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Or she might still just be sick from before. She's throwing up again and looks pretty miserable.
She was okay during Christmas and it really wasn't too strenuous on her, we had a pretty relaxing Christmas. We got to see family this year but she still kept up her schedule of falling asleep by 3 or 4 pm so if we opened presents or tried to do something after that time she was zonked. Bill and his family stopped by on the Saturday before Christmas. It was really fun to see them (if you guys could e-mail me some pictures that would be great!) and after we all went downstairs and Rachel was still upstairs she started "complaining"- once we brought her downstairs with the rest of us she didn't make a peep.
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Here's Kaleigh in her Mad Bomber hat.
Here's Kaleigh doing a good job holding her head up.
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Luke came home with a new puppy yesterday, with all we have going on I'm not so sure if I'm sold on the idea of two dogs. (We already have Bailey.) But Rachel LOVES the new puppy! She reached her hand out to pet it and was doing a great job tracking it with her eyes. She has the biggest grin on her face when we bring the puppy in to see her.
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The other day Rachel came home from therapy with the beginnings of her communication board. She likes to bounce on one of those big therapy balls so on the piece of plexiglass are two squares of paper. One has a basic picture that is a big person standing behind a little person that is sitting on the ball. The ball is colored in to match Rachel's ball and it says "Bounce" on the square. Then lower on the plexiglass is a picture of an arrow pointing away from the ball and it says "Off". I'll try to get a picture of it and Rachel bouncing on the ball when I get the chance. So if we hold it up for Rachel to see and she looks at the "Bounce" she gets to bounce on the ball. If we show her the board and then looks at "Off" then she gets to get off. They also sent home other words with illustrations like book, turn page, blocks, bed, stop, blow bubbles, and a few more. Check back to this post later when I eventually post the pictures.
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Probably not a title you expect to see on Rachel's site, huh?
On Sunday Hudson and Luke were wrestling in the living room at Grandma's house. Rachel was on the couch so Luke had Hudson lay on his stomach on the floor so Rachel could "wrestle" and "body slam" him. Nope, not as bad as it sounds, he just held her as we normally do and made her bounce on his back and had her punch him or had her lay on the ground next to him and kick him. She didn't have her speaking valve in but from the big smiles on her face I bet she would have been noisy! At one point she did a really great job holding up her head on her own while Luke was having her sit up and punch at Hudson.
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At therapy yesterday her OT said that Rachel's arms don't turn down very well while out and at a 90 degree angle. (Kind of like you're signaling for a turn when your blinkers aren't working.) So it's a good thing OT has started back up and we can work on stretching that back out again.
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Sorry I haven't updated lately. Rachel's feeling a little better but she's still thrown up once a day or so. She hasn't had therapy or school for a while either so there hasn't been much new going on. It's getting close to Christmas when Bill said he'd stop for a visit. (Rachel's so excited
) "I miss Bill" is a catch phrase around the house, especially on Saturday mornings when at 8:00 we'd hear either Bill or Hudson exclaim "It's Cartoon Day!" when Bill arrived. Last Saturday Emily was the first person we've had on a Saturday since he left. Otherwise I'd usually be doing meds at 8:00 and when the "Signing time with Alex and Leah" theme song would start playing I'd half expect to hear Bill downstairs. So the catch phrase started where one of us would say, "No Bill." and then the other would say "I miss Bill." Even Hudson joins in with an "I miss Bill." Maybe he just misses Bill's potato chips that he used to snitch. [ add comment ] | permalink | related link
Rachel threw up twice yesterday and is still really gunky with a cold but she was less crabby by the afternoon.
I didn't get to see her awake for very long because I brought Kaleigh to her checkup. (She's 14 lbs now.)
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We kept Rachel home from school since she's still a little sick. She's not that bad anymore but it's so cold out today!
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Rachel might be sick. She threw up a couple of times last night but she didn't have a fever or act like she felt bad. One of her night nurses had a stomach bug so she might have something.
Keep her in your prayers today, we kept her home from therapy because she looked a little crabbier than usual.
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We no longer have an official "leave a note of encouragement" section anymore but please feel free to leave a note! It always make our day to hear from someone!
Under any one of the entries click on "add comment". The nice thing about the new system is your comment won't be on the main page. Just putting in your name is fine, you don't actually have to put in your e-mail address or the other info it asks for.
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Pretty last minute the kids and I went down to Duluth on Saturday afternoon. Luke stayed up north to go black powder hunting. I brought Hudson and Kaleigh to Hudson's friend's birthday party while Grandma watched Rachel. Then Hudson picked out a Christmas tree with Grandpa. We all made Christmas cookies and even Rachel helped measure ingredients. Then we went to church the next morning and afterwards decorated the Christmas tree and by that time it was already time to go back up north! (We had to leave by three.) I also got to sew up some blankets for Rachel's future cousin that's due next month! So sorry to all the people in Duluth that I didn't touch base with, it was last minute and the weekend was already pretty rushed.
Here's all three watching TV.
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Rachel had a great day in therapy today. Usually Luke has to leave because she thinks it's time to go so she won't do anything if he stays to watch therapy. She still did really well, she was talking up a storm in speech therapy. They would ask questions and she would seem to respond at the right times. She doesn't speak words but you can tell the intent is there. Sometimes it even sounds as if she's attempting a word that she wants to say. They asked if she liked daddy or mommy best and she said something that started with an "M" sound. They asked if daddy was pretty and she kind of said "Nah" but when they asked if daddy was handsome she made a more affirmative sound.
Then in PT she was just yelling/laughing when they played on the exercise ball. After she pulls her head forward she gets rewarded by getting rolled back and forth on the ball on her back while her therapist holds onto her legs. When she got to roll she was so excited and so LOUD! Luke said it was very cute. She was pretty crabby when it was time to get off of the ball. She was extra crabby and yelling at Bev when they did an exercise she didn't like on the swing. She also did great knocking down the blocks with her leg.
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Joe has helped me change the format of the site so now it's more like a blog. I'll be able to add pictures and create new pages on my own now so hopefully I'll get pictures up more often. On the links side, I made extra pages that might give more background info to someone who's relatively new to the site. You can even be updated by RSS feed and if you know what that is you're already more tech savy than I am. I'm still tweaking things so if you have any more ideas let me know!
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