Playing Catch-up

Hi All,

No I didn't take a short haidas from blogging. I have been busy. First let me tell you that I hated how my blog looked. I really did. I have changed it several times and I still am not crazy about how it looks. I have seen so many really professional looking blogs out there and I am very jealous. So, I went back to square one and tried to redo mine over again. So, again I am not totally satisfied but I guess it will do for now.

On the homefront...We were all sick this past week. Some funky sinus, ear infection, cold thing going around. It knocked me out for a few days. Gwynny had been sick for over a week so I took her to the doctor on Wednesday only to find out that she had an ear infection. Good and Bad...Good because we now know part of why she was coughing so much. Bad...because she has to take an antibiotic, and she has to be on Claritin for a month to help with the cough thing she has and if it doesn't improve we will have to look into other options. Thank the Lord, Lily is ok. I took her to the doctor on Friday even though she only had the cough a couple of days prior. I am always paranoid when it comes to her. I went on Friday as well and found out I have a sinus infection. Bill as usual dodged a bullet and just had a bit of a cold for a couple of days. Lucky guy! So life was slowed down just a bit at times this past week.

Gwynny...starts preschool Tuesday...YEAH!, YEAH!, YEAH!, ahummm...did I do that? LOL! We had orientation this past Tuesday evening and I can tell she is really going to enjoy it. She was obsessed with these dress-up clothes they had there and of course one of the outfits was a Princess Jasmine costume and she can't wait to get into that thing! That is all she talked about the next day. I think we are about ready for the big first day. Got some new shoes Friday at the mall and she got lots of new clothes with her birthday money so she should be good to go. It's amazing how many things kids need and I am told it only gets more expensive once they actually go to regular school. Woo Hoo! So much to look forward to. I'll post pictures after Tuesday of her big day.

About Lily...well we went back to the opthomologist this past week to get her eyes rechecked. If you all remember she was diagnosed as being near-sighted. Well, after waiting around for about 45 minutes for her eyes to dilate the doctor confirmed that she definitely needs glasses NOW! He feels that it would not be fair to her development if she was not able to see things clearly beyond about a foot. I agree. So, we begin the search for frames and lenses for our baby girl. I know that I definitely want her to get these frames called Specs4Us because they were designed especially for children with Ds. A woman here in the Cleveland area actually designed them because she saw a need for them based on her own daughter's issues who has Ds. Here is a link to the website in case anyone is interested. http://www.specs4us.com/ The link you want to click once you get there is on the left and it's called "Erin's World". Check it out. My biggest problem right now is coming up with the money for all this. Will have to pray and trust that the Lord will take care of it. Everything else with her is about the same. Still plugging away with OT and PT, oh and we did add Speech on this past week as well. Speech therapist sounds pretty good so we will see how that pans out.

Well, it's late and Gwynny has been up at least 4 times telling me she doesn't want to sleep. Too afraid she might miss something I guess. Lily's IFSP meeting is in the morning and we have a busy week ahead of us. Hopefully, I will have some time to check in here and put my thoughts down on paper, so to speak. Till later... God Bless You and hope everyone has a blessed week!