Sorry, It's been awhile -

It has been quite a while since my last post. Here are a few updates: Joshua - survived the 7th grade and has been promoted. He is away at Youth camp until Friday. He is striving hard daily to survive his teenage years!

Emily - received the honor of Student of the Year. She is busy helping us every day with whatever needs to be done.

Caleb - finished up wonderfully in 3rd grade, looking forward to 4th. He will be getting braces this week.

Matthew - Is busy learning how to play Wii. He stepped on a piece of glass the MINUTE I got to camp this year. He got 6 stitches on the bottom of his foot.

Olivia - Is enjoying her time with Mema, loves wearing everyone else's shoes (and leaving them all over the floor). And, evidently loves her Vampire teeth from Peter Piper.

Abigail and Isabelle - are just being BUSY. They are climbing on EVERYTHING - counter tops and tables included. They must be watched like a hawk at all times. They also love playing in the toilet.

Other news:

Emily cut her hair off and donated it to Locks of Love. This is the 3rd time she has done that.

Matthew has a good time playing on the playground!

As I said earlier, the girls are climbing on everything. Here is a picture of Abby climbing to the top of the play set at the playground.

And this picture is just a fun one!

I'll try to be better at posting, I promise. ECI is seeing both girls now three times a month to help work on verbal skills (obviously motor skills are not a problem). They are saying new words every day. Abby repeated about 10 words during therapy friday and Isabelle repeated about 20. Everyone is growing so quickly!