Avery's Adventure: January 2019

We hope you all had a great Christmas! Time seems to be flying and it seems to be getting more difficult to update these posts but I am going to try to keep at it. I am going to try to make the posts smaller but update it more frequently so it isn't such a big task adding all the pictures, etc.

Christmas was busy but great. Christmas Eve we went to my sister's house and celebrated with her family. Then on Christmas morning the girls woke up and saw their Barbie Dream House and didn't want to open any other presents, even when my parents came over with more gifts. We had Christmas dinner at Tim's parents and then celebrated exchanging gifts with his family. We had a great time. The girls got so many cool things. They also loved sliding down Grandma and Grandpa Svitak's stairs. Avery only had one shut down, when it was her turn to open a gift and everyone was saying her name. I am happy that she seems to be less shy, especially around her family.

Avery had an appointment with ENT and Audiology in November. They did the usual test where she wears headphones and when she hears a sound, she is supposed to throw a ball in a basket. She scored how she normally scores on that. Since she was being cooperative, they were able to use bone conduction headset and do some testing. She scored really really well on that. That means that the nerve in her ear is not damaged, they think she just has conductive hearing loss. When the sound has to travel through her ear canal, that is when she has trouble. Either she has fluid in her ear or the insides of her ears developed abnormally/misshapen and that is blocking the sound from traveling. When she wears the bone conduction headphones, the sound doesn't have to travel through the ear canal so she can hear great. They think she is a good candidate for a bone conduction hearing aid headband so we are going to get fitted for that at the end of January. We saw ENT and her left tube is still in and her right tube was sitting in the ear canal. He tried to pull it out but was having difficulty and Avery started getting upset so he said it wasn't worth the hassle. That it will eventually fall out on its own.

At the beginning of December we went to take the girls to get their picture with Santa. Avery did SOOOOO good. I was so proud of her. Reagan on the other hand started screaming when we set her down so we were all in the picture again this year. I needed to come up with a somewhat funny Christmas card like we do every year so we just used the Santa pic (see below).

For New Years Eve, we just stayed in. The girls took a bath with their new bubble maker. it works really well. My drinking got out of hand in the past so I am no longer drinking. Thank you to our families that really helped out during that time. We couldn't have done it without you. We love you!

We celebrated NYE with sparkling grape juice and fancy (plastic) glasses. LOL. We hope you all have a great 2019!

me and my bff

Fun at the library

Reagan's hair is so curly!

Waiting for my ENT and Audiology appointment

Thanks for the felt Christmas tree Auntie L!

I made a Countdown to Christmas chain at school

Putting ornaments on the tree

Reagan doesn't like to wear pants

Momma and Daddy finally got around to making our annual hand print stones

How cute are we?!

Reagan was NOT a fan of Santa claus

but she is a fan of Wall to Wall Plumbing

Happy St. Nicks Day!

Reagan wasn't feeling well and kept coughing and she decided one sucker wasn't enough

Momma says I need to get my hair cut. I beg to differ

I may or may not have fallen asleep like this

Momma and Joe

Us and Buddy

I made these gifts for my Mom and Dad at school

I was not a fan of the Christmas program at daycare, but at least I didn't hind my face like last year. Maybe next year I will surprise people and do a hand motion or two