Bella's Princess Songs

Our little peanut loves to dress up and make up songs, I LOVE her imagination, it is truly endless.

3 + 1 = One Happy Family

It's been a while since I have posted, sorry for the absence, I hope to get back into this again.

We've had a change in our household, a major change! My 17 year old nephew Zachary John Lawrence Koch moved into our house on Feb. 5th. We are hoping he will be truly happy with us and enjoy his time before he graduates high school in May and departs for the Marines in August.

I am blessed to have 98% support and only 2% very hard and negative non-support, thankfully for me it is very easy to push the negativity to the side and focus on what is truly important, my family and loving and supporting my nephew.

It has only been a week and Zach already blends in perfectly, he is extremely polite and respectful. Doesn't bat an eye at the chores he is given and he truly enjoys playing with Bella. If only he didn't have as many clothes as his Aunt Steph ;) We don't have a dresser for him yet so poor Zach has his clothes in garbage bags on the floor of his room. Hopefully I will acquire a decent used dresser soon!

I'm just very proud of Kyle and myself, it feels as though this was meant to be. Kyle started his new job at Erb's Technology, which has put us in a great spot and Zach couldn't have reached out to us for help at a better time.

Having a teenager in the house will be interesting I'm sure, I'm just so thankful for this extra bonding time I get with my nephew before he leaves for the Marines and grows into the amazing man I know he will become.

Wonders of the Ear

Today Bella had a check up for the tubes in her ears. We've been putting in drops once a month to help them come out. Those little guys were still in there today and our doctor wanted to get some of the wax out to help them come out.

Bella was leery of this because of the little scissor like tool Bridgette was going to use. She did amazing for the first ear, it was the ear that had the bleeding problem before. I was holding Bella's hand and Bridgette was working on it, Bridgette said "oh my, just wait until you see what I pull out of here." She pulled out what looked like a plug the size of a big pill, it was seriously huge!!! Totally gross, she had to break it up to find the tube inside of it all. Bella was a little freaked but did amazing, it took some coaxing to get her to let Bridgette do the left ear but in the end we did it and got the second tube out.

Now Bella is tube free and it was our last appointment with Bridgette, we will miss her, she is so wonderful!! Bella can now hear properly, seriously I feel like such a bad mom. She has probably been unable to hear out of her right ear well for a while now. It just occurred to me that she always sat with one ear cocked towards the tv when she watches it, now I know why. At least her hearing will be great now :)

So proud of my big girl, she got TWO stickers for being such a champ :)

Snow Angels