Early Christmas Presents

Yes, Virginia I Do Believe...

Early Christmas presents rock! I wanted to share with you a few early presents we have received this year.

Madison is loving first grade. She has learned how to read and has developed a love for it that I can only hope she keeps. She has also started word problems in math that have been a pretty regular homework assignment for her. Out of all the spelling tests she has finished this year she has only missed one word - period. I think that deserves a big high five. She has lost not one, but two teeth. Both bottom middle teeth are missing in action although her "grown-up" teeth are growing quickly, her Papaw still kids that she shouldn't eat spaghetti because it will just slide back out.

Noah has fully healed from his hand surgery last November. Although the hope was to get more mobility out of the pinky finger by loosening up the tendon from the bone the pinky remains straight with no function to him at all. Noah will head for a check up in January and the possibility of more surgery is just around the corner. Noah started Pre-school and that has given him a serious jump start to his vocabulary. We had Noah tested earlier because he simply wasn't talking understandably and we thought something might be wrong. Turns out he just needed to be around kids his own age for awhile and now the conversations never end. And that's a good thing. Recently we took Noah to the doctor to have, in his words, "his spots" checked out. Turns out he has eczema and now gets rubbed down in vasoline a couple times a day. He says, "spots all gone".