long time no post!!!

its been a busy summer, but i think this week was the craziest and its not over yet!! I have been trying to paint the kitchen cupboards white, and spent as much spare time as possible working on that durning Tabitha's naps. on thursday, I called the junk removal people so that we could get rid of a slowly getting bigger pile of yard waste by the side of the house. well, wouldn't you know, 6 baby kittens had made their home in that pile! we kept them in a kennel that we just happened to have for the night and tried to feed them but they were still pretty little so I don't think they were quite weaned yet. i dropped them off at the humaine society the next morning after dealing with a sobbing chloe who wanted to keep on of them despite the fleas and that their Daddy is allergic to cats. then matthew's parents are coming tomorrow night for 4 days so i've also been busy getting ready for that only to get a phone call from my neighbor who is all panicked because both their cats have tapeworms and fleas...so I spent this morning at the vets with her and then I took the kids to the annual cornfest which is very close by. we decided to drive anyway even though it was only a few km's. its a good thing too, because chloe actually won a HUGE teddy bear playing one of those hard games where you throw the baseball into a jar which only has a big enough opening for the ball.!! the thing is almost as big as her and a little bit bigger than amber! Tabitha looks tiny next to it LOL. Tabitha went on her first kiddy ride today and it was fun to watch the expressions on her face. speaking of Tabitha, she's had a few more appointments and all the specialists agree there isn't anything wrong with her, she's just lacking in confidence. her talking has come a long way and she is standing by herself now with increasing frequency. I've been practicing sight words with amber, and she has 23 of them memorized already!! That's really about it, and its time to get back to work,..company coming tomorrow after all....

i can't think of a good title for this post

It's been a cooler summer than usual, which for us means no blistering thirty degree weather, but it also means the pool isn't as warm as usual and i'm afraid i've become a wimp and don't like going in the pool unless its eighty degrees. i've been busy keeping the kids busy, and i have a long list of therapy things to do with both Amber and Tabitha now. Tabitha's language is atleast a year behind, and her motor skills are delayed too, but the other day she stood by herself for the first time!! she seems more brave with daddy than with me. We're actually looking into sending her to a toddler program 3 mornings a week at the montessori school nearby, in hopes that it will help her to bridge some of those gaps. I've kind of come to the conclusion that at the moment, everything else has to take a number, and my main focus has to be the kids in order to give them the best chance possible to catch up and succeed at school and life. I guess that's why I haven'te been on here much...that and the computer's been acting up...