Christmas 2012

We all had a great Christmas, Brandon really enjoyed himself this year. Enjoy the pictures. :)

 Thank you Cory, he loves it :)

 The kids were all so very happy to see this Thank You Grandma and Grandpa Janes.

 Some stuff the kids made for the holidays :)

 This is a Christmas spider.

 Our Tree

Gopher

Here is a gopher that we caught and killed, it showed up as our neighbors were moving, not too many hole.

Zacharia Turns 8

I am a little behind, here is Zacharias birthday party from October :)

Zacharia

Zacharia is a fun loving boy who is way beyond his age level for learning. He likes to play tag,play board games, read books, and play games on the Wii and computer. He dislikes cleaning, listing, beans, and hot dogs. His favorite color is red, book is magic tree house and diary of a wimpy kid and nate the great, food is pizza, drink is water and juice and milk.

Zacharia is doing very well in school. he likes lunch and recess the best and dislikes 2nd step ( which talks about feelings) he plays ok with others. He thinks he owns the house and likes to boss other people around. He thinks he is in charge :)

Zacharia is having some anger issues still and we are working on this.
Brandon is connecting with Zacharia on a whole new level now. Zacharia is showing some of his true colors lately.

Zacharia is a great helper when he wants to be :) like all kids he is great and we love him.

Zarona Update :)

Today we went up to OSHU for yet another hearing test, this time they did a different test and got the same results as last time. They laid Zarona down and looked in her ears with a micro scope to see what was going on. Zarona did very well with the sitting still part and letting them look and put things in her ears.

The results:
Her left ear has some problem but she is still able to hear out of this ear. They said that she has an abnormal middle ear function.

Her Right ear is the bad one, she has hearing loss in this ear and can hear really loud noises. very little ear drum activity. she has a little fluid in this ear.

What they are hoping is that we put tubes in her ears and that will fix the problem, she has no history of infections and there is only a little fluid and it's only in 1 ear, which suggests that it's probably something else. But they try to do the simple fix first. We are now waiting to hear from OHSU about her surgery date.

We will keep you all posted. Thank You

Little update :)

Good Day:

We are all doing really well,
Zacharia is having a hard time with not saying to much when he is mad, he always says that he does everything and picks up after everyone, well last night Danielle finally had enough so now Zacharia has to do "everything" he will be doing this for a week and then we will see if he still feels the same way.
Jacob is also having a hard time with chores but still does them through his winning, which is funny and loud at some times.
Joshua is learning that he can not get away with everything and is pushing the limit of how far he can go before he gets hurt or in trouble.
Zarona is doing fine, she is Hard of hearing but we are working on that we will know more in Jan when she goes back to OHSU for yet another hearing test and eval. right now we are using more hand motions and signing some stuff to her. we will keep you updated.
Brandon is doing well, he is enjoying his family and loving life.
Danielle enjoyed her birthday and thanks everyone for the birthday wishes.
Brandon and Danielle's 9 year anniversary is coming up this week and we will be celebrating it at home :) like always :) Maybe with popcorn, ice cream and sprinkling cider :)
Later this month we will start a post about each person we will start with Zacharia so watch for that.

well that's all. TTFN
The Janes