Friday, October 31, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Go Lightning!
Taylor's soccer team won last night with a score of 2-0... The kids were on fire! It is amazing to watch them learn throughout the season from a team that couldn't score at all, to this aggressive team that depend on each other. They did great, even though it was freezing outside.
Hannah had her ENT checkup yesterday and everything looked great. She goes back in a month for a hearing test, then back in 4 months for another checkup. I got to see the tube in her ear and it was pretty neat - I'm just glad that it is working and even happier to know that from here on out, ear infections can be treated with ear drops instead of oral antibiotics! She started pulling up on 10/11 (the day she turned 8 mos) and now she wants to stand all the time - she'll be walking in no time. Right now she is just so active that she is almost dangerous b/c she doesn't have the stability and keeps falling all the time. She is already "cruising" on furniture, so we're in the count-down to walking. It is all we can do to keep up with her now!
I'm in a crunch for work and working toward a major deadline this Friday, so this is going to be short. Hope everyone is doing well and I'll try to catch up more later.
OH! We went to Busch Gardens this weekend and Taylor rode the Big Bad Wolf twice!!! She loved it and wanted to keep riding, but the lines were too long... What a dare devil!
Hannah had her ENT checkup yesterday and everything looked great. She goes back in a month for a hearing test, then back in 4 months for another checkup. I got to see the tube in her ear and it was pretty neat - I'm just glad that it is working and even happier to know that from here on out, ear infections can be treated with ear drops instead of oral antibiotics! She started pulling up on 10/11 (the day she turned 8 mos) and now she wants to stand all the time - she'll be walking in no time. Right now she is just so active that she is almost dangerous b/c she doesn't have the stability and keeps falling all the time. She is already "cruising" on furniture, so we're in the count-down to walking. It is all we can do to keep up with her now!
I'm in a crunch for work and working toward a major deadline this Friday, so this is going to be short. Hope everyone is doing well and I'll try to catch up more later.
OH! We went to Busch Gardens this weekend and Taylor rode the Big Bad Wolf twice!!! She loved it and wanted to keep riding, but the lines were too long... What a dare devil!
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Lightning's First Win!
It has been a crazy weekend! Taylor's soccer team had their first win yesterday morning - they played a great game and it really paid off. I'm not sure who was more excited - the kids or the parents! Brad was exhausted from working the big yard sale all day on Saturday, but it was all worth it. I still have a TON of baby stuff to prep for a consignment sale, since I refuse to give it all away. The big news from this week is that Hannah gets tubes put in her ears on Thursday. Please pray for her on the 16th - her surgery is at 8:15am and while we know it is the best thing, it is still makes me worry. We went to play at Papa and Gigi's house today and made some videos... enjoy!
(Hannah on swing)
(Hannah on swing - The background noise is Taylor saying WHEE!)
(Taylor on swing - she made up a new song!)
(Hannah's car ride)
(Taylor's car ride - she somehow managed to get in there!)
(Hannah's slide - sorry this one is sideways...)
(Hannah on swing)
(Hannah on swing - The background noise is Taylor saying WHEE!)
(Taylor on swing - she made up a new song!)
(Hannah's car ride)
(Taylor's car ride - she somehow managed to get in there!)
(Hannah's slide - sorry this one is sideways...)
Thursday, October 2, 2008
We're ready for the cooler weather!
It has been ages since I've updated and I'm so sorry. Things have been so hectic since school started back... Taylor loves her new class and has lots of new friends. Her old class was split in half, since many of the kids won't start kindergarten next year - Durham changes the age cutoff to 9/1, so kids that aren't 5 years old by 9/1 have to wait another year. The preschool used this cutoff to separate those kids so that they can remain in a class with friends that they will go to school with. That meant lots of slots in her existing class, so she has many new friends this year and a much bigger class (20 kids!). She is writing her name every day and they are focusing on handwriting skills in general - we started homework this week too!
Soccer has taken off and Taylor has her 2nd game tonight. She has really enjoyed playing, but it is very time consuming for the family - we didn't really realize what it meant to be a soccer family, but around here it is taken very seriously! She started off with twice weekly practices and now we're up to twice weekly games. It really is a juggling act, but she is catching on and she sure does look cute in that uniform... Too bad we don't get "cute points"!
Hannah has been making strides - she is doing an "army crawl" these days, pulling herself with her elbows and pushing with her feet, though refusing to actually get her belly off of the ground. Don't get me wrong, she CAN pick up her belly, which she shows in her fancy yoga plank moves, but when she starts to crawl she goes back to the ground. So funny to watch, but she is really moving around now. She can't seem to shake these ear infections - we've been on 4 rounds of antibiotics in just over 2 months and I've requested a referral to an ENT to be sure that we're on the right path. Seeing as we haven't even started the "winter months", I can't see how she'll manage if she doesn't get tubes.
Brad's work has been busy lately and so has mine - our new system went live on 9/1/08, so it has been chaotic on both ends of the spectrum. I'm posting the video for Taylor's dance recital too, so enjoy - we just got the video on Tuesday night, so this one isn't my fault! ;-)
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Soccer has taken off and Taylor has her 2nd game tonight. She has really enjoyed playing, but it is very time consuming for the family - we didn't really realize what it meant to be a soccer family, but around here it is taken very seriously! She started off with twice weekly practices and now we're up to twice weekly games. It really is a juggling act, but she is catching on and she sure does look cute in that uniform... Too bad we don't get "cute points"!
Hannah has been making strides - she is doing an "army crawl" these days, pulling herself with her elbows and pushing with her feet, though refusing to actually get her belly off of the ground. Don't get me wrong, she CAN pick up her belly, which she shows in her fancy yoga plank moves, but when she starts to crawl she goes back to the ground. So funny to watch, but she is really moving around now. She can't seem to shake these ear infections - we've been on 4 rounds of antibiotics in just over 2 months and I've requested a referral to an ENT to be sure that we're on the right path. Seeing as we haven't even started the "winter months", I can't see how she'll manage if she doesn't get tubes.
Brad's work has been busy lately and so has mine - our new system went live on 9/1/08, so it has been chaotic on both ends of the spectrum. I'm posting the video for Taylor's dance recital too, so enjoy - we just got the video on Tuesday night, so this one isn't my fault! ;-)
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