Thursday, February 26, 2009

Sky Watch Friday

Here it is: Their Sky Watch Friday website says it is aplace to enjoy the views of the sky from around the globe. Its not for profit, not for awards, just a place to have some fun, and enjoy the beauty of the sky that others are able to capture. So I've decided to join in. I will attempt to post a Sky Watch post for each Friday! My first post is a shot from the backyard, after freezing rain in December 2008.


To see more Sky Watch Friday, check out their site!

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

A whole lot-a-nuffin

Not a lot going on since the last post. Cody's on the look out for a used bike. If anyone knows of one for cheap or free...please let us know.

Becca is funny with her little sayings lately. When playing and joking around with the boys (tim and Cody) she will often say,
" cody...your the best silly ever! "
If we ask her to repeat it, she will say "Nuffin (nothing), I'm just teasing!"

I think we are all itchin' with cabin fever. I'm soooo sick of winter. I hate to have the house closed up, hate when the blinds are closed, hate not being able to take Becca outside to spend some time. We're all bored with our surroundings and each other. I will say though, I love walking out of the house at 645 and it be light outside now. Becca even noticed this morning! Every time we pass a park or playground equipment, Becca will say, " I wanna go there when i'm bigger and its warm! " We've had to tell her that when the grass is green like a John Deere tractor, and its very warm outside, then we can. I just don't want her to think on the first 65 degree day we can go, when the parks are still muddy and dirty.

It'll all come soon enough. But it seems like its taking forever this year!

Thursday, February 19, 2009

April 6th

...will be Cody's first day at the MWI. He got the call last night. They will be contacting Cody soon on Landlord assignment and living arrangements. So that is still up in the air for the time being. I'm sure we'll start moving him on the Saturday the 4th, to be sure he's down there and settled for his first day.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

I SAW A ROBIN!!!!!!

Ok, as Cody made a point last night...."its a freakin' bird!" And I'm sure I'm a little overly exicted about Robins. But to my defense, I always have been, and I'm sure I always will be.



When I was little, probably 4 or 5 (mom could tell you for sure) I associated the first robin to my birthday being right around the corner. Ok really, my bday isn't until the end of May. But hey..thats how a little girl thinks!

So yes, Spring is on its was, yes...just like every other year. But the Robin makes it real to me!

Friday, February 13, 2009

Apple Tree Song

Words are: Way up in the Apple Tree Two little apples smiling at me I shake that tree as hard as I could Here comes the apples. CRUNCH Delicious!

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Relief!

Today Becca met with a speech therapist from AEA267 to evaluate some troubles she's had recently. We asked her Community United (her daycare) to line something up, because we were concerned with the amount of "stuttering" were have been hearing from her lately. Her teacher agreed, that it would be good to get an early evaluation to catch whatever the problem early.

I spoke with her therapist, Karen, yesterday afternoon and felt a little relief after we got off the phone. Karen believes that Becca is not a stutterer, however, because she's trying to keep up with the rest of us, and mimic our fast speach patterns, she's getting hung up. Becca is not repeating a sound of a word...like b-b-b-b-book. Rather, she's slowly elongating and repeating the whole word, like Booooooook, booooooook, boooooooook, book. There are times she will repeat a word as many as a dozen times or more. Mostly its the first word of a sentence.

Karen believes that Becca is not even aware that she has this "dysfluency" (not a stutter)...so we've been told NOT to stop her, slow her down, or tell her to start over. Because Becca's perseption is " why are they interupting me? " and could actually lead her to become aware of it, then it actually become a stutter from self conciousness.

Karen will be working with Becca once a week for several weeks and re-evaluate her after working this program. She gave us some pointers of how to influence her speech patterns and help her rephrase her sentences.

She was not overly concerned, and thought that it would be a fairly easy fix, but it would take a little time. She was amazed at Becca's vocabulary, infact, called it above average. We are encouraged by her visit with Becca and her first report.

Saturday, February 07, 2009

Beauty Shop

Well, Becca had a rare accident in the bed last night. Like a lazy parent does, that doesn't want her child to wake up completely and not get back to bed right away, I stripped her down, washed her at the sink, threw new jammies on her and put a towel over the spot in the bed. Does this make me a bad parent? hmmmm...

So after Bath, Becca and I played beauty shop. We both dried and curled our hair, she pretended to put on make-up while I did, and the result was fabulous! We've never curled Becca's hair, but it looks cute. Didn't take very long, and she was very cooperative. But I don't believe its something we'll do except for occasionally beauty shop days!

Thursday, February 05, 2009

Today was full of surprises......

....of the not wanted kind!

I woke up this morning with my sinus infection finding a new home in my right ear. I couldn't hear out of my right ear much at all and it was messing with my equalibrium. (spelling?) If I open my mouth too wide, yawn or cough, it pops and is very painful. So I called in sick, too Becca to daycare and sure enough, diagnosed with an inner ear infection. I hate that you have to go to the dr to have them tell you something you all ready know, but need their word for a prescription. Oh well.

So went to walmart to get the prescription and make a return, waited 30 minutes, and it still wasn't ready. I was enough off balance I didn't want to stick around anymore, so came home to rest. Figured after I picked becca up at 430, we could swing back by and pick it up.

Came home, rested, started feeling a bit better so got some de-cluttering done, and just started thinking about taking a nap, when Daycare called. Becca had a 102 temp and had to come home. So we both slept for a while, until my mom came over to stay with her so that I could go back out and get the prescription.

*sigh*

Tim and Cody are on their way home from Missouri. Expecting them late. I'm sure I'll have more to post in a couple of days about Cody's school plans!

Sunday, February 01, 2009

Happy Super Bowl Day!

We don't normally do anything crazy cool for the Superbowl. We're not the biggest Football fans, but enjoy watching the big game anyways. We probably fall into the group that watches more for the commercials, than the game or entertainment!
We were invited to bring the kids and hang out and my parents house for the game, and to enjoy some eats. Sounds like a plan to me!


Yesterday was another round at the gym for Becca! She did really well, after a pep talk and reminder to listen to the teachers. I think its safe to say that her least favorite thing is making a train to walk from one activity to another. I got a rare picture of her actually allowing the others to touch her shoulders. But seconds after this shot, she's shruggin them off and tell them not to touch her!
Becca did work the bars all by herself! She had a spotter, but she did her her trick 3 times without any help! What a girl! She also got her first chance on the big trampoline! From the picture I think she liked that!


Tim and Becca took advantage of the 40 degree weather after a nap, and made snowman! Becca didn't fully enjoy the process this year, and was not so thrilled that she kept getting stuck, hip deep in the snow. It was kinda comical if you ask me. But her crying told a different story!