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Can someone please take my 3 yr old and teach her to listen then given her back? Kirsten's school has requested that we have Kirsten "tested". When I called and asked why the daycare owner informed me that Kirsten is not listening and yells and acts disruptively when placed in the time out chair. She has been having issues listening at home but nothing that I would call extreme. Of course after that info came home from school that same evening I noticed a change in her attitude and she started exhibited what they were seeing at school. I usually send her to her room and tell her she must sit on her bed, calm down and stop fussing or crying before she comes out. She usually takes anywhere from a few seconds to a minute to do that and then she's brand new again. School is concerned whether or not these are behaviors she can control or not. She also started stuttering a times about a month ago. Her main problem with the stuttering is "I" so she started saying "Kirsten" instead. This weekend she was trying to start a sentence with When and after ten attempts and only getting as far was "Wh..". She very frustratingly said, "I can't say what I need to say, I can't do anything". My heart just broke when I heard that. She is an extremely smart girl and excels at learning new things. Her daycare has even confirmed they don't think her issues have anything to do with her intelligence and ability to learn. So I put a call in to the Leon County School Board on Thursday and I'm still awaiting a call back to get her tested to see if we are missing something or if she may do better in a different type of school. I really wonder whether part of her behavior is her getting bored with things at school since she picks up things really fast. That of course doesn't explain the stuttering. The behavior thing is so weird because it seems like at home she changed over night. Daycare did mention they are having to separate her from the other children during some strutured times like coming in and handwashing because otherwise she runs around the room and is very disruptive which doesn't allow the teachers to get things done. I really just want to know what is going on and how we can help her get back to being nice Kirsten.

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Pic and LO of Kirsten from Today

I did a Speed Scrap today with Christie Lemmons @ EnchantedStudioscraps.com. I took this pic today :)

Journaling: You love to help with chores. We have yetto assign you your very own chores though that will be coming soon. Today you were helping Mommy and Daddy fold up clothes. You did an excellent job laying your panties out. I gave you your panties and socks andsaid “go throw them in you drawer. You marched off only to come back in a few moments to ask ”I can throw them”? Ihad gotten onto you only moments earlier for throwing socks around. So I told you yes you could toss them in the drawer. So off you went again. A few moments went by and then you call us to come see what a good job you did and this is what we found. You told us “I put them in a circle”.And let usknow you needed more in order to finish yourcircle. You love to keep things interesting.

My Inkubook Arrived

I got my Inkubook! It turned out AWESOME! Here's a few pics of it although they really don't do it justice at all. If you wanna get your own check out inkubook.com

What a week!

If you don't have the best virus protection...invest in some! I have been battling viruses this week and they are NOT fun. They bypassed my AVG virus software. My SWEET baby brother is working on it for me. So last week was one of the most stressful weeks I have had in a while. I found myself taking lots of Tylenol in hopes that it might provide some sort of relief. I went back into my last training session for my new job on Monday-Wednesday, This wasn't really stressful at all but learning something new is always exhausting. ON Tuesday (right after a call with a patient) and while I was chatting with my preceptor, my Internet went down. Turned out that my modem was FRIED. I had to take off work (totally Internet dependent) and head to Embarq to pick up a new one (totally free...which was one good thing). On Wednesday I started noticing some funny pop ups with my home PC so I did a scan and it found some viruses, I deleted them and scanned again and they seems to accumulate again and again. So my bro is working his magic and hopefully it will be as good as new soon.

Here's a few of my recent pages:

This is front cover of my 1st photobook with my scrapbook pages which I should be receiving any day now :)

If you wanna see any closer to read the journaling go to my Enchanted Gallery.

Welcome to 2009!

It's 2009 already! WOW the year flew by. Kirsten is growing up so fast! For New Years Eve we hung around the house (I hate to travel any on this day of the year because of all the people that drink & drive). We made a fire in the fire pit we have and roasted sausage dogs and marshmallows on clothes hangers. We had a blast. For the 1st we again hung around the house, did some grocery shopping, and had dinner at Steak & Shake (complete with shakes of course). On 1/3 we went to Wild Adventures for the 1st time in 2009. We did make it there the end of December too. It's a good thing we went to as they are now closed until mid 3/09. We got our annual passes and Kirsten got her very 1st pass as we have to pay now that she is 3.

For my scrapping friends, there is a new forum in town. Check it out here: http://enchantedstudioscraps.com/forums/index.php

The forum is open now complete with great conversations and awesome challenges. It's gonna be my new home since Danielle Corbitt, Christie Lemmon, and Steel City Scraps are all setting up shops there. The store will be opening mid Jan 2009.

I am working on having my very 1st photo book printed with my scrapbook pages. I'm excited that i will finally have a book with my digital pages to share. I'm ordering my book from http://www.inkubook.com/

Our Christmas

We had a nice Christmas morning at home. Kirsten didn't wake us up until almost 9 am. She loved all her gifts. We went to my brother's house for X-Mas Dinner. Jake and I went to see "Seven Pounds" on X-Mas Even day since Kirsten was in daycare until 3pm and we were both off. Today she was at school again and we did our after X-Mas shopping and saw "Four Christmases". Both movies were pretty good.

My Present

Kirsten and all her presents.

Kirsten and her new V-Smile handheld.

Kirsten riding her new bike for the 1st time.

In our PJs that Santa dropped on our door step on X-Mas Eve

Our Redneck X-Mas Dinner party at my brother's house. The menu ended up being just turkey and dressing.

New Blog Look

I'm feeling a lot better about X-mas now! Cards have all been mailed, all shopping is done. I have 1-3 more presents to make but I have all days Monday and Tuesday to do that or just go buy a present for them...LOL. I finally got some pointers on how to add a background to my blog and made a new header. I'm totally loving it! Glitter is one of my faves.

Santa..More Santa & Adams Family Newsletter 2008

Wow a week until Christmas...where has the month and entire year gone? I have taken WAY too many pictures in December thus far. Kirsten has seen Santa 3 times (once was a trail run so no pics). We have been to several X-mas activities and still have several more and then all the pics we take on X-mas. I just put my last stack of X-mas cards in the mail besides those that will be hand delivered at parties. I finally added a letter to reach card reviewing what our family has done in the last yr. I did remember that I forget to include Kirsten started gymnastics. The letter is gonna look great on a scrapbook page too! I'm still stressing a bit over X-mas presents as I have a few kiddies let to buy for and my home made gifts aren't going as planned (both printers are out of ink). Luckily I am off all next week so I got a few days to do last min things.

This weekend is crammed full with 2 parties and a meeting.

I'm stressing over Kirsten and her back tracking with the whole Potty training thing. She has been in big girl undies for almost a month and did great until two weeks ago when she stopped going #2 at school. On Tuesday I took her big girl undies away and put her back in pull ups. Broke my heart and hers too but we have tried everything else (treats, taking TV away, Santa's not gonna bring your Dora Bike, diapers are for undies...you name it). I know it's not a matter that she can't do it since she did for a month. She's even getting called a "baby" by the kids in her class and she doesn't seem to care per teacher report. We have finally decided that Santa is going to bring her Dora bike either way but will are not planning on letting her ride it. That too is gonna break my heart but what's a MOM to do? We have still yet to get to Wild Adventures to check out their X-mas lights and such. Gonna have to cram that in there somewhere hopefully. Anyways here's some shots from December:

And here's our Newsletter:

The Adams Family Newsletter 2008

Every wonder what’s going on in The Adams Family? Well here’s the scope! In January Jake turned the BIG 30! Kirsten also started excelling with her language skills, her words had become very clear and she started using long sentences. In March we took Kirsten on her very 1st plane ride to Smuggler’s Notch Resort in Vermont. She did amazing well. It was her very 1st time seeing real snow and she love it. The resort had an onsite daycare so we took advantage of that and took a few ski lessons. What we learned was Amanda does not care for skiing and would much rather be doing digital scrapbooking in the warm room and Jake is crazy. After two lessons and no ski lift experience, he decided to jump on the ski lift. He survived, but barely and got a few battle wounds to prove it. The resort was awesome and very kid friendly so we all had a blast. In May we took Kirsten to Walt Disney World for her very 1st visit. She fell in love with everything about Disney. We got 4-day park hopper tickets so we went to all the parks. Magic Kingdom was our favorite. We had breakfast with JoJo & Goliath and Leo and June from the Little Einsteins. Kirsten loved that and the Mickey Mouse Belgian waffles with strawberries and whip cream on top were amazingly tasty. For Mother’s day Amanda got an awesome new SLR Digital camera that takes perfect pictures of her lightening fast daughter. On June 2nd, Kirsten started a new daycare as her previous daycare was closed due to financial issues. Her new daycare was a lot closer to home but further away from our jobs. She was place in the 3-4 yr old room even though she had 5 months until she turned 3. When she was screened they determine she was too big and more advanced than the children in the 2 yr old room and thought she would fit in better with the older children and she did wonderfully. On June 10th my little brother became a father and I an aunt to Summer Rayn Baldwin. We had a great 4th of July and Kirsten enjoyed splashing in her pool. We went to a local church and for the 1st time we were able to watch fireworks with Kirsten wearing earphones to muffle the sound. On August 26th, Amanda turned 29! In September, Kirsten started ballet classes. She has loved it since the beginning and will have her 1st recital on May 29, 2009. On September 5th, Jake’s Mema passed away. In October Amanda was offered a work from home position as a telephonic Complex Care Manager for McKesson Health Solutions and of course she accepted. The benefits and pay are amazing and almost unbelievable. On October 31st, Kirsten turned 3! She had a very cute Ballerina themed party and Daddy built her a huge swing set. The end of November we took Kirsten to her 2nd “The Wiggles” concert and she had a blast. On December 8th, Amanda and Jake had been together for 15 years. We have brought way too many Christmas gifts but Kirsten’s #1 request was a Dora bike.

Please excuse the red eyes and uncropping as I was just lazy and didn't feel like whipping out photoshop. If I don't get a chance to post again before the holidays...HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Be SAFE!

Amanda

X-Mas Card and Template

I made my X-Mas cards and turned it into a template for my scrapping friends. It is a complete scraplift out of the December/January Digital Scrapbooking magazine. Scraplift was of a card by Becky Pogatchnik. Enjoy! If you use it I'd love to see your results. FYI: For the words (Happy Holidays at the top and the name of family members in the trunk) I just typed them across and erased what I didn't need and to make the trunk and diamond top the same color as the background I just clipped the paper in the shapes too.

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The Fair..The Wiggles and such

Two weeks into my new job and it is still going pretty well. Ran into a few issues but I was still getting paid since this time it was an issue on their end. Kirsten is doing well. We took her to te fair last weekend and she was able to ride all the kids rides and loved them. I haven't upload the pics yet but they are sure to be darling. We are counting down the day until The Wiggle in concert which is this Friday (11/21). She is getting really excited and started asking , "Mom are they going to sing Hot Potato..." and ask it over and over with new songs. We got 5th row seats too.

I had some issues with my external hard drive and had to get a computer guru to retreive my things off of it as it was getting ready to crash. He got most of my pics (tho our Vermont vacation pics were not saved). They are still on there they just won't let me get them too. I am really hoping sooner or later it will be nice and let me grab them before acting up. Anyways, here's a few of my recent pages:


This double LO is from a challenge where I had to scrap a pic with an imperfection. I take tons of pics so it wasn't hard to find lots with little imperfections.