We're Baaaaaaack!

Holy cow what a month it has been!  A little case of bronchitis turned into a weekend in the hospital!  Good news is that everyone is seemingly back to normal.  Bad news is ...... well I guess there really isn't any bad news.  I don't even remember February starting and here it is half way over.  We do have a big birthday coming up in our house though....M is turning 7 on the 26th!  It seems impossible, I don't feel like 7 years have passed since the day I gave birth to a ginormous baby girl.  But it has, and if her attitude is any indication of how the next several years will be then we are in for a fun ride!  Don't get me wrong, she is an amazing child; too smart for her own good, a fantastic big sister, and very loving....BUT she tells me day in and day out that she wants to be a teenager.  And that means she acts like one half of the time. 

K is doing well.  His hearing and speech evaluations both went fine.  He's not really showing any major signs of being behind developmentally, but we do  need to work on his vocabulary and we were given some great advice.  Jason and I both agree that God made him as freaking cute as he is for a reason.  Jason calls it his defense mechanism.  He can act like the biggest turd one minute, but the next minute he is doing something so cute that you forget about the bruise you have from having a toy car launched at your head.  Exhibit A:

A New Year....A New Look!

How does it look?  I got notification that the site I got my designs from was changing, along with the code.  I figured I might as well change it up, since I had to adjust all of my code anyway.  It is very typical of me, if you know me personally you will know that I like to change and rearrange things.  Come to my house today and then again next week, and most likely our furniture will be moved.  I'm not sure what a therapist would say that this says about me however.  Hmmm.  Well anyway, I have some upcoming posts planned regarding my participation in Live Healthy Iowa, some new blogs to check out, and obviously more photos of my kids.  Duh.

Mazie

A few friends were talking today about the story of our Nativity and it really got me thinking about the story of our cat.  By the way, if you haven't heard already, she is going to be in next year's I Can Has Cheezburger calendar!  After her appearance in their How To Take  Over the World book, they liked the picture enough to add it to the calendar.  And after you read the story, the calendar will be even more exciting!

When Jason and I were dating, he go the idea to get me a cat for Valentine's Day.  At the time we thought it was going to be practice for having a kid (HAHA!!)  We went to a local animal shelter to find a cat to adopt.  The only thing we knew going in was that we didn't want a kitten since it would be more work (because when you are practicing for having kids, it's highly practical to get one that is already trained, right?)  They led us into a room full of cats and we started looking around.  We saw a few adorable ones and they let them out of their cages for us to pet.  Most of them just wandered around aimlessly.  Jason sat down in a chair next  to the cages to pet one of the cats.  As he was sitting there, a nearby cat reached out of it's cage and started to gently paw at him.  We thought it was funny, again because most of the other cats could care less that we were even there.  After a few more minutes of this, we asked to have that cat taken out for us to look at.  The cat immediately jumped on Jason's lap and cuddled up to him.  It was adorable!  Being that it was a Calico cat, he remembered something his grandmother had told him.  He was always very close to his grandma and