I know, I know. What have I been doing that is so important that I haven't blogged?

Ok, no more excuses on why I haven’t been blogging. We have moved and are now settled in a beautiful home a whole four houses down from where we lived before. For those of you who aren’t in touch with us on a regular basis: our house sold in 10 days with a cash offer. I don’t know about you but I was pretty stressed out. Plus, Philip was out of town for four of those days. Needless to say I have been busy organizing and cleaning.
Lillian has had a personality flip on us. Once our outgoing, always had to have a friend over and who loved school: now doesn’t like hardly anyone, thinks everyone is against her, and loathes going to school. The transformation is very noticeable even to friends that stop in only once in a while. Philip and I will be interviewing a therapist on Tuesday to see if he might be able to help her. My mom thinks she has ‘post traumatic stress syndrome’ from her surgery in August and recent behavior has pointed to that. Lillian continues to love reading and reads chapter books with a little help here and there.
Marissa is growing up so fast that I feel that if I blink she will be a teenager. She has been going to preschool and loves it. Although I should point out that she says that she ‘hates going’ but she is just copying what Lillian says. She sings all the way to school and back. So you might say ‘that the proof is in the pudding’ or something like that. We had to chop off her hair to her chin because she kept cutting it herself. The hair cut is very cute and very Marissa. She also has mastered doing puzzles and is so proud of herself.
Matt is walking! Well, not totally yet. But he walks when he thinks no-one is watching. He is so carefully and if he talked I could just imagine him saying ‘woo woo’. He is going to ‘kids on the move’ classes and hates it. We are trying to get him to communicate with words rather then just pointing but he gets so so so frustrated. So why bother? Well, the kid started biting and banging his head when he did not get something that he wanted. So since we were concern about possible brain damage from the banging and since being bitten every couple of hours wasn’t working for me he is learning to communicate in a more constructive manner. Matt has only been hospitalized once for breathing issues since we have been home from his surgery in Aug. and it was only for one day!
Well…, after re-reading my blog it sounds like things are hard, but they really are going well. But anything is better then being in the hospital. Our holiday plans are us staying here for Thanksgiving and going to San Diego for Christmas. If you will be in either area during those times and want to get together, please contact me so we can see you too.