Happy New Year!

I've been terrible about keeping the blog updated lately and even though this is the beginning of a new year, I'm not going to resolve to be better about it because I just know that won't happen! Most of you are on Facebook and see all the updates there anyway, so the blog has become pretty redundant - except for the few details I share here that I don't post on Facebook. Anyway, I will continue the blog, but just know and understand that the posts will be random and fewer than before :)

Overall 2015 was a great year for Kinsey. She's learned a lot of new things and changed a ton, but most significant of all, she became a big sister . . . something she's just great at! At the beginning of the year, I started a Memory Jar and tried to remember to add notes to it throughout the year. Of course, most of them ended up being about Kinsey (these are through the summer, after that I slacked off):
* Kinsey loving the splash parks
* Kinsey and Jamie playing peek a boo in the house construction
* Watching Kinsey "swim" by herself for the first time
* Kinsey going up the stairs on the playground by herself
* Kinsey laughing at Teddy (the hamster) on his wheel

Here's a link to some of the pictures from the last month or so: Pictures


Something new that has just happened is Kinsey is doing much better with her drooling! In fact, she hasn't worn a bib since she's been on Christmas break! She's definitely not done wearing them yet - she still drools a ton when she's too busy to pay attention to it or sticks a toy or thumb in her mouth, but she's improving and progress is always a good thing! 

Kinsey got new glasses again recently - we went back to the old wire frame style because the newer ones she had just didn't stay on her face well. She has learned to push them up when they start falling down her nose and will even put them back on or hand them to one of us if they fall off. She doesn't seem to chew on them anymore, so that's really good too. 

We're also working on getting Kinsey a new hearing aid. The one she has is nearly 5 years old now, which means it's pretty old technology. In fact the audiologist can't even hook it up to her computer system to program it anymore. Unfortunately insurance and medicaid don't cover hearing aids for some ridiculous reason (and her hearing aid costs $5000), but the company that makes it has a program that they will basically grant you the hearing aid if you have medicaid. You have to jump through a bunch of hoops and it takes about 6 months, but it will be worth it when we finally get it!


We're looking forward to tons of fun with Kinsey and Winnie this year and hoping for a few less hospital stays (Kinsey is getting sick less frequently, but last year every sickness landed her in the hospital instead of just one)!