one smart cookie

Av is just so smart. She picks up on things and just knows things. The other day I spelled cookie to my mom and Av piped up, “cookie momma.” We don’t really talk about cookies so I had no idea how she knew that. Then I was talking about how we needed to teach Camille the number 7 rule (Av can’t leave her room until there is a 7 as the first number on her clock) and she said, “like this momma?” and drew an imaginary 7 in the air. She said, “straight line down and then one over.” She could picture it in her head and describe it. Pretty smart. They just finished a unit on the 5 senses and she can now tell you exactly what her eyes, nose, mouth, ears and hands can do. She is amazing.

I am 3!!!

come on baby E you can do it!!!

Our schedule is crazy

Av goes to school M, T, T and F. On M and F she goes 9 to 12. On T and T both Av and C go to school from 9 to 5. Av has music at 1:15 on M. Av has speech on W at 10:30. Av has hbr (OT currently but switching to speech) at 5:00 on Thur. C has music on F at 9:20. We will soon add in there a PT that I will take Av to. We also will add in an OT but that will be while she is already at school so will not add to my stress. It’s a lot but it’s all good. We will take a break when baby E comes and when I don’t have the help to do it.

so happy!

I just got the best news. The therapy place that Av goes to has finally hired another speech therapist (the old one went on maternity leave and never came back and they had trouble getting a new one). Part of the speech program will be on the horse (it didn’t use to be in the past it was an hour of clinic work)!!!!! So Av will be horse back riding twice a week for a while. With our insurance we get 20 visits of each PT, OT and speech each year. I was sad last week to learn that we were on visit 18 of 20 for OT. So we will have to take a break from Miss Katie (so sad we LOVE her) but we only used 11 of 20 PT so we will be going back to Miss Becky and we have all 20 of speech so that will carry us to the end of the year. We also have met our deductible so that makes it kind of nice. So Av will be getting speech twice a week, PT once a week and I am working on getting OT once a week as well. There is a therapy company that comes to her school and does therapy with the children while they are there. We will have to pay for it but bc of her age we need to make sure and get her writing skills up to speed for K next year. It will be very worth it in the long run.

Camille is almost 2

I just really can’t believe it. She still is and always will be my baby. She cuddles up to me and I just think, “You are a baby!!! How can you be almost 2?” Especially when I see her all cuddled up sleeping I think, “you are just a baby.” She is. She sleeps all cuddled up like a baby with her butt up in the air and blanket and giraffe tucked up under her. She is trying very hard to give up her nap. At school on Tuesday she didn’t/wouldn’t nap and then we purposely skipped it yesterday. We had planned on it but she def is not ready to give it up. She fell asleep at 4 on the way home and was out. I carried her into the house and put her on the couch and she slept the whole time. Av covered her up with her blanket and gave her her giraffe and then re-covered her up a few more times and she slept through it all. She looked so cute and peaceful there on the couch even Av felt the need to bend down and hug her and that’s just what she did. She lay like that with her for a few minutes. Then it took both of us to wake her up. Once she did she bounced off the couch and started talking and talking like she had not missed a beat. We put them both to bed at 7:45 knowing they had had a big day and big school days today. She was up ready to go at 6:50 even after 2 days of no nap!! I just can’t believe it. She is just not a child that needs a lot of sleep. I don’t dare let her nap for more than an hour and even at that she fights sleep at night bc of it. She can run and jump (a real jump now with 2 feet off the ground) and she talks in 3rd person. It’s so cute!!! “Where’s Mille’s blankie?” or “Mille come with you.” Mille does this or does that. Love when I hear it. She is VERY attached to her blankie and giraffe. She gets more and more so every day it seems. They may come in the van with her but never leave the van so that is good at least. We are constantly looking for them though bc she carries them through the house with her and puts them in the stroller or in a back pack and then forgets and wants them minutes later. I really wish I had another set of them bc washing them is so hard and it needs to be done so frequently. Last time she cried in and out the whole almost 2 hours it takes to wash them. She cried hard too, like her heart was breaking for them. This week I was able to put them in the wash before we took Av to school and then I ran home between errands to put them in the dryer. I felt very accomplished that day bc she never noticed they were gone. Man the accomplishments that make you happy when you have kids are just weird. She knows her ABC’s, can count (now she skips 8 it was 4), can sing a lot of songs and we are working on colors. She knows them about 50% of the time. John came home yesterday and she said, “Daddy has white shirt on.” It was. She loves writing her “name” like Av can and doing anything with markers/crayons. She still loves Elmo and Sesame Street. Her favorite food is probably a meatball and she still talks with a lisp. It is very cute and sweet all at the same time. She is rough and we still have to worry about her biting. She is very lovey though and will run up to you and give you the tightest hug and wants nothing more than to be hugged back. She adores her daddy and is a big time daddy’s girl. On the weekends she wants daddy to get her out of her car seat. Not mommy which is hard bc she is on my side of the car. She loves dirt, rocks and sticks and knows before we go into the house after playing in the dirt we have to “wash off Mille’s tootsie toes!” She is bad and does not listen all that great. Very much has a mind of her own which in a way makes her ever cuter. She is one of a kind and we love her so! Happy Birthday my sweet little Camille.

Today was the day with Camille

Camille was born today in my pregnancy with her. I was exactly 39 weeks pregnant when she decided to come. It’s not looking like baby E is going to do the same thing. Never in a million years did I think he would pass 39 weeks. Being the 3rd and since Camille came at 39 I thought he would come a little earlier than that. Wow, boy was I wrong. We are all hanging in there though. Nothing really to report. Just still waiting. I go back to the doctor today. I so hope she has better news for me this week. I can’t take another “no change.” I think I will just lose it if I hear those words again, which is not good since I already wrecked the car last time. What will I do this time???? Kidding. I will handle it much more responsibly. I learned my lesson. This is my last schedule appointment. At the time no one thought I would ever make it this far. Guess I will be scheduling another for next week.

Sisters

They fight, oh boy do they fight, but they do love each other so much. It’s really cute to see them together when they are playing, laughing or having fun with each other. Camille talks a lot and is a pretty darn good talker for her age. The stuff she says just cracks me up and surprises me a lot of times. Sometimes though we have no idea what she is saying of course. Most of the time though Av does!!! It just melts my heart every time Av is able to translate for her. The bond they have is just really cool. Sometimes I ask Av what C just said or a lot of times she just tells us when we get that confused look on our face. Too cute! Last night at dinner Camille was saying something about a fork. I got that part and was trying to show her, her fork was right there. Av said, “No she wants a big girl fork.” Av was right made and the new fork made Camille instantly happy. Then there are other times when Av does not want “my little sister playing with anything” in their room bc she “messes it all up!” Those times are not so much fun.