New year, new things

Well its 2010 and we have lots going on... First, we had Ben's birthday party on New Years eve and shot fireworks off as well... it was so much fun having everyone over.  Of course getting ready for it wasn't so fun.... We decided to paint the kitchen the day before the party.... finished about an hour and a half before everyone came over... TALK ABOUT STRESS!!!  but it turned out cute:

The Cars themed party was fun.... Ben has a slight (okay more than slight) addiction to Lightening McqUEEN.... he had a blast!:

Have to comment on this one... I was trying not to laugh, I was watching his face and you could almost see his thoughts:  "oh, i want to dig in to the cookie, or maybe play with those candles.... " and then he tried to grab the candles... hhahahaha

Fireworks time

Benny and Bit (ben didn't like the noise)

yes, Matt drained the bottle of beer so they could have something to shoot out of! haha

Now in other news:  DJ had his first develpmental delay screen, and failed.  Now we are waiting for another screen and will go from there.  We were supposed to get a call this week and haven't.  He may pass the next one though.  She said if he does, he will probably not pass the one at 24 months... so we will see.  He also had his hearing test yesterday.... and failed.  The audiologist said that his hearing on the right isn't very good.  He always looked left first because he heard it on that side first.  He also was missing some tone ranges on the left as well.  He did a lot of looking at her for visual clues and at his bubba for clues too.  She said he will be a visual learner.  Second person in a week to tell me this.  So at this point she isn't saying he needs hearing aids or anything, right now we have to contact Dr. Danna's office.  She said he needs to have his adnoids and possibly tonsill's (sp?) taken out and possibly new tubes as well.  After having at least the adnoids out, she will test him again and see what is going on.  If he is still having problems, we will go from there.  She said that she thinks if he can get his ears cleared up and STAYED that way, he could catch up fast with his speech and all.  So that is where we stand, Danna's office was closed yesterday after we got out so I am calling today.  I may have to get another referal first for Medicaid... who knows!  Will keep updating , but in the next month or so we will probably have another surgery.