigans)
61. 'Blues Clues'
62. 'My Paci!' (Pacifier)
63. 'Cool!'
64. ' A Clue ! A Clue!' (from blues clues -when she saw a blue paw print on the tag for her unicorn)
65.'Good dog woof!' (after Ubu sit at the end of family ties lol)
66. First song with actual words 'Blues cluuuuuues Blues clues'
67. 'Ooooo wow cool!!!' 18 months
68. 'Color?' (when she wants her crayons)
69. 'Chair'
70. 'Turtle' (blues turtle Torqoise)
71. 'A' (the letter)
72. 'Cheek' (learning names of body parts)
73. 'Doll'
74. 'B' (the letter)
75. 'Ball'
76. 'C' (the letter)
77. 'D' (the letter)
78. 'E' (the letter)
79. 'Juice'
80. 'Ooooooh wow!! Look!!!! Look !!!' (while pointing wildly at something she likes)
81. 'five?' (as in gimme five) :)
82. 'wazzzat?' ('what's that?')
83. 'Here ya go' (when handing us something)
84. 'Ostrich' ! (wow! thank you little people a-z zoo)
85. 'what's this?'
86. 'Oscar the grouch' (double wow! playing with her Oscar the grouch doll and she said 'what's this?' lol so i told her and now she knows !)
87. 'Big Horsey'
88. 'Dinasaur!'
89. 'Bye Bye See ya later' (19 months)
90. A reAffirmed Passion for saying the word 'No!' to just about everything.
91. The whole Alphabet !! (i'm not going to list each letter individually lol including their sounds!)
92. 'Blue'
93. 'Stop!'
94. 'Go!'
95. 'Igloo' (thanks to Starfall.com)
96. 'Car'
97. 'Shoes'
98. 'Apple!' (Finally! lol)
99. 'Yes!'
100. 'Thank You.' :) my favorite so far
101. 'Up'
102. 'Down'
103. 'On'
104. 'Off'
105. 'Nasty!' lol
106. 'Yucky'
107. 'Pig'
108. 'Cow'
109. 'Popcorn'
110. 'Girl'
111. 'Yellow'
112. 'Red'
113. 'Pink'
114. 'Green'
115 'Purple'
116. 'Black'
117. 'White'
stopped counting :)