Here's Thomas

Made a few calls for dad, brought him the base board and trim and even helped shoot in a few nails. A boy in his glory!!!

Hard At Work

The Before: (What a Mess!!!!!!) And The After: Much better, but it is time for a new bedroom suite!

This past week flashed before my eyes. Shawn took most of last week off of work. There was so many unfinished things that needed to be done around the house before we could let potential buyers look at it. We finally have our bedroom renovated after living in our home for 5 years. We put in a new window, painted the ceiling and walls, installed a new window ceil, baseboard and trim. That alone was a lot of work.

Julia's Art Work

My daughter Julia started taking an art class in September of last year. Her class is for one hour, once a week and every week she brings home a new masterpiece that I can't believe she could make in 1 hour. (I know I'm bragging a little but I can't help myself.) She is the youngest in her class because her dance schedule only allows her to go in the 8 to 10 year old class and she is 7. Anyways here are her beautiful art pieces... This top picture was her 1st week of class picture back in September.
The second picture is a castle made with acrylic paint. This was her first time ever using acrylic paint. (Jan.'07)
This is my favorite picture to date. She did this just today and it's hard to she but she used some type of salt or sand mixed in with the water colors. This one I'm going to frame.
OK my bragging session is finished!

Our House is on the Market!

Shawn is off to an interview, in Kelowna at Alpine Aerotech. It would be so nice if he got an in town job to work at. The only thing is it has to be the right wage price (fingers crossed). I also sent 7 boxes (mostly seasonal kitchen items and kids toys) with him to take up to my parents lake house. The moving process is already in affect. Yesterday Jen and her father came over and we have officially put our house on the market. Everything feels like it is happening so fast.

Anyways back to today, Rosalia (Thomas's developmental specialist) came over to see him for the first time. At first he was a little uneasy about her. (Lately he has had so many people pick at and hurt him, he doesn't know who to trust.) The first toy she brought out was a big blue bouncy ball and Tom was her instant new best friend. Her job is to see where is is lacking in development and his only area of concern is his speech. So that was nice not to have any new surprises. She is working with his speech therapist, (who we see tomorrow) and we will all be working together to teach Thomas sign language. Rosalia thinks that will be the best route for Thomas. He catches on really quick to it. So besides the speech problem he is doing great. (I already knew that he was a smart cookie!) So that's my weekly update.

What's Goin' On in Shanyville

The King house is as busy as usual and Thomas is doing really well since his surgery 1 week ago. His eyes are almost all healed up and today he goes for a hearing test. I'm sure everything will go well. I think that the tubes in the ears did the trick.
Anyways in other news, our plans for our new home were accepted and my father will be breaking ground either march 1st (if the weather gets better) or near the end of march. The sooner, the better.I've already registered the kids into their new schools and in May I can sign them up for a dance class each. Next year they are only taking piano lessons, ONE dance class and canskate one day per week. This year has been just too crazy with two girls dancing. I just can't keep up with everything. I babysit 5 other kids besides my own 3, the girls do 5 dance classes each, drama and piano and Thomas has a doctors apt. every week. Then cooking and cleaning on top of that. Moving will be good for me. I need to just chill and enjoy my life instead of making it a zoo.

My Tough Little Boy!

Yesterday was the big day Thomas had surgery on both of his eyes and both of his ears. He was a little nervous when we first got to the hospital and he hated his hospital gown. We went into a waiting area where Thomas could play with some toys and watch a movie but instead he tryed to escape from the hospital at least 5 or 6 times. So the nurses ended up sedating him and 20 minutes later he was in surgery. When I took him in the operating room he was so out of it and was singing happy birthday to me. He was such a brave little guy. Both surgeries were fast, in total maybe an hour long. When the nurses woke him up he was very cranky but he didn't get sick from the anesthetics. We got home from the hospital around 2pm and Tom was off to nap time. When he got up from his nap he acted like nothing had ever happened. He has been back to his old self and only now has to learn to use his glasses to see better.

Oh the Things That Come Out of Kailey's Mouth!

Last Thursday we had sushi for dinner. I took the girls to go pick up the food. As we are sitting in the restaurant, directly in front of us was the man making our food. Kailey looks at me with a serious look and says "So mom are these people Chinese." My face turned about 10 shades of red and I told her "shhhhhhh, I'll talk to you later." She then gets louder and says it again. Well the cook just starts laughing out loud and then I start laughing. I end up telling her quickly "sushi is Japanese, so this man is probably Japanese." And that was the end of that. Kids always have perfect timing to embarrass their parents. (She keeps me humble on a daily basis.)

My Bucket of Tricks

This post is for anyone who has a frustrated 1 or 2 year old. Everyday when I'm cleaning the house or just need a break from my boy, I bring out his special bucket of toys. This give him something to do while I'm getting things done. Every week or so I change up some of the toys so that there is always something new for him to play with.
This has helped alot with Thomas's behavior problems. I find that we don't have nearly as many melt downs.