It's Been Awhile

I haven't posted in awhile so I'll try and catch you up.

Anna's been doing really well. She gets stronger every day and talks more and more putting words together as well as adding new words to her vocabulary. She only has about three more months left before she turns three and transitions to the Board of Education for her early intervention. She'll attend school five mornings a week which will be a bit of an adjustment from her two days a week. But all of her therapy will take place in school so once she's done at 11:30 am every day, we'll be free to have play dates, run errands and just live our lives! No more arranging my day over a hour therapy session later in the day. I'm definitely looking forward to that.

So as you can see by the date, we're a week away from Christmas. Anna has seen Santa from afar a couple of times now. She seems less intimidated by him every time we walk past him in the mall, but I'm not going to push it this year. Too many moms have told me that their child won't sit on his lap so I figured what's the point - we'll just wait until she seems more excited about it; doesn't make sense to me to push her into it.

She recognizes Santa now since we have a bunch of images of him on our tree. Uncle Michael brought her a Santa ornament and when asked who he was she said 'Santa' - very exciting!

Dave and I are getting over the flu so Anna has been with Grandma and Granddad (or as she calls them 'FaFa' and 'FaFa'!). We're so grateful to have them so close. Thanks for watching after her and keeping her well. I was informed this morning that she has a bit of a cough but that's not unusual for her so hopefully it won't amount to anything. We haven't come this far for Anna to get sick as well! At least we have the comfort of knowing she had a flu shot so hopefully that will fend off any truly evil germs!

Well, I have some more detailed stories to tell from the last six weeks or so of holiday fun starting with Thanksgiving, but I'll check back in a little later. Need to make up for some lost sick time!