Happy New Year

Playing with her trains
Obsessed with her new i touch or "Nora's pink phone"

fun in the snow w/Grandfather

We had a wonderful Christmas in NY with the cousins and grandparents and aunts and the uncle and all of our friends. There was enough snow to go sledding and Santa was able to make it to Mim's house. The getting there and home part was a bit bumpy but we managed not to lose any kids in the process.

We are now home and enjoying our vacation time with Grandma, Grandpa and Aunt Kim. And Alex is on vacation from work so he has been home too! We have lots of fun plans for the next few days.

The day before we left for NY we went to Nora's neurologist and Nora had her final check up. She has been seizure free for 2 1/2 years and off meds for six months with no problems. Her development is great and she is progressing every day. So we have been discharged from the neurology department. Unbelievable. She'll be 4 in a few months and what a crazy 3 + years we have had.

We are so happy that she is such a HAPPY girl. She loves to sing and dance and run and play. She loves to make new friends and is so so so social. She is learning new things every day and we can't wait to see what 2010 brings!

We hope your new year brings you lots of happiness, health and joy.

Thanks for checking in

See you next year!
Lori

Singing and etc.

We have been doing a lot singing lately. We have every Hallmark singing snowman (thanks Mim) and Nora likes to play them all at the same time. Music to the ears I tell ya. But we are playing a lot of holiday songs and singing all day long. We have the tree and lights up. I can't get Nora to stand still for a second with Emma to take any pictures. She hates having her photo taken because she likes to play with the camera so she freaks every time I get it out.

There is a house near us that has a fabulous light show. You can tune your car radio to get the music and watch the lights as they play along. Nora and Emma really liked it. We may have to go back to see it again. Someone had a lot of time on their hands. I can barely make dinner these days.

Alex had sales meetings all last week and this weekend so I was solo 24/7 (even though he was in Seattle, we barely saw him). Hopefully this week will be easier- although our week is chock full of nuts. Girl scouts, recess duty, ballet, dentist appt., doctor appt., teacher appreciation baking, book club, cookie baking, cookie exchange, volunteering, xmas party, speech therapy, the list goes on and on. And on. I should really do some Christmas shopping in there and maybe vacuum a bit. Oy vey.

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Lori

Giving Thanks

I am thankful for these two little turkeys.

Happy Thanksgiving

Love Lori, Alex, Emma and Nora

Still here

We are still here. Not much going on. Alex is traveling, I am busy with the girls' schools, ballet, parent council, volunteering, playdates, speech, dentists, etc. etc. etc. Oh, and let me tell you Nora does NOT like people messing with her teeth. I was holding her in a full body restraint and the dentist still couldn't get in there.

Nora has a cold so isn't really sleeping well. I haven't gotten the girls flu shots yet. Vaccines freak me out so I am still undecided. There aren't any H1N1 vaccines around anyway, unless we stand in line for 3 hours. And Nora is super good about waiting in lines, NOT.

I am actually wondering lately if she has an attention issue. She doesn't sit still for longer than a few minutes. Having her sit and eat is crazy. She bounces around from one thing to the next all day long. It's exhausting. For me anyway. I still have concerns about her being on the autism spectrum. If she is, she would get WAY more services than she gets now. We go see her neuro in Dec. so we'll discuss these things then I guess.

Same old stuff going on here.
thanks for checking in
Lori

Me and me

Me May 2009
Me-Fall 1971 (6-9 months?)


One of the blogger dads-Ken- who's blog I read is having a contest, to show a picture of me when I was a baby and now. check out Blogzilly.

Alex just ordered a photo scanner. We haven't had one that works in a while. This is the only baby pic I could find. I'll have to upload some from the '80's

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Lori

Rain Rain Go Away

Nora's school photo. We did retakes on Wed. They weren't much better.








It has been pouring for days. Not much to say so I posted some pictures.

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Lori

Halloween

We went to a costume party last weekend. Alex and I were the local burger joint- burger flippers. Emma was Hermione Granger and Nora was a grumpy witch. She refused to wear a hat and the dress kept riding up. We are hoping to have her be Old MacDonald/farmer on Sat. She has a farmer hat she'll wear and I ordered some overalls and got her a checked shirt. Hopefully the overalls will show up today. If not, she'll just be in orange and black. She could care less about a costume.

I went on a field trip with Emma's class yesterday to another pumpkin patch. Nora has a costume parade at school tomorrow and Emma's class is having a Halloween party. Sat. Emma has ballet then the local businesses have a trick or treat during the day. Then out to the neighborhood Sat. night. Busy busy busy. Never ending Halloween.


Hope everyone has a candyrific holiday!

Lori