Poor Wicky

Per Michelle's request... I have posted this sad little photo of my baby boy (kitty) Wicky. He is a beautiful huge black persian that unfortunately had to get shaved today... A cat just does not deserve a poodle haircut!!!!


Poor Baby!!!

update: Per Karen and Sharon's question - poor Wicky just had horrible knots that we could not get out - nor could the groomers... thus the Poodle!

Note to self

Sometimes you have to live with the results of your families genorosity when you do something for yourself!

My fabulous family let me get away to go scrapook at an overnight crop. While away -Todd took the kids to see the movie Alvin and the Chipmunks. And now, after a trip to Target where they bought the CD - I now have Todd, Logan & Lexi singing the songs from the movie at the top of their voices! And they do it in chipmunk voices!!! With "ALVIN" yelled throughout!

What a joyous thing!!! Maybe I can figure out how to add sound to my blog! hee-hee

Where else should they go???

Okay - so you think I would learn... or better yet... you think Lexi would learn!!!

After school yesterday the kids wanted a snack - so they decided on YoGos - little balls of fruit dipped in yogurt (about the size of a pachinko ball). I was working in the kitchen and then heard "MOMMY - arrrrrrr!!" You know - that dreaded voice! I run into Lexi and ask what is wrong and she says 'my nose'. The sad thing is - I knew immediately that she had decided to stick a Yogo up her nose!!! I was envisioning the whole trip to the ER saying 'yes - she stuck the yogo up her nose - and yes I do think she did it one other time - no I did not learn!!'

So I could not grab it with my fingers - way too far up. We went to the bedroom for some tweezers and luckily the yogo was just soft enough that I could grip it with the tweezers since the tweezers could not get past it to get a real hold. After I pulled it out - I asked if there were more - since her nose felt wierd and she said "no just purple". Isn't that so nice of her to have noticed what color she was going to shove up her nose????? And purple used to be her favorite color! And what makes a 3 year old decide - I'll eat this one but then shove this one up my nose!? Can anyone answer that? (yes mom, I know, around that age I decided that a rock should go in my ear...)

So - maybe I should put away the yogos and hopefully - my beautiful daughter will decide to leave her nose alone! But I will say she had such a pretty purple nose the rest of the day!

Goodbye 2007 HELLO 2008!

A very Happy New Year to you all!!!

As I get older - I truly understand now why people say that time goes by so fast! Where did 2007 go? When I reflect - I can say that we did have a wonderful year.

* Logan's start to his school career - and seeing how much he truly enjoys going to school and hopefully continues his desire to learn.
*Lexi's daily changes from a toddler to a little girl and watching that beautiful personality grow
* glorious family time in Disney World
* more adventure with Lexi in her experiences with speech Apraxia and her desire to learn
* getting to spend some time with our familys to create more memories - but not enough - we are truly craving more and will have to work on getting together much more often
* the wonderful friendships that have begun this year as well as the one's that keep growing stronger every year that provide us amazing support.
* the birth of our beautiful new niece - Emma, Logan & Lexi's first little 2nd cousin Maeve and some wonderful new little friends of ours Gracyn and Lyndsay.
* Continued health for us all and our familys.

I hope that you all take sometime today to reflect on your year while you are thinking of those new years resolutins... maybe I will have to post ours soon after I ask the kids what their resolution is... this could be quite interesting!

Much love to you all! And enjoy the New Year!! kelly

ps - Thanks Michelle for another fun filled New Years Eve - it is truly wonderful to be invited to share with you and your family! They are so wonderful! (And - the kids slept until 11am today!!!!!!!!!! Yay!!!)

A Very BLESSED Day

A Very Merry Christmas to you and yours! We love you all and miss you all! Hopefully we will get to see you all and spend some time in the New Year!

Kelly, Todd, Logan & Lexi

ps. I will post pictures later!

Kaufman Speech Apraxia Seminar

Wow - alot to take in but some great information! My mom and I spent last Friday all day at a seminar given by Nancy Kaufman - a specialist in the Apraxia Speech Diagnosis and Therapy. It was really fascinating and actually made me feel a little better seeing actual footage of children and the giant strides they make in their therapy. She had footage of some of the kids from age 3 and then again at age 18 - and you couldn't even tell they had a speech delay. Mom was happy she was able to go with me so that she could learn more about the delay and techniques of therapy so that she could understand Lexi and my discussion of her therapy much better. I so LOVED having her there so that I could have a second set of ears and just some support in this new world that we are getting into.

This seminar was geared towards speech therapists but there was a discounted parent rate and so my mom and I and 6 others were the only parents (grandparents) out of about 250-300 attendees. What was really neat is that Mrs. Kaufmann invites the parents to sit with her at lunch time so that she can have some one on one time with them to find out about their child and to answer any specific questions that you have. We got some good tips and saw things through other mom's eyes. We also found out how blessed we are to be living where we are becuase these mom's came from counties surrounding us and other states and we are so lucky to have the school system paying for Lexi to be seeing the specialist!!!

All in all - from what we saw and learned - we have high hopes for Lexi and do feel that she has some amazing things on her side and do feel that she will improve greatly and be talking our ears off with all of her stories in no time at all! If you could, mention her and us in your prayers in hopes of succesful therapy and the extreme amount of patience that all of us will be needing in the years to come!

Beautiful!

I have been meaning to get these pictures from Lexi's 3 year photo shoot online but I hadn't figured out yet how to use the new scanner (and obviously still didn't do too great since some of the pictures didn't come out fabulous.) BUT - no matter... I am sure you can tell that WOW!!!! She is such a cutie and those eyes are going to make our life difficult!!!