Happy Hanukkah~Merry Christmas~Happy New Year

Boy in a blink of an eye the holidays are over. This year the beans didn't seem interested at all in Santa or opening gifts. It took me weeks to get all the gifts wrapped and they didn't open not one!!!Since most of you know Marc is jewish so we decided to do Hanukkah with the kids as well as Christmas. I did the 8 nights of gifts with the kids but they were more interested in everything else except for the gifts. We had Christmas Eve at our house but that awful stomach virus decided to show its face the morning of Christmas Eve. My little monkey boy puked all over me a few times during the day and by the time our guests arrived I was the one doing the puking. Christmas day we went to Aunt Dots for dinner and on the way home in the car Gabby decided to barf all over..ughh the car smelt so bad and poor Arianna was stuck in the back row of the minivan with Gabby and she made a face like she was going to throw up too. On a better note everyone got it except for Arianna and Marc and we are all feeling better. My little cousin Nicole also came up to visit and spent the night with us. As far as New Years Eve we spent it at home and fell asleep before the ball dropped. These kids kick my butt and I can't stay up late anymore..lol..or is it that I am getting old and about to turn 31???No i didnt make any New Years resolutions, I mean honestly what for?? Year after year i make the same ones and I don't do nothing about them. What I will say is 2008 was an amazing year for me i was fortunate enough to be a stay at mommy which at times I wanted to pull my hair out but come bed time every night it is all worth it...i have watched my premiees turn into 3 healthy little people with 3 very different personalities which after everything I went through to conceive these miracles I never imagined being able to spend the last year the way I did.

During the past few weeks I had the children evaluated by Early Intervention. The team decided that Karl and Arianna need specialist for Speech, Special Ed (which consists of playing with toys properly, keeping the children's attention while reading a book, etc) and Occupational Therapy (which is for fine motor skills) . Gabriella needs Speech and Occupational Therapy. On Jan 8th we have to go in front of a board to see what they approve us for in the way of how many visits a week and how long overall. I am happy the kids are going to receive 1 on 1 time by trained professionals but at the same time it makes me sad to know my children are behind. I guess just being a mother you don't want to hear that even though I rather it get fixed now. I will keep everyone posted on our progress.

Moving along to the beans.....Gabby is the only one taking steps the other 2 rather crawl or hold on to something to get from one place to another. Arianna has been climbing on to her toys to escape baby jail. All 3 of them have learned the word thank you but they will only say it if you give them a cookie :) Mr Karl has been picking up the remote control, cell phones, house phone and toys holding them to his ear and saying Hello...lol....ummm he definitely takes after his father. For Christmas we bought them the new Elmo Live and when he falls down elmo says can you help elmo up please.....the kids keep knocking him down and picking him up they love playing with him. Tonight for the first time I gave them the pizza crust to chew on I had no idea those little teeth they have could devour the crust so quickly without anyone choking.

Before I finish up here I just wanted to ask everyone reading my blog to keep a special little girl in your prayers..She is a family friend and grew up with my in laws, her daughter Morgan is a twin and she is only 2 1/2yrs old and has cancer. Here is her webpage http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/morgantoth