Family

X-MAS

Merry BELATED Christmas!

APPARENTLY WARM X-MAS’s R NO GOOD. THE KIDS KEEP TALKING HOW THEY MISS SNOW & WANT 2 MOVE BACK 2 INDIANA, YET THE CAR SEAT IS 2 COLD AT 50 DEGREES! THIS WAS IN THEIR STOCKINGS: (INSTANT SNOW)

ANYWAY, SORRY IT’S BEEN AWHILE! I HAVEN’T BEEN ON ENOUGH SINCE 12/21! I’LL WRITE LATER, BUT, LIKE ME, THE KIDS ALL GOT CAMERAS 2 (CAN U BELIEVE FISCHER-PRICE MAKES A DIGITAL CAMERA?) — THEY’RE SOOO EXCITED! NOW I GET PICS OF DRAWINGS & LEGO CREATIONS!

SAT.

FUNNY STORY:

AT 4, SOPHIE LOVES RIDES ON MOM’S LAP IN THE WHEELCHAIR, FEED MOM, READ TO MOM, HAVE MOM KISS OWIES & PLAY KITCHEN W/MOM. SO SHE’S W/MOM A LOT, & SEEING HER TRACHE SCAR IS NOT NEW, YET IN DEC. 2006, SHE ANNOUNCED, ‘I CAN SEE YOUR STROKE HOLE!’

I NOW HAVE A LIST I MUST COMPLETE DAILY. READ W/HER IS ON THAT LIST. & BOY, CAN SHE TALK’AT ALMOST 9 PM WE READ LAST NIGHT – BUT I DIDN’T GET 2 BED UNTIL 9:50!

BTW, THE KIDS HAVE STARTED OCCASIONALLY HELPING W/SWIM THERAPY. THE 1st TIME, MARK INTRODUCED ‘STAND-UP HUGS’ W/ME. 2DAY, ZACH REQUESTED A ‘STAND-UP HUGS’ W/ME. THIS COMES AS NO SURPRISE. MARK & ZACH R OLDER. THEY REMEMBER THE PAST & ENJOY ANY MEMORY OF IT. I JUST CRY. THE GIRLS ENJOY IT 2, BUT 2 A DIFFERENT DEGREE. A WHILE AGO, I LAUGHED & CHOKED BAD ON FOOD. MARK KNOWS THIS STIMULATES MY VOCALS. AFTER HE KNEW I WASN’T DYING, HE DIRECTED ME 2 SAY EVERY1’S NAMES, Z & J ARE SOME I CANNOT DO, BUT I MANAGED A SLOPPY VERSION OF EVERY1’S NAME (ASK ME NOW, & I COULDN’T DO IT) ZACH WAS DELIGHTED. SO WAS MARK. THE GIRLS WERE TERRIFIED AT 1st, I WAS DYING. I WASN’T EXCITED. IT DIDN’T SOUND GREAT 2 ME, & AM I SUPPOSED 2 CHOKE MYSELF EVERYTIME I WANT 2 TALK?

PRESCHOOL

FIA STARTS PRESCHOOL 2DAY. U’D THINK I’D BE SAD 2 C MY LAST BABY START, BUT I’M NOT BECAUSE I HAVEN’T TALKED 2 HER IN 2 YRS., & WHILE I KNOW IT’S A WAY OFF, SHE CAN RECOGNIZE WHEN I DO MOST OF THE ASL LETTERS, SO STARTING SCHOOL JUST MEANS SHE’S CLOSER 2 LEARNING 2 READ & SPELL! BESIDES, SHE’S SOOO READY & NEEDS IT! & AM I ALLOWED 2 SAY I’M LOOKING 4WARD 2 A FEW UNINTERRUPTED HOURS A FEW DAYS & I’M GLAD I DON’T HAVE 2 PICK HER UP MIDDAY. (MARK SHOULD BE GLAD IT’S 3, NOT 5, 1/2 DAYS!)

TUES.-WED.

I SHOULD PROB. MENTION THAT WE CONQUERED SOMETHING HUGE, THAT 2 YEARS AGO WAS ?ED. YESTERDAY, MARK WENT 2 CA, 2 TAKE THE KIDS 2 MY SISTER & BIL (BROTHER-IN-LAW) HOUSE. I STAYED HERE. IT WAS SHORT-MARK IS BACK, & I’M ALIVE. MY CARETAKER, BROTHER, & SIL (SISTER-IN-LAW) HELPED MAKE IT POSSIBLE