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ONE YEAR! ONE YEAR! ONE YEAR!

Matthew has been with us, ONE WHOLE YEAR! HALLELUJAH! What a wonderful year it has been too. A son.......Mrs. Kooky? You have a son! That is what our family coordinator said to me on the phone over a year ago. I was over the moon! I had to tell Daddy Crazy IMMEDIATELY! And now look!!! 3 years old and flourishing! I wish his real parents could see him now. PERFECT in the sight of God! Perfect in our eyes! His cleft palate is fixed. His cleft lip is fixed. His speech is getting better and better every single day............SPEAKING of..........he can now say PEE PEE! (no more hee hee, typical for a cleft child) YOU talk about over the moon. I just tried to see if he could have a P sound. And he does!!!!!

He will start speech the week of March 10. Matthew is going to HIGH SCHOOL! hehehe No, really, he will be our first high schooler. His speech therapist is at our local high school and apparently, she is the BEST therapist and comes highly recommended in our county.

We are grateful! Thank you Lord!

Speaking of being thankful and grateful? MY NEW JOB! OH WOW! You talk about folks who love me. Truly care about me. GO TO BAT FOR ME!!!!!! My new supervisor is a lady who says please and thank you. She takes the time to truly teach me new things and talk with me with respect and treats me very good. So do the rest of the folks in the office. The lady who is teaching me is so awesome! She talks with me. Shows me things. Likes the questions I ask. (I think about all aspects of the work, not just the present, here and now stuff.) I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT! Did I say that I liked it?! Just one bummer thing..............

my old office put my computer in storage for me so that I didn't have a computer. Then I get it today and my NICE keyboard is gone. My VERY, VERY nice laser mouse is GONE! And the BEST kicker?!?!?! They trashed, let me say that again, they trashed my equalizer, headphone adaptable speakers!!!! Can you say, what?!?! Yep. They did.

My new office is trying to get me a better keyboard and mouse. The mouse that they gave me is one of those rollie ball things that doesn't move and already fell apart twice already since it was put in! *oy*

Well, tomorrow is THEE day! We celebrate Matthew's GOTCHA DAY! And do you know what my son wants for dinner?! DUH! PIZZA! hehehe.....*s* I asked him what about Chinese food and he said, NOPE. Go figure!! He's Italian at heart! ;o)

That's it for now..........
Momma Kooky

What a Saturday!

Ok, now keep in mind, I haven't done this in well? A LONG TIME! *thinking* It's been since 1998, maybe? I use to go shopping in the fall, and take $100 and just buy some new clothes. Being a "big girl" our clothes cost a bit more. Even on the clearance racks and sale racks, it's expensive. Well, Saturday, the best hubby in the world gave me free reign to BUY NEW CLOTHES for my new job! Oh did I have fun!

New shoes! New makeup! New dress pants! New shirts that are BEYOND beautiful!! I got so many things. Mostly all of it was on sale or on the clearance racks! OH, THE BEST PART?!?!?! I found a pair of jeans! I haven't bought jeans in YEARS! I was actually measured for my jeans. They fit like a glove and they are bootcut! I look taller in them!!!! I like that.

I had so much fun. I know it wasn't so much fun for the hubby and the kids, but hey, they found a playground in the middle of the mall and had at it!! Sears and Kohls had the best stuff.

I'm so excited to be in my FINAL week at my old office! I'm so wanting to just dive right into my new job! I already know who my branch chief is, who will help train me, possibly keeping my AWS day, where I sit.............oh wow!!! HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY!

I'm doing well in my Calculus class. It's hard. No doubt about that. The Crazy daddy is doing well in his Philosophy class and his College Algebra class. So far, so good with us all.

This Thursday, we find out about Matthew's IEP from the county and what school he will attend. He's getting help!!! Thank God!

Momma Kooky

It's OFFICIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This unspoken prayer request has been answered and answered in a HUGE way!!! I went for 2 job interviews last week and I got a call yesterday (about 2:45pm) asking me if I would take one. Um, let me see, DUH! YES! YES! YES!

We are so darn happy! You have no clue! It will be a nice and refreshing change and start to something good, you know?! I've been doing the same thing at work for over 14 years!!!! That's a long time.

REJOICE with us, because we are over the moon!!! Hey, you know the hubby is happy when he says, "you need to go shopping, right?" OH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Momma Kooky

Happy Valentine's Day!!!!

It's that lovely time of the year! My husband and I snuck off to a VERY cozy Italian place and had such a lovely lunch/dinner. It was nice. I love their food. Not like Carrabbas, mind you, but close.

Today we had our 2nd meeting at ChildFind. (ChildFind is the counties equivalent of special services for children who need it.) Matthew has been tested, evaluated and we got the results today. We weren't terribly surprised. He surpassed all expectations in the Cognitive thinking and intellect. Layman's terms? HE'S SMART as a whip scoring HIGHER than alot of American kids!!!!

On the Language side? Expressive Language to be exact.....he didn't pass not one thing. Not one. Which is where we knew he needs help. He scored well below average and well below most American children.

End result? He WILL receive special services from the county at one of the public schools. He will receive speech and possibly some hearing impaired help. We need to find out if this hearing loss is permanent, if it's reversible, does he need a hearing aid? Things like this. We will see his ENT on March 10th. We should hopefully know more than.

We had a long talk with the director of his daycare. They will begin to implement some "hearing impaired" things that they can do to ease Matthew's learning. (ie, make him sit upfront, specific instructions geared towards him only, speaking up, etc.) We were informed that this is the only child they have ever had with hearing impairedness. (is that a word?)

We will look into the means of the medical aspect of the hearing to see what can be done. As well as the non-medical also. Until then? We keep doing what we are doing.

Momma Kooky

Friday's new hearing test..............

Well, we knew (and were told) that even with Matthew's new ear tubes in his ears, he may have a problem. Friday it was confirmed. The audiologist with Calvert County did more hearing tests and Matthew could not hear in the low range and some in the mid range! I thought for sure he'd be ok and hear everything. I'm hearing all these sounds and trying not to "make" him look (unless he hears them) and darned if he didn't hear ANY OF IT! I just wanted to cry! Literally!

The audiologist told us to check into a medical reason why he cannot hear as well as he should be. We will do that with Dr. Pena, ASAP! We are trying to get an appointment with her as you read this!!

That was a bummer, to say the least. She did tell me that Matthew's tubes in his ears are a green color. I said, "infection green? or green, green!" She just started laughing and said green, green. (Hey, if she only knew how many infections this child's had, she wouldn't have laughed!)

Next up? We see Dr. Murthy on Wednesday. Hopefully Matthew's "new nose" has stayed in place and is doing what it should and everything is clearing up and healing up nicely!!

Everyone is just about back to "normal". Momma Kooky still has an OCTAVE lower register in the voice, but is ok. (Ecstatic now that she knows she got a high B+ on her Calculus quiz! Thank you Lord!)

Crazy Daddy? He's still sick. Never went to the doctor. STUBBORN as a mule!! ;o)

Hey, say a prayer for an "unspoken" prayer request for Momma Kooky. I'd appreciate it.

Ok, Time to go. Nose is running and my feet DON'T stink. So.............until later.

Update

It's Wednesday and Matthew continues to do well. I just gave his eardrops to him and he just about kicked me in the face. You have to wonder if these things work or just cause pain! Other than that, his "glue" sutures are just starting to fall off. Which is a VERY GOOD thing because he can't eat too well with the one that is on his top lip but the one that is in between his nose and lip is fine.

Matthew's cough is better. We stopped tylenol because his temperature has been normal. Mom and Dad though?! We are both sick as I don't know what. Momma went to the Urgent Care last night and was diagnosed with Bronchitis/just about pneumonia. A fever of 101.8 and just having a sugar level that isn't normal (that's why they took me in so fast). Some xrays later, one albuterol treatment for 20 minutes and I was breathing normal again! Thank God!

Crazy Daddy? Well, he decided not to go to the Urgent Care. He's still suffering. I'm wondering if he will go tonight.

Becca is the only one not sick! Trying to keep her healthy and away from everyone else is quite the challenge!

Matthew goes for a follow up with Dr. Murthy next week. A hearing test Friday and back to Children's in about 7 weeks to see Dr. Pena (ENT).

Momma Kooky