The Adventures of Old Cow and New Cow

There hasn't been too many adventures of the Cows in a long while. Will has refrained from putting them in the toilet or the dog bowl in ages. Mr. Cow has not seen water (except the washing machine) since we lived in the hotel! It's a record!!

But they did manage an adventure yesterday...

Will thought that they needed a time out in the dog cage!

We have a Girl Scout!

On Monday evening Caroline was officially inducted into the Girl Scouts. She is in a Daisy troop, for kindergartners and first graders. At the meeting they had to recite the Girl Scout Pledge, were given a smock and a certificate. She was so proud and can't wait for the upcoming events!

Oh...cookie sales starts in January!!

Chili Day

Every year my grandma Forcum has an annual Chili Day. She makes awesome chili. Family and friends go to her house for a bonfire, hot dogs, marshmallows, chili and chatting!

She had a great turnout this year. There were lots of people there and the weather was perfect!

It was hard to take pictures because Josh and I were both trying to run after William. But I managed a few...


Mikkah and his brownie (that he dropped on the ground AT LEAST 5 times!)


Caroline with her Grandpa Chris (my dad). She was chatting him up while he roasted her a hot dog!

Caroline with Aunt LeLe (my sister).

Josh and The Stitch!

Grandma!! No pictures of you! How did I manage to do that??

Just Something I made

I have a friend that just had a baby and I wanted to make the baby a little something. I came up with this...

Binky holders!

She had a baby boy, so I made one with brown and blue polka dot ribbon and one with Halloween spider ribbon. I also used snaps and suspender clips.

All I did was cut my ribbon and melt the ends with a lighter (to prevent fraying). I put snaps on each end (one to attach to the binky and one to attach to the suspender clip). And that was it!

I hope that my friend isn't reading this!!

What has Will been up too?

Communicating!! That is what!!! This is Will's communication station...

His teacher and speech therapist came to the house last week to teach me how to use his PECS boards. We have been doing this at home since last Thursday and let me tell you that it is empowering!

We put the board on a wall in the kitchen for now because Will is just learning. But in the future he can take the board/book with him when he goes places. The idea is that when Will wants something he goes to the board, takes the picture of what he wants and brings it to me. I then give him what is on the picture. His pictures are: Cow, cup, pretzels and various toys. It is amazing. I cried when his teachers were showing me how it worked because I was so proud of Will and also amazed at how well he did. They came in and put the board on the floor and he went straight to it and got the pretzel picture and took it to his teacher! Give the boy a PRETZEL!!!

He has been requesting pretzels ALOT!! I break them into little pieces and hand them to him and he eats them...EATS them!! No spitting! Did you hear that?? Angels signing Hallelujah! It is amazing!! I think that we need to add more foods to the board so that he can broaden his food choices.

He also likes to sing If Your Happy and You Know It. Which we sing ALL. DAY. LONG. But he requests it so we sing it!

I am working on taking more pictures for his board so that he can communicate more! I am so proud of Will and I am so excited about our future communication possibilities!

We Did It!!

Will's new favorite show is Dora the Explorer. When the song at the end of the show comes on he will come running to the tv to dance. In the video he is dancing then waving bye-bye to Dora and Boots. When he bends forward he is trying to jump (Dora and Boots jump on the show).

I'm Back!!!

That's right!! I got my computer back!! I can not tell you how excited I am to have my laptop, it has nothing on it, boo :-( but at least it is mine!!

I also got a new camera! I got a point and shoot for blogging and everyday snapshots that I am very excited about! It can also take video so I am excited to put some video on the blog.

So my blogging mojo is coming back folks!! Look out!

In the meantime...I will leave you with Prince William!

Because that is what you really want, right??