Happy Friday!

Big news from Alison!  She is using the potty, her teacher last week said let's just put her in underwear and amazingly she is doing great.  She started out a little rough, but after a few days she figured it out and has not had one accident in a few days.  Of course she is still in diapers at night, but we are SOOOOOOO proud of her.   Alison is doing so well with her speech therapy she is becoming a little more understandable.  She is working on whistles right now to strenghten her airflow and it is hard for her.  Alison still refuses to eat and is basically living on her high calorie formula three times a day which we have to almost force her to drink. She is now lagging significantly behind in weight to Lauren, she weighs about 26 lbs. which is only 1/4 lb gain in 4 months. The GI doctor has tried meds for appetite increase, nothing, meds for reflux, nothing, now higher calorie formula, nothing. What's next.....we shall see in January.

 Lauren is doing very well, nothing new to report, in Lauren's world that is great news.  She has been steadly gaining weight and is up to 29 lbs and looking so tall. 

Taylor is keeping busy with all her after school activities.  She is taking a drawing class, girl scouts, and playing an oompa loompa in the school play of Willy Wonka, and taking her swimming lessons.  Swimming is her favorite and she has been taking lessons thru the city's rec program for 3 years and she is a really great swimmer, which is a necessity living so close to the ocean.  Although she hates the ocean, but I am kinda of glad since it is so dangerous.  I remember moving here at the age of 30 and being so scared of the powerful waves.

Skylor is now 9 months old and a spitfire.  She weighs 21 lbs and is 28.5 inches long.  She is so energetic and happy, changing her diaper is like wrestling an aligator in a mud pit, she will not lay still and thinks it is SO funny.  She is a great little sleeper (like all my girls) she sleeps from 5:30 pm to 6am, with one or two naps during the day depending on the therapy schedule.  She is power crawling everywhere and is starting to pull herself up, but still only to her knees.   She eats well and is able to use her pincer grasp to put puffs in her mouth.  She loves to play peek-a-boo and hide and seek around the couch with anyone.  She loves to growl like a monster and scream when you put her in her "baby jail".

Taylor just announced that "Skylor is ruining my life, even though she is cute and everything"  Taylor is trying to play with her pet shops and Skylor is trying to eat them all :0)

Have a great weekend!