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3月24日 Eat, a PoemEat Eat Eat by Tracey Eat eat eat. All we do is eat. Please feed us our meat! We eat in the morning. We eat at noon. eat eat eat. We eat when the sun is up We eat when it is down. the thought of no food just makes us frown. eat eat eat all we do is eat. We eat when we're hungry We eat if we're not eat eat eat We eat a little here We eat a little there If you don't feed us we will growl like a bear! eat eat eat all we do is eat! We eat when it is hot We eat when it is cold eat eat eat We like our veggies We like our starch We always like to eat just before we march. eat eat eat all we do is eat 2月12日 In memoryThis was taken from Meredith Cornish's blog. www.cornishadoptionjourney.blogspot.com These two precious girls lost their lives while waiting for a family of their own. While We were........ In Memory While we were eating... While we were playing... While we were tucking our kids into bed... While we turned up the heat... While we wrapped our children in blanket sleepers... While we sang songs and listened to music... While we rocked our babies... While we hugged our kids... While we cried over scraped knees... While we brushed our daughters' beautiful hair... While we fought off the flu with love and nourishment... No longer suffering... but so many more still are. In memory of those that have never felt the love of a family, but have passed away alone. Today we learned of the passing of these two girls in Eastern Europe. Margarita
Katarina
Potty training For the last two weeks we have been potty training full time here. We were working on Ella wearing pull ups. Katya was jealous so we put her in pull ups too. I would set her on the potty every hour or so. At first she was just happy to sit there. Then she started to go. Then she noticed she could control when she went. You should have seen the joy on her face when she figured out that was a voluntary action. You could actually see the realization spread across her face. She now loves to potty and is dry most of the time. She still wets at night but that is another problem all together. Ella is more selective with what she does on the potty and when. We told her we would be taking Katya to lunch and to buy pretty panties. Ella said "I want lunch too". The original deal was earrings. That is what Anna got, but we didn't think Katya would want earrings or that she would tolerate having us care for earrings. She still hates having her hair done most days. So what would make Katya happy? LUNCH! We decided Wendy's would be good. She likes nuggets and fries, ice cream and coke. Ella wants to go too but not enough to be more diligent with the potty. I don't know if Katya can sense when she needs to go or not. She has started to ask me to take her to the potty but it is usually to get out of an unpleasant situation or just because she is bored. She goes every time though. So who knows. Can't ask her. All in all I am very proud of our girls. We thought Katya would be eight or so before she trained due to the Down Syndrome and weakened muscles. She surprises us every day. 12月24日 family pictures againBy the way, the two big boys are Ben and Isaiah. The little boys are Noah and Levi. The girl is Ella.
more family pictures.Some pictures disappeared from my last post so here we go for try number two.
  family picturesWe had our family pictures done last weekend. They didn't turn out as well as I had hoped but some were cute anyway. I'll attach a few here to see and put the rest in the photo section.
  12月17日 SnowIt is snowing! It hasn't snowed in over five years. It is certainly making up for it now. It has been snowing constantly for nine hours and we are only half way through the storm.
 This morning when it all began.
 .....A few hours later
 Later Josh came out to see.
 "Snow makes ma happy and cold"
 Stay tuned for more...... 12月8日 oh wellWell, after going in the potty four times in a row over two days Ella has decided enough is enough and once again refuses to try. Even the promise of candy from Gramma wasn't enough to entice her to try. Back to the drawing board. 11月24日 BREAKING NEWS!This just in.
Breaking news.
Ella has peed the potty!
WAy to go Ella
we knew you could do it!
11月19日 a cooking storyIsaiah was sick the other day. He's 12. He wanted to make himself some grits. He calls me while I am picking up Anna from school. He says we don't have one of the ingredients. Anna asks him which one are we missing. It only calls for grits, salt, butter and water. She told him salt and butter were optional ingredients. He says no we have those. "We are missing something called "yield" where do I find it? We need one cup" Anna and I just bust out laughing. He read the yield: one cup and thought he needed a cup of yield. How cute is that.
11月15日 Katya's birthday and more Yesterday Katya had a nice long nap. Unusual for her. She woke up wired for sound. She was quite hyper and very happy. It was nice to see her in such a good mood. She was bouncing everywhere laughing. We came home from our date night just after ten and she was in her room awake. Ella was asleep. She heard us and yelled for daddy. (a common occurance if they are awake when he gets home). We let her come down for ice cream (we brought some home for everyone still awake). She was so happy. She ate her ice cream then the big boys took turns playing with her. At 11 Gio and I went to bed. I told the boys to put her in bed when they were done playing with her. This mornings report was they went to bed at midnight and she was still awake and wanting to play more. She slept in very late this morning. We all appreciated that.
We had cake finally. She blew out the candles while we were singing. She was pleased with herself.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATYA!
cute I dressed Katya yesterday and she stood up and said "pretty" then ran off to show Anna. It was the first time she cared what she looked like. She is starting to want to wear pretty clothes instead of running around in her diaper. She used to yell at me when I would dress her. Or promptly undress herself. She still loves to be dirty but at least she starts out clean. 11月11日 a cookieAnna and Katya were playing obstacle course when Noah came outside with a cookie. Anna convinced Katya to finish the course and then eat the cookie. After every event Katya would ask for the cookie finishing each event faster and faster. Finally just before the end she finishes the event and runs to Ben, who was holding the cookie for her, and she says "cookie Now" plain as day. After getting her cookie she wanted to finish the course. When Anna was all done playing Katya kept trying to drag her back outside to play some more. Physical therapyWe've been doing physical therapy type excercises with Katya at home all summer. Today Anna made an obstacle course for her. She had a trampoline, a balance beam, some steps, something to step over, something to step in, something heavy to carry, and something to crawl under. It is great excercise and a ton of fun. Both the girls and all the boys love it. All of it was made with just some scrap wood and milk crates plus a heavy ball and the trampoline of course.
Now they are inside stretching and doing summersaults.
Too bad the batteries in the camera are dead. It really is cute. 11月9日 TomTom the guniea pig died on Friday morning. She lasted three days longer than Gerry. We thought for sure she was going to pull through. Good bye Tom. It was a fun five years. may you rest peacefully. 11月5日 Guniea pigsWe had two guniea pigs. One died yesterday. They were both just laying in the cage looking so pathetic. They didn't even startle when you opened the cage like normal. The one wasn't drinkin or eating. Tom, the one that is still alive was drinking a tiny bit. We wondered if she would make it through the day. She did. Then we wondered if she would live through the night. She did. Today we thought for sure she'd be gone. Well, Tom the piggie is still alive.
and Jerry
have all gone on before her. Katya's eyesKatya had her eye exam today. Her eyes have become more nearsighted over the last year. The eye doctor said that is common in kids with Down Syndrome. Due to their low muscle tone even in the eyes. So a new Rx for her. She wasn't happy about the appointment. She kept telling the dr. no when he would ask her questions. After the appointment and it was time to go she grabbed her glasses off the table and said bye bye. She wasn't happy when I made her give the glasses back and leave without them. Poor girl. I kept telling her they'd give them back next week. I'll have to take the other pair to Wal-Mart and get new lenses in them too.
Ben and Isaiah had a consult with the orthodontist today. I am shocked at how expensive it is. I knew it would be alot but I was still surprised. Oh well.
Noah is such a funny boy. Have I told you what kind of books he checks out from the library? THE MISSISSIPPI FLOOD OF 1993, DAVINCI, ALBERT EINSTIEN, THOMAS JEFFERSON, JEFFERSON DAVIS, JAPAN, HELEN KELLER, JOHNNY APPLESEED, AND ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL. I tried to get him to read a normal story and he just wasn't interested. Even the story the library was going to show a movie of after you read the book. History is easy for this boy but Literature will be a pain. the only stories he is even remotely interested in are Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. the reading level is still to high for him though. Maybe in another year or two...
It's time to go to counseling at the college to pick out Josh and Anna's classes for the next two years. Priority registration starts soon. I hope they have better luck this time.
10月23日 Katya is smartWho says Katya isn't smart? Just because she has Down Syndrome doesn't mean she isn't smart. Here is an example.
Ella gets new shoes all the time. Katya's little pudgy foot is hard to fit so she doesn't get new shoes as often. We finally found some cute little dressy sandals for her a few weeks ago. Ella was very upset that she didn't get any. She refused to wear shoes to church that Sunday because she wanted Katya's. It was our turn for nursery duty so we were fine with that. During service Katya took the prized shoes off. Ella runs from the other side of the room snatches up the shoes and says "I won the shoes". She refused to take them off all that day. She even fell asleep in them that night. I took them off her while she was sleeping. Katya found them Monday morning. Ella saw her pick one up and started yelling. Katya took the shoe and ran to the laundry room and shut the door. The laundryroom has a child lock thing on the outside of the door but it is always open. She knew she could get in, she could get out when she was ready, and Ella couldn't get in. Josh went in to go get milk from the garage. She tried to push him out yelling "No". It was really cute to see those wheels turning in her brain. It worked out so well, she now runs there every time Ella is chasing her for something.
As an aside, Ella is ususally chasing Katya because Katya took something from her. It goes both ways. They are such good sisters. They take things from each other, they chase each other, they yell at each other, but they also hug each other, kiss the other when they are sad, take turns covering each other up with blankets, wrestle with each other in a non-combative way, laugh together and get into mischief together.
Here is a picture of mischief. They got out the suntan lotion and lotioned each other.
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