Table Time Fun

I belong to a wonderful website called Online Christian Parents . We have begun some fun blog challenges. This is a mini-challenge that was posted this morning. "Table time fun! Get out that playdough, moonsand, or any other ooey gooey concoction and let your kid(s) at it! Join in on the fun! And of course... SHARE those photos! =)"

Wellllllllllllll I don't have kids, not yet, and not really. So here
are a few messy, ooey, gooey, pics of "Big Boy Ben "

Let's Play 20 Questions

1. I love to play puzzle games online and spades with another couple.
2. I am my husband's insanity-especially while I'm taking fertility drugs.
3. I worked as a Burger King manager for 8 years-we don't flop Whoppers!
4. I drink southern sweet tea. One large will last me all day.
5. I HATE coffee (unless it's a Java Chip Frappacino from Starbucks).
6. I HATE olives - any kind, in anything.
7. I make desserts that most people want to know what store I bought them from.
8. I have quit alot of jobs as a teenager (over 20 in a 2 year period).
9. I love to watch home-improvement shows.
11. My dream is to travel to Australia, Ireland/Scotland, and Europe.
12. I have lived in Miami, FL, Medina, OH, Evansville, IN, Greenville, SC.
13. My mom is a much better friend now that I am grown and almost 700 miles away.
14. I was born with blonde hair, but it's getting darker as I get older. I occassionally die it just for fun!
15. I play the piano, trombone, and baritone. I still own a trombone.
16. My first car was a chevy Impala painted blue w/ sparkles and my dad pin-striped it with red and my little brother gave me hot pink windshield wipers.
17. I knew I'd marry my husband after I knew him about a week. It was a total set-up!!!
18. I bought him a necklace with a badge. He said it was nice and put it away. When we started getting really serious, I started to wear it...and still do almost 10 years later!
19. I had to move out of my room-mates house because she propositioned my man! He didn't tell me about it until 2 weeks before we got married.
20. I love to read more than anything else in the world. When I have time, I can read an entire novel in one day.

First Time Ever

to get the flu. It's really awful when you add a sinus infection, double ear infections, bronchitis, and tonsilitis. On Monday, I went to work with my buddy Ben then headed over to the Karate school for my fitness kickboxing class. I was a little "run down" but thought I was just tired because I didn't sleep well over the weekend. By Tuesday morning I was running a low grade fever, coughing, a sore throat, and had body aches and chills. I got into my doctor's office around 3:00 to find out that I was the 4th person that day with flu symptoms. He wasn't convinced that I had the flu, but gave me the perscription for the medicine to start taking if my fever started to go higher. He believed that my main problems were the multiple bacterial infections. So he also gave me a perscription for antibiotics and a cough medicine to take after giving me one of those lovely shots in the behind.

Well, it's now almost Friday and I feel worse than ever. My temp went up to 102.4 just a few hours after taking Tylenol. I'm still coughing, sneezing, aching, chilling, and sore throating. Please pray that I feel better soon.

Decisions made, date set, paperwork complete

We are moving on to bigger and more expensive approaches to achieving our dream of finding Baby Boop. On January 31 at 10am a fertility specialist (Reproductive Endocrinologist-RE from here on out) will be reviewing our medical history, possible procedures, expected outcomes, and $$$$$$$$$$ with us. Yes, that's 10 dollar signs, because infertility procedures, medications, and monitoring is NOT cheap. South Carolina, along with at least 33 other states, don't require insurance companies to cover infertility procedures. SO, the first time a check mark shows up anywhere near the infertile box it sets off alarms in their offices! "We've got a big one here! From now on we do not cover ANY blood work, gynecology appointments, or medications for this one! They will have to go through the red-tape, yellow-tape, and any other tape we can find around here before they see another dime from us!!! *Enter evil laughing smilie here*

Officer Boop has also agreed to allow his type-A personality of a wife to begin filling out paperwork for adoption. We have agreed that we are going to pursue a domestic private adoption. I know that there are already soooo many older children and special-needs children out there waiting to find a good home, but at this point in our lives we need that sweet Baby Boop in our arms, the wailing cries at night to keep us awake, endless diaper changes, and formula puke on our work uniforms. I will feel peaceful knowing that the B.B. that comes to live with us was saved from an abortion, or would have been living with a struggling family.

My plea to you fellow bloggers is to send up some prayers for The Boop's. Email or post comments about your stories of achieving parent-hood.

Night shots

Did you see how cool my house looks decorated for Christmas????

My future home

Alright! I'll give you a break, but tomorrow we're checking out the night views ;)

The entire month of November in 1 post

It started off at the end of October w/ Ben starring as Lighting McQueen at his schools trick or treat parade and dance. It took me a solid week working 3 hours a night to create this for him, but I loved it, his parents loved it, and so did his schoolmates. Ben loved to rev the engine w/ the little steering wheel and gear shifter that was secured to his tray!

This costume is too big for his family or I to keep around our houses, so it's FOR SALE!!! All monies will be donated to PKS Kids for research of Ben's disease and also to his class for them to buy more adaptive equipment for Ben and his classmates!

Ben and his dad also have some artwork left over from this season's artshows. They paint amazing work and charge meager fees. Check them out benandbenniewaddell.blogspot.com Read through the links on the left hand bar to find "art for sale" and also scan through their blog to find interesting info about all people in general and the Waddell's in particular. Oh yeah...they often throw in some new art to look at!

Rodney's in love w/ watching his own TV in his room,

or the new (to them) big TV in the living room.

Where ever he is you will find this little red chair.

He has learned how to put on a shirt by himself. A few Sunday's ago his mom gave him his morning meds and formula to drink while she got everyone else ready. She laid his clothes at the top of the bed like usual, and when she returned he was fully dressed!

Every few months this boy proves how wrong the doctor's are about kids like him and Ben! Rodney double his life expectency yesterday! He turned 8!!! They said he would go before 4...suckas!!! They don't care to feel the determination in these kids, their families, and caregivers!

I am sooo proud of the progress that Rodney makes everyday. We are already working on potty training, and I expect we could be in big boy pants by spring, at least for the day time! Look down there to see Rodney put his shirt on by himself.

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On a personal note: O.B. and I have decided its time to start trying again to create a Baby Boop. I planned all the days with birth control pills, vacation days, ovulating days, DTD days. So, I am now taking the 4th of 5 days of Clomid 150mg. It's a very high dose, and the drug has a tendency to make a perfectly sane person HOMICIDAL if the trash isn't taken out on Wednesday, the potty isn't wiped, fall leaves are brought into the house that has just been vaccuumed!

And to top it all of! I'm taking my psychotic tendencies to Disney World for 10 days w/ O.B. and friends-George and Jane Jetson! This is the place where DTD must happen everyother day w/o fail or we will fail again! So, here I am going pyscho about the planning for everything. I have to work 10 hours tomorrow, do laundry, take out trash, fold laundry, trim the flowers, pack the laundry and sundries, and do a general fall cleaning on the house so the realtor can show it anytime while we are gone! AND we leave in 2 days!!!!!!!!!

I promise to return sometime the 2nd week of December to give updates on "my boys", lots of pics from the Disney trip, and status "Yes or No" on Baby Boop!

Feel free to use the comment section to start a poll or a prayer chain about success of creating Baby Boop! It'll be an interesting story for him/her as they grow!!!