The Beginning of Snowmegedon.....Blizzard 2011!

You know that old saying about March coming in like a lion and going out like a lamb.....wonder if it can be said for February as well??

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February 1st we were in a Blizzard Warning by noon. The snow started & then the wind started picking up. The forecast was up to two foot of snow in a 24 hour period!!.

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So.....by 4pm on Tuesday, we had sent home most people that could be sent home & I headed home.

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Little Miss Amie - just thought it was another fun day in the snow!!

Tiger was pretty happy about the snow too!

Opened the east door & this is what I found between the doors - now that's not totally unexpected, because we hadn't lifted the glass portion of the door all the way closed at the beginning of winter - so there was about 4-6 inches of screen at the very top of the screen door where the blowing snow could get between the doors!

"Snow Pie" Anyone??

She was only outside about 15 minutes - but that was long enough to satisfy her desire to get out there!!

5:00 - it's really coming down!

At about 8:00 opened the door to the west to let the dogs out - this is a solid glass screen door.....and yet we have snow that has gotten in between the doors on this side also!

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And as we opened the door to let the dogs out....the drift was already up above the bottom of the door!

Wonder what the morning shall bring????

Amie's learning to read!

Amie is learning to read!! She's super excited & so are we!

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The reading starts with identifying letters and sounds - book one is all vowels & she's really close to doing it correct all the time!!

Post - EEG fun!

Wednesday 26th, Christopher got to entertain Amie from 9pm to midnight. They watched movies & ate popcorn. She had to stay up til midnight & then I had to get her up at 4am because they wanted to do an extended sleep deprived EEG.

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She did pretty darn good for being woke up at 4am - we messed around the house & then went out to breakfast. We got to Peoria a little before our 9am appointment.

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She did so incredibly good! She didn't fuss too much & did the techniques they wanted her to do & even fell asleep!! Could not believe how well she did!

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Came home and she laid down about 1pm. At 4:30 I had to wake her up so she wouldn't think it was time to sleep for the entire night!

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She was not real happy about being woke up!

But she did super the next day at school & bounced back to her regular routine pretty quickly!

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Today (Sunday) we are still trying to get some of the goo out of her hair so Tiara suggested peanut butter........we'll see how she looks when we wash the peanut butter out in the bath tonight!

Introduction to 16p11.2!!

I hope this link works - it is a webinar put on by the Simons VIP Group that is researching 16p11.2!! It was extremely informative!

https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/playback/Playback.do?id=7unsdx

Bear Down!!

Chicago Bears - prediction - Seahawks falling from the sky in Chicago!!

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Kinec with Chris

Chris asked Amie if she wanted to play Kinec with him the other night.

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She says, "Yes" - ran into the living room, opened up the desk & got a controller out and headed up the stairs. When Chris told her she didn't need a controller, she left it on the stairs!

She had no idea what she was supposed to do - but it was cute!

Just a day in the life...

On a recent day - chapel day at that - Amie was being silly, see Baby Elmo peeking out of her coat. It was fun, but then it had us running a bit behind schedule.

So living in Galesburg - what do you suppose happened?? Three guesses and the first two don't count!!

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Yup - stopped by a damn train! Again!

Uggggggggghhhhhhh!