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Katurah is starting to talk a little bit more everyday. She is doing really well trying to enunciate during prayers. When we pray for grandma and papa she says "gamma and PAPA!" cuz you know papa is so very exciting. My other favorite is when we pray for Uncle Jake she just says "Yoho." That's what she calls Jake and the Neverland Pirates so naturally that's who we're praying for.  

We bought a huge pack of socks the other day. I guess we are pretty hard up for entertainment because we laughed and laughed as Amari came down with ALL of the socks in the package on at once. She is such a clown she lives to make people laugh.

She carefully removed all of the socks a little while later and we had a foot on the table...creepy...

Amari was singing Rudolph today, "You know Dasher, and Dancer, and Blixson, and Mixon, Common, and Cupin, and you them all, the most famous reindeer of all...."

Christmas caused a lot of confusion at our house, Zeke thought he was 6 and Amari thought she turned 4. I guess any time you get a boat load of presents that means you get older, it makes sense.

Zeke was playing with this sticky lizard toy and made it stick to the wall, which made it look kind of realistic. I told him he should trick his sisters into thinking we got a pet lizard. Amari was taking a nap at the time and I heard him trying to get her up by saying "Amari wake up, I need to trick you!" Super sneaky Zeke.

I downloaded a Autism social story game and let him play it. It talks about how making friends is fun and gives some ideas on how to do that, such as look at there face when you talk to them and ask them about there interests like what there favorite movie is. He played for a while, then later that night I heard him ask Jess what his favorite movie is. He has asked everyone who has come to our house. So if Zeke knows your favorite movie, you must be his friend.

Zeke got a CTR ring today in Primary and boy is he proud. He is still wearing it now, green fingers tomorrow!

Seneca is doing good. I jokingly call her my bipolar baby, when she is happy she is so happy, but that can change so fast and watch out when she is mad. She is still quite the mama's girl, but has been letting daddy hold her (over an hour yesterday!!!) a little bit here and there.

Baby number 5 has not been easy. I am so glad I got help and was put on antidepressants early, or I don't know if I would have survived this. There are days that I feel like I have totally lost myself and I can't deal with anyone needing one more thing from me. There are also moments of sheer joy where I can't believe how very blessed I am and how wonderful my children are. Sometimes I think people think I deal with everything a lot better then what I actually do inside, I guess I just hide it better than some and I still do my hair, so I'm doing great right? On a very positive note, this experience of the overly dependent child has taught me to say no a lot easier, something I have always struggled with. You want to come over so I can give you full highlights?...ummmm no. Really people? Ok done with my rant, I just felt like I needed to document the reality of this, maybe my kids will need to hear this someday.

 

We were playing hide and go seek as a family on New Years Eve. I am kind of an awesome hider (Toot toot, yeah that's my own horn) and the kids couldn't find me several times. One time I moved to the stairwell after the kids failed to find me and just stood there against the wall like I had been there the whole time. I told Pantera that I never moved and they walked past me like 3 times, "It's called hiding in plain sight." So as we went into the next round Pantera sits on a play horse in the middle of the room and says "So how do you do this plain sight thing?"

My mom suggested I paint little critter on Zeke's wall. So we repainted there entire room and in the moments Seneca let Jess hold her I did this...

Zeke said "it looks perfect!" When I asked Amari what she wants on her wall she said "A painting of baby Seneca so everyone knows I have this little one, yes I do! Yes I do! Or maybe some butts." Nice.

I got a super sweet vinyl machine from my parents and now my stairs are cool...

Happy New Year 2014's gonna be awesome!!!