Rough Couple of Weeks!

Not a lot to report. The first two weeks of January have kicked our butts this far. As mentioned in the previous post, we dealt with the furnace issue on New Year's Day, and the hot water heater going out just before Christmas. It's been since the week before Christmas and we have yet to receive our replacement dishwasher (now they are saying Monday...fingers crossed!), and the roof sprung a new leak last week as well. Luckily the leak is over the "formal" living room (which we don't use and don't even have much furniture in), but we've had a parade of fix-it guys coming to the house to do estimates. Thankfully, we don't own this house! The upside of that is that we don't have to pay for the repairs. The downside of that is that WE have to live in it while all this is going on...the landlord doesn't. 

On top of all that, Steve and I caught some kind of intense stomach virus last week that had us each in bed for a few days. Well, we took turns being in bed because someone had to watch Lil Miss and make sure she didn't get into trouble. Thankfully, the stomach virus seems to have alluded Lia. However, she is dealing with a lot of congestion and coughing, which is keeping us ALL up during the night (as we listen to her on the monitor). If it doesn't improve soon, I think we'll be making a trip to her doctor...

On the brightside, she had her monthly weight and height check on the 5th, and she is now in the 25th percentile for kids her age in the U.S.!  This is huge, because when we first came home, she was only in the 5th percentile. Given the fact that she had palate surgery also since then, everyone is very pleased with her growth progress.

So not a lot of new photos this week. Just one good one of our girl rediscovering the joys of strawberry jello on Monday night.