Hallelujah!!

We've hit some milestones. Some big ones. Kylie first. She is finally talking. She is signing about 4 words independently (milk, more, bye bye, and shakes head yes and no) and she says about 3 words independently (ticka ticka ticka (tickle), ma!ma!ma!(mine), mamamamama(mom)). She also repeats A LOT of words you say to her. This is big for me because she's about to hit 18 mo in a few weeks. This means she will be going to the doctor for a check up. If I had to tell a doctor that another one of my children wasn't speaking by 18 months I was going to go mad. She's a girl for goodness sakes. I think she'll be fine though. She picks up on things so much faster than the boys did. Her receptive language skills are great. I can tell her to go get something from another room and she will get it. I can ask her for her foot without pointing and she will hold it out. She knows where her head and hand is. She is so smart.

Now Gavin. HE'S POTTY TRAINED!!!! YAY!!! It only took me 3 weeks. The first two weeks were spent trying to convince him this was something he wanted. See, the thing with Gavin is, if he doesn't care, he just won't do it. He just didn't care about sitting in wet or poopy diapers. He didin't care to be a big boy. He didn't care about going in the potty. So we had to make it an expectation instead of a choice. After about two weeks, he suddenly decided it was cool to be a big boy. And he wanted to wear his Thomas underwear. Now we have another problem. Now that going potty is so cool, so it seems is playing in the potty water. Now when he goes potty he sits down in the water and soaks himself. Hee Hee Hee, fun fun. Nice. He is such a boy.

Now Landan. He's doing really well at school. He's had a little more trouble during Oct. but nothing too bad. His teacher is still doing the interventions she started at the beginning of the year and it seems to be helping. He's right where he should be in math and he's at the top of the class in reading. He's always been at the top of the class in reading. He loves to read. She says he's a very smart little boy.

Landan's football team finally won their first game last Sat. It was the last game of the season. It was so exciting. Although Landan had a rough time. He was playing center and the nose tackle ran him over on one of the plays and then after the play was over he came over and stepped on Landan's arm with his cleat. Of course the refs didn't see it so it wasn't called or anything. Then later in the game the same kid tackled him again and he hit his head really hard on the ground and got the wind knocked out of him. He got up but was feeling dizzy so he started crying and the kid laughed at him. How rude!! That wasn't called either because the ref didn't see it. It just so happened that it was the other teams coaches son who was being so mean. Landan told our coach what happened so our coach told the new center to knock him on his butt. Well the other teams coach heard what he said and complained to the ref. So there was this big commotion. Luckily no penalties were called on our team. I always try to stay out of the way and not be a nosy parent but I was about ready to give that other teams coach a piece of my mind when I saw him in the parking lot after the game. So now we just have a bowl game to end the season. I love football.