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10 on Tuesday

We took our first family vacay the first weekend on March. We went to Gatlinburg/Knoxville for my old college buddy Jon's birthday. We arrived on Sunday and left that following Tuesday. It was just long enough. We took the kids to the Ripley's Aquarium up there and they just loved seeing all of the fish. Like a goob, I left my memory card OUT of the camera and didn't realize it until we got out tickets and what not. Thankfully and not so much the gift shop had one. Granted I really hated paying $31 for a 2gb memory card but it was worth it.

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3. I've slowly started working on the kids birthday's. I've gotten a date picked out and some other smaller things worked out. I really can't believe that they are going to be 3 and 2! It makes me sad at how fast time has flown.
4. Yesterday marked the 1 year anniversary of Brayden's dog attack. I'm thankful every day that I have my little boy to love on and smother with kisses. His scars have healed up nicely and those on his head have given him the wonky-est cowlick ever. It's a pain to cut but just minor than what it could be.
5. I have everything needed for the kids for Easter. Which is a major plus for me! Brayden's outfit should be here tomorrow and Aslynn's is hanging up waiting. Hopefully it will be nice this year and I'll be able to take some good pictures of them.
6. I've been crocheting odds and ends of things as well as their blankets. I've got a bunch of dishcloths and hot pads waiting for me to sew the ends in and give them to their respective owners.
   
7. I can only really think of 6 so the rest will be pictures. :D
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1. This was a road sign in Sevierville where they are currently doing road construction.

Obstacles

Many of you know that we have been working over the past 6 months with Brayden and speech therapy. We also for the past 6 months have had an audiology appointment for him. That was Feb 16th and needless to say we didn't get confirmed answers. We just got more theories. The audiologist pretty much said that Brayden has conductive hearing loss in both ears. But what she couldn't answer was how come or why. She guessed that Brayden, from the looks of his ears had a double ear infection, which he may have had, but that doesn't change anything because his hearing has been the same regardless of one, two or no infections. Currently Brayden has to hear things at 25% higher of decibel volume. She said we should treat the infections if there are, she actually stated something different that has escaped me and we could have it retested in 2 months to make sure the infection is indeed gone or we could seek the opinion of an ENT.

So, devestated none the less, I called his Ped. to get a referral for an ENT. Well she called back and said that she would like to check Brayden over just to make sure but the soonest appointment was a week out. No biggie, I didn't care because Brayden tells us when his ears hurt and he had been the same Brayden and never did his normal ear infection clues, so I didn't believe he had one or two even.

Our main reason for seeking the opinion of the ENT is to see what he/she thinks would be our best option. If tubes are that route, so be it. If tubes aren't then I want answer and help on how to allow my child to hear and speak to me.

We currently are waiting to hear from the ENT's office about an appointment.

I just need answers because right now is the time for Brayden to learn so much. Speech Therapy isn't doing him any good...out of the past 2 months the only thing he has gotten out of it is the sign for more and he really doesn't do that. What.the.f*ck.

It doesn't help, and I know she can't help it bless her heart, that Aslynn is little Miss Chatterbox with her Momma, thank you, love you, cup, please, bye, hi, night night, nummy, granna, mimi, ect.

I've wished for answers for so long and now I'm starting to think that there are no answers except that he can't hear all that well. If that is the answer then so be it I just want to know for sure, 100% for sure.

Catching up

Honestly the only excuse I have for being MIA in the blogospehere is that I have been submerged in Brayden's blanket. Yes, I said Brayden's. Aslynn's well, for right now is sitting in two piles, waiting for more pieces to be completed and for the completed ones to be blocked.

Brayden's has given me more of a challenge and I love it. I actually checked out from the library Jan Eaton's book 200 Crochet Blocks. I love love love this book, and I checked it out because I couldn't find it anywhere except online. Well, now I have found it at Michael's but I am going to wait to buy it, because this book is a must have!

When I get my pictures on my laptop, I'll post current pictures of both blankets.

And yes, I said laptop. We broke down and bought two new HP laptops, 1) since are desktop was on its last leg anyway and 2) because with Brad leaving soon to go to school to get his CDL its a form of communication for the both of us.

Most of my time though lately has been either cleaning and taking care of the kiddos or crocheting. I actually even took a break from both blankets and starting working on other things. :D I won't divulge just yet since part of what I am working on is for both my mom and Monica. Nothing too big, just an aching to work with another type of yarn and to test my skills. BTW, I absolutely love working with Cotton yarn. LOVE IT!!

I did get a new book for Valentine's day. It's called Beyond-the-Square Crochet Motifs by Edie Eckman. I am loving that book and cannot wait to get my hook going on some of those patterns.

I will, though post pictures when I am done and they have gotten theirs.

I'm starting to think that Hell has frozen too. I live in Alabama. And I will be damned if before this past year I could count on all my fingers and toes how many times it has snowed since I was a wee one. Now, 2010 is a different story. In just the past 2 months, it has snowed 5 times. That isn't normal here. People run out and clean the stores of milk,eggs and bread. WTF are they going to live off of French Toast if they get snowed in?? I'm not complaining, I love the snow, I honestly wish it would snow like it does back in Michigan.


Other than that not much. Brayden has his hearing tested tomorrow, the 16th, to see if he needs tubes and if that is indeed is what is causing his delay in speech. We have his meeting with the school system on March 3rd for Pre-school for the Head Start program. And we will start his transistion from his at home services to the pre-school program and in the fall he will start Pre-school!

Aslynn is Aslynn. We've given her paci's for naptime and bed because her two fingers that she sucks on could use a break. She sucks on the so much that they are cracked and everything. She picked out her own pacis and doesn't mind them one bit.

Aslynn's blanket

Her blanket is coming along rather nicely if I do say so myself :D I have 16 hexagons finished as of right now. With the rate I am going, it will be done before her birthday so I decided that I will make Brayden a different blanket for his birthday as well. Here are pictures of the first 5 hexagons that I made. They are all some sort of color pattern using the same 5 colors.

A close-up of one of the hexagons. The yarn I got at Hobby Lobby and is called something like " I love this yarn!" It it super soft and I love it.

A picture of the first 5 that I did.

I'm rather proud of myself, I'm now able to produce the rounds rather quickly and am getting better and it as time goes on.

Wordless Wednesday

Granny-ing along

Make any sense?

I'm crocheting. Again. After a 5 year hiatus. The first time was a horrible attempt and looked nothing like what I wanted. And it was just a scarf. I had previously fed my scarf addiction by knitting with a loom, which I loved and could quickly spit out a scarf in no time flat. Aslynn and I both have quite a few, lol.


So I got a wild hair and decided to trying and figure out what I was doing wrong. Well, long story short, I figured it out and even mastered a few other things to become rather proud of myself.


So, you may ask what is this granny-ing along....Granny Squares. Fell in love with them at first glance. They can be colorful! Which if you know me that is just well ME! And they can be any size, shape, pattern. They don't have to be square. They can have flowers in the middle, ect. The possibilities are endless.





So I have taken it upon myself, to spend my time, I guess, making Aslynn a Granny square blanket. I have chosen white, peacock blue, pink, lime green and purple. I wil be posting pictures and blogging as I go along, so that you can see my progress as well. I decided that I wouldn't make her a traditional square blanket. I am going to make her a blanket using a 6-sided granny square at which I found the pattern that Crochet Mania. She also has tutorials of each of her patterns on youtube, which has helped my out rather immensly.