Status of the Family-

So it's been a while since I last posted-again.  Seems that here is where I actually can document the kids' milestones.  Kate is walking.  She started around 11 months taking some steps and was doing some good walking on her birthday.  Now its almost a month past her birthday and she is everywhere.  We like to call her Little Destructo.  From clenched teeth.  Kidding.  Sometimes.   She has an amazing vocabulary.  I am trying not to compare her to Talia who spent 10 1/2 months in Russia with no stimulation and had a hearing loss thanks to ear infections for almost a year after she arrived in SC.  Kate can say and/or sign yes, more (3 different ways), dada, rain, pretty, sleep, dirty, uh oh, wow, TaTa, JuJu, ball, bottle, cat...I think I'm forgetting things.  Notice no mention of mama...She still says "that" when she gets real excited to see me...but nothing else.  She is working on thank you and fish now.  She ate baby food for a couple of weeks until she realized that we were not eating baby food and she turned her head away from any baby food I tried to give her.  So, I cut up a lot of food for her.  She eats almost every single food we've introduced.  She thiefed some grilled salmon on night and ate it voraciously...loves guacamole...macaroni and cheese...wheat bread..Very strange child.

Talia, on the other hand, who is only 9 pounds heavier that her, eats so very little.  We've been trying different things this summer-hoping to get her overall affect improved-sorta a little experimenting as her doctor says.  Also Talia is going to the Perceptual Motor Lab at USC where she is getting therapy twice a week for visual perception, balance, fine and gross motor skills, etc.  Started a new medicine that we hope can allow us to reduce her Adderal.  Hope.  She actually swallowed the pill by herself with granddaddy's urging! That was amazing.  She is very excited to be a 1st grader, but not to go back to school. 

Kate has been sick so often this summer that I feel I haven't gotten anything done,,,finally she got tubes on July 24.  Hopefully that will be the end of  the infections.