Allison

I cannot believe how fast Allison has grown up. She is sitting on my lap right now and has just discovered the electric pencil sharpener. At first she was enjoying writing with the pencil and now that is old stuff to sharpening it. Anyway I was excited to see that Allison's pencil grip has already developed. She will be 18 months old by the end of next week. That means NURSERY! I am excited to actually listen to a Sunday School lesson instead of walking the halls tending to a very active toddler. It is a funny thing to be excited about a good pencil grip, but that is one of the developmental delays along with a speech delay that both Madeline and Anne suffer from. Maddie's delay has been linked to an underdeveloped left brain that has also been the source of her seizures. Both had a terrible time developing a correct pencil grip and ended up needing some therapy to help them with it. I decided to begin recording the words that Allison is beginning to say. Here are some of words we have heard her say recently: bathtub, diaper, stinky, what's this, what is it, hello, hi, bye, eat, uh-oh, thank you, mommy, dada, poopoo, hat, bubbles, this, burp, numnum. I am sure there are more than that we have failed to record. I guess diaper changes seem to occupy a very important part of her day. She can tell me when she is stinky which is very different from Anne and Maddie who could not speak until almost 3 years of age. I have had many people comment that Allison is also very quiet, that she doesn't cry a lot. But I have noticed that she screams instead! She is not shy, and is very strong willed and very active!

Finnaly here

Well it has been about a month in Las Vegas and everything has been okay. At school I am in Chour and National Junior Honor Society. I am in advanced chour and we get to do a lot of the traveling and singing at things like festival and thing like that. I am on the Media commite in NJHS. I got to make a poster for our pop tab program at school.My schools name is Molasky Junior Middle School. I got a part in our school play, Big Bad, the trial of the big bad wolf. I am the fairy godmother who is a lawyer. I have 76 lines and have the next to most lines in the whole play. I read Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse; it has become my favorite book and I cant wait till the movie comes out. I still have not read Breaking Dawn and so desperatly want to read it. Twilight is a romance bettween a human girl,Bella, and a vampire, Edward. It was written by an Lds lady named Stephanie Meyer. She is very talented and really descriptive and can write very well. I amreading the Choronicals of Narnia while I wait for Breaking Dawn to become available.I am on book five, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. My moters freind Stephanie is coming to visit this weekend and the next weekend my grandma Losee is coming to visit. I am so exited!

Life....

Had to get a new bank account. After using the same bank for about 10 years I feel like I am back in the 50's using a bank that has very little online services. Just wish my old bank had a branch here in Las Vegas, but we will figure out how to do it anyway. I just can't give up the ease of online banking.

The house seems to be in a constant mess...I clean like mad then I turn around and clean again. That's the way it is when you have a house full. Actually if the kids did not help out with their chores I could not keep up. Yet, I think it is good for the kids to learn to hold up their share of the work.

I am missing having health insurance. Mike is working as a temporary hire right now and will not get insurance for maybe 6 months. I had to pay 122 dollars for a prescription yesterday... ouch.