Pearl the kitty

Here are a couple of pictures of our new cat. We (Jackson and I) decided to name her Pearl. It was better than any of his other suggestions. Such as Princess, Cutie, Herol, Whiskers.....
Anyway, we had a pretty good night with her. We never heard a peep out of her and I think she slept in our room. She seems to be a pretty good little cat so far.

About Christmas

Well, today is the day after Christmas. I thought I would take a few minutes and post a few pictures and stories.

On Christmas Eve day Mikey and I spent five hours in Urgent Care because Mikey was pretty sick. The antibiotic he was on for a week and a half really didn't help a whole lot. He has bronchitis and both ears are still infected and he's beginning to get gunk in his lungs. The doc put him on a stronger antibiotic and a steroid to help with the tightness in his chest. He slept until 10:00 Christmas morning so we did the Christmas morning thing without him. He began to feel better yesterday as the day went on. This morning he seemed to be doing better but then he threw up all in his high chair. So I don't know what that was about. We were exposed to everything under the sun at the Urgent Care place so there's no telling what we'll come down with.

I woke up feeling like I have the beginnings of some kind of bug. My throat was pretty sore when I woke up but it feels better now. If it was strep throat it would be getting worse with every passing moment so hopefully I dodged that bullet. I'm supposed to sing with the church band this weekend and I really don't want to miss out on that.

We had a good day yesterday in spite of having a sick child. The boys got loads and loads of presents that we have no place to put. Jackson was so excited about every present he got. Lots of "YESSS!" stuff going on with him Christmas day. Jackson wore his Christmas p.j.s all day until we made him take them off to go to bed again. But atleast he wore clothes. If you know Jackson at all, you will know that his underwear is his usual attire. Jackson got a My Little Pony from his mean uncle and his not-so-mean wife. The look on his face was priceless. I hope someone gives me a picture of that. I want Jack to pass the pony along to my brother's boys but Jackson does not see the humor in giving girly toys to little boys. He will see the humor in it someday.

Phillip, Jackson, and Josh are on the way to The Apple Store at First Colony to pick Phillip up his long awaited lap top. Now I suppose he can start obsessing about something else. Maybe that will keep him happy for a little while anyway.

We're getting a kitty today. I picked her out on Thursday of last week at the SPCA. She's at the vet today getting her (internal) girl parts removed. We had to get that done before we could bring her home. Jackson has no idea so he'll probably be pretty surprised. Maybe this cat will stick around for a while. I really hope she's not obnoxious. The plan is for her to be an inside/outside cat. If she doesn't participate in that arrangement, then she'll be strictly outside. I'm not dealing with the littler box thing once her girl part surgery scar is healed up.

We're supposed to be getting together with my mom, my brother, and his wife and boys Friday evening. Jackson hasn't seen his cousins in a while and he's very excited to see them again. I hope that Mikey and I will be well enough to go.

I'll post some pictures of the little cat after she gets to her new home. Merry Christmas!

Notice the under bite. He gets that from his daddy.

This is Phillip holding sick Mikey very early Christmas morning. He went back to sleep after that and slept through the opening of presents.

attacking Uncle Josh - he probably deserved it

Jackson likes Chapstick so Santa put some in his stocking.

This is one of the presents Jackson found before Christmas. He had to hunt for them on Christmas morning.

Jackson rode his scooter (sort of) outside in his pajamas. I rode it too. It's really fun.

New Photo Blog

I started a photo blog a little while ago. I'm hoping it will help with getting some more traffic to my main photography site. We'll see. The photography thing has been going pretty well so far. I've been learning a ton of stuff and I've still got lots more to learn. But I'm having fun and so far my "clients" are happy with their pictures. So guess, so far, so good. BTW, I will no longer be working at my church job after the end of this year. That will be a relief.

Mikey Meets Santa

We went to a little party today at The Arrow Project in Angleton. They have a little party and give gifts to their foster families. Santa was there and Mikey was pretty afraid as most kids are. Here's one of him considering walking to Santa. He changed his mind shortly after this was taken.

On a side note, there was a little tiny baby there that I held and it really made me want another one. But Phillip says no.

Christmas is ruined!

Jackson found a couple of his poorly hidden Christmas presents yesterday. He just told me about it this evening. I really can't believe he managed to keep that secret for that long. One of the presents was supposed to be from Santa, so now I'm going to have to figure something else out. Jackson thinks that Phillip and I are considering taking them back since he saw them. So I think on Christmas morning we may keep those presents hidden until the end and see if he says anything about them. Then if he does we'll just tell him we took them back to the store. Maybe toy with him a little, perhaps make him cry on Christmas morning. That could be fun, right? We'll see. I guess it just depends on how cute he looks in his striped Christmas p.j.s that morning.

ConJUNKtivitis

Jackson ended up with pink eye earlier this week and missed school on Monday. Now Mikey has it.....YEAHHH! Man, this totally stinks! I tried my hardest to keep them away from each other, but it's pretty difficult. And I think pink eye is contagious before you even know you have it. Mikey has some other sickness issues going on so I'm going to try to get him to the doctor today.

Some of the little kids in Jackson kindergarten class play girls chase boys or boys chase girls or whatever. I think they actually call the game "Princesses" for some reason. Anyway, when Jackson was getting ready for school on Tuesday, he told me that when he is chasing the girls he is going to say, "You better run 'cause I have pink eye!!" I told him that was probably not a good idea.

I'm sure Phillip and myself, and our parents, and some family friends are going to get this mess too. I'm sorry, but that's what you get for loving our kids so much.

My eyes feel weird today, but I think it's my imagination.

Termination...Complete

We had court today for Mikey. His parental rights were officially terminated! YEAHHH! If everything goes like we're expecting, he'll be a Hintze in March. We are pretty relieved and excited.

the boys

I haven't posted in a while. And I haven't posted any pictures of my kids in quite a while. So, here are some recent ones. I took these of Jackson while he was helping to decorate the Christmas tree. My favorite one is the top one. I told him to smile because this one is for Nana.....and that's what I got. I've gotten some really cute pictures of Mikey lately, but I'll just post a few of the cute "non-identifying" ones. Enjoy!