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van de blog van de blog seriously i m going to blog about that later thursday august 2 2012 moved well i m officially set up at vandeblog com so head over and check it out and make sure you re subscribed over there you know if you re a subscriber all the archives are over there and i won t be posting here anymore posted by elsha at 9 34 pm 1 comment tuesday july 31 2012 daniel update did i tell you daniel s therapist is coming every two weeks now instead of once a month well she is and she was here on thursday she s impressed with the progress he s made although i think part of what she thinks was progress was really just that he was super tired last time she was here i mean he is definitely making progress but he was not up to par at his first july appointment also his caseworker okayed speech therapy starting at 9 months he rolls from front to back easily and often the day before his appointment he started pulling his knees up under himself which is great one step in a series of steps that lead to crawling and he s rolled front to back one time in his crib so soft surface probably made it easier he now naps with no swaddle and on his belly but we still swaddle him to sleep at night he s pretty vocal and likes to talk to himself when he first wakes up in the morning he smiles often but he ll only laugh for brian and i think that s all that s new with daniel these days posted by elsha at 9 25 pm 4 comments labels down syndrome early intervention monday july 30 2012 first books good news shalini posted a survey about books my very favorite things so today i m answering those questions and you don t have to listen to more ridiculous things my kids say first book i loved a little princess by frances hodgson burnett this wasn t the first chapter book i read but it is the first one i remember loving i think i was 8 when i read it for the first time or 9 maybe i still have my copy and you bet i ll be reading it to kalena first book i hated anna karenina by leo tolstoy i m not much of a book hater and i m not even sure that i actually hated this one but i do remember being annoyed by the characters in particular i felt like all anna s problems were her own fault and i had no sympathy for her however i read this when i was 19 and i haven t read it since so my opinion could be totally different if i read it now i didn t hate wuthering heights the first time i read that at 17 but hated all the characters when i read it a few years ago so first series i read the little house on the prairie books by laura ingalls wilder i had read this whole series by the time i was 9 or 10 and i ve read all the books many times i love these books i could probably have put them in the first book i loved category but it seemed like cheating to put in a whole series and how could i just pick one first fantasy sci fi book i read i m putting two books down here because fantasy and sci fi are very different fantasy the lion the witch and the wardrobe by c s lewis an excellent series sci fi ender s game i think i was 12 the first time i read this book i love it every time also it s one of the few books that i recommend to basically everyone first book that made me cry from laughing um none i rarely laugh until i cry and i ve never read a book that funny first young adult book i read and loved twilight i m not going to apologize for liking it also it was pretty much the first ya book i ever read since i don t think anything was labeled young adult when i was a young adult first horror book i read the shining by stephen king i can t guarantee that the shining was actually the first horror book i read but i can assure you that if it wasn t something else by stephen king was i m kind of a stephen king fan i ve read many of his books first book i was completely obsessed with i don t know this seems like a horrible way to end this survey but i tend not to obsess over things and i can t come up with a book i ve obsessed over your turn posted by elsha at 6 37 pm 5 comments sunday july 29 2012 almost there well my lovely readers i m almost set up on my new blog very exciting for me for you it s just elsha rambling as usual anyway still a few things to do but it s getting there posted by elsha at 8 15 pm 3 comments saturday july 28 2012 i know i keep writing these i keep forgetting to put this on my other posts about kalena she says she s shooting flies when she shoos them as in daddy shoot that fly away on a completely unrelated note do you know how exhausting it is to live without kitchen counters exhausting posted by elsha at 8 11 pm 4 comments friday july 27 2012 4 year well visit as you know kalena turned 4 in may but because of the way i scheduled her well visit last year she couldn t come in this year until july anyway it was on wednesday and here are her stats height 3 ft 6 inches weight 38 lbs 9 6 oz i would tell you the percentages but i don t have them written down both still on the higher end 80 90 or so they also checked her eyes this visit which i d been wondering about not her eyes in particular just when they would do it they used a chart with shapes and had her list the shapes instead of reading letters i m curious how they ll check daniel s eyes since he obviously won t be listing shapes when he gets them checked in a couple months i asked about her tonsils since they seem big to me and we got a referral to an ent i lean toward wanting to get them out if they re big since i had to have mine out when i was 22 and it sucked the pediatrician said her threshold is also fairly low because she had hers out at 16 anyway she did say that kids can grow out of oversized tonsils usually by age 5 or 6 so the ent might ask us to wait a year and see anyway that s about it she s healthy happy as always posted by elsha at 1 10 pm 3 comments thursday july 26 2012 i think i d prefer butterscotch did i ever tell you about the time my grandma made my dad a peanut butter and butterscotch sandwich well you may remember she was basically blind and we had a smucker s jar of butterscotch which looked a lot like a jar of jelly so one day my grandma was making my dad lunch which she insisted on doing and she got out the butterscotch instead of the jelly she realized partway through making it that it wasn t jelly but she served it to my dad anyway and he ate it despite thinking it tasted funny we ve laughed it that story many times since then fast forward to dinner time tonight i asked kalena if she d like me to make her a sandwich and she told me she d like a peanut butter and jellyfish sandwich ahahaha yuck posted by elsha at 8 27 pm 5 comments labels quotable kids wednesday july 25 2012 i guess he knows the rules yesterday i was putting something away upstairs while the kids were playing downstairs and daniel was sleeping all of a sudden i hear kalena start wailing as i came down the stairs i asked what happened and she informed me that will had thrown the egg a wooden toy egg at her face so i continued toward the room they d been playing in and in my best stern mom voice i started will at which point i heard his little toddler voice say from the dining room i sittin in time out yep as soon as kalena had started crying he d trotted himself over to the time out chair and put himself in time out that kid man he always knows just when to be cute posted by elsha at 9 29 pm 3 comments labels quotable kids tuesday july 24 2012 kalena tidbits yesterday we talked about will so today we ll talk about kalena one of my favorite things is that she has picked up the phrase hey what s the big idea and uses it often a while back she started asking for a big squishy hug before bed meaning a hug where you squish her which was amusing on its own because she made squishing motions with her fingers and scrunched up her face when she did it but then she started calling it a big squishy pizza hug and now it just makes me laugh also sometimes after the hug she ll ask was that a big pizza hug why she added the word pizza in there i ll never know but she does it every time she still says last er day for anything before today i think i mentioned that before but it s still one of my very favorites she calls her forehead her fort head always makes me imagine her having a fortress in her head and i m sure i ll think of something else as soon as i publish this posted by elsha at 8 59 pm 2 comments labels quotable kids monday july 23 2012 more of will a few more tidbits about will he says many words as if they begin with an f trucks are frucks his crib is his frib and of course his crab shirt is his frab shirt also the other day he told me he was just hiding in the floset i never want this to stop if you ask him what a cat says he ll tell you mee mow he knows he s not a baby we already talked about that but he also knows um maybe because we ve been telling him this repeatedly that big boys use a potty instead of diapers since he would like to never use the potty ever thank you very much he insists that he s a little boy we often have this conversation me will are you a baby will laughing no i not a baby me oh so you re a big boy then will no i not a big boy i a wittle boy he s pretty much the cutest posted by elsha at 10 30 pm 4 comments labels quotable kids older posts home subscribe to posts atom subscribe to posts atom posts all comments atom all comments followers family eric amy kari jonathan kirsta joe friends ally chris amy brandon ashleigh richie brimaca family jaimie nate katie bob laura jared mardi chris salem company sarah john stephanie jason about me brian elsha blog archive 2012 135 august 1 moved july 31 june 13 may 15 april 21 march 19 february 17 january 18 2011 202 december 16 november 30 october 13 september 9 august 14 july 20 june 14 may 15 april 16 march 17 february 18 january 20 2010 201 december 23 november 30 october 7 september 14 august 9 july 12 june 18 may 19 april 17 march 12 february 17 january 23 2009 138 december 8 november 30 october 5 september 13 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