A Reader in the Making

Olivia loves, loves, loves books. We read to her all the time and she just soaks it up. She has a few of the beginning reading books(#1) that we read. Lately though, she has been "reading" them to herself. She is very good at it. I know most of it is memorization as she doesn't get every word right, but she is definitely on the right track

Footloos, Footloose, Kick off your Sunday shoes...

Julianne Hough doesn't have anything on this girl.

*She better outgrow the tabletop dancing real quick :-).

Playing Catch Up...

Sorry for the delay in posts. We haven't been super busy but the days definitely seem to get away from me. Let's see, what has been going on. Daniel's grandpa Bill passed away last week, so we were home for a week for that. It was nice to go home but not for the circumstances for which we were there. Since Cooper has seizures, I don't feel comfortable leaving him at home for someone to come and let out 2x a day. So, not only did we have all of our stuff to take home, but we had both dogs as well. It took some adjusting but the dogs traveled VERY well and our girls traveled better than either of us could have expected. We definitely hit the kiddo jackpot with our little ladies. Their exceptional travels earned both of them new toys :-). While we were home, we got to do some of the things that we so desperately miss about St. Louis. We got to spend time with family, go to the zoo, and spend time with our best friends. Being home makes me miss our "old" life, but I know that we are in the place we are meant to be in. This trip home was a trial run for our trip home over Christmas, which gasp, is in two months.

Let's see what else. Olivia is still LOVING school. I am so very happy that we found a placement for her that she is thriving in. Daniel has been working a new schedule for the past month or so that has gotten both of us spoiled. He was 4 10's. We got used to the 3 day weekends. But this week he goes back to a M-F gig with every third Friday off. I am very anxious to see how it goes and see many late nights this new schedule creates.

I am getting excited for the upcoming holiday season. Anyone who knows me knows I look forward to Christmas every year. It takes every ounce of self control I have to hold off until the Friday after Thanksgiving to start decorating for Christmas. I have zero interior decorating abilities so I am hoping I can make our decorations look nice instead of gaudy. I have been trying to plan a little something for Cameron's birthday. That is probably one of the biggest disadvantages to being so far away from family, no one to come to birthday parties. Oh well, we will make the best of the situation and her birthday will be great.

Alrighty, enough of my rambling. Hopefully I will have some blog worthy stuff to blog about soon.

Just a little picture to get you through until next post :-)