Calantha

I'm still here too! Just got back from vacation in TX to visit my little brother and his family. Isabelle is starting another round of surgeries next Tuesday and the one thing she wanted to do more than anything else was go swimming before surgery, since she'll pretty much not be allowed for the whole summer! So, we decided to go somewhere warm! The kids had a blast and Isabelle has decided she wants to be a cowgirl when she grows up (in addition to being a doctor). She got to ride my sister in law's horses and she just fell in love. Poor kid we had to drag her kicking and screaming away from them when it was dinner time! She's still in school though she'll be missing a month or so because of the surgery. She's learning sooo much and she's such a smart girl. She knows all her letters when she sees them and can even recognize some words! She has one of those leapster learning video game systems and she loves to play her Clifford game, which focuses on reading. Yesterday in the car I heard her spell bus and cat! She also loves to sing. Unfortunately, she has some speech problems which I plan to bring up with the doctor this week, which make singing pretty difficult. She tends to skip over whole words or parts of words when she's talking. For example, "I don't feel good today" is "I not food today". Just recently she's started to stutter too, so we're definitely going to have a talk with the doc... unfortunately, with surgery coming up, it'll be a while before we can even take her for an eval
Sam is 4.5 going on 17. He doesn't want to do little boy things, he wants to be a big boy. He prefers my PSP to his Leapster, he gets mad when we say he's too little for skateboard lessons, he's gone through 3 girlfriends at school this year, one of whom he swears he KISSED, he wants a tattoo, he wants to know how old he has to be before I'll let him play my RPG video games, and he thinks he could drive our car if we'd just move the peddles closer! Oy!

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