Weekends are fun

Cata got new glasses!

Big T is still a smiler :)

August 2009

Tomas is 7 months old now. Amazing how time flies. He is cute as a button. Still a pretty mellow boy. He coos all day long and is full of smiles. He likes to give kisses and loves to play with hair. He still rolls to his destinations but is now starting to rock back on his knees - oh no! :) He adores his sister and loves giving her kisses. Another love of his is food. There's a short clip of him eating one of his first little snacks. He is a good sleeper but much like our little Cata, is an early bird - up by 5:30. He plays peek-a-boo and gets desperate if you leave his sight. Overall, he's been an amazing little munchkin.

Cata as been doing great too! She tried a technology that is available that reads eyegaze and has a voice component. It's hard to explain but it's this amazing little $17,000 device that would actually let her communicate with us. It is a computer with a built in video that reads her eyegaze. Where ever she stares for a set period of time, that is equivalent to our double click of the mouse. As she gets more advanced, the device grows with her. So now we put choices that she would be able to navigate with limited number of pages that she can "flip" through. Then, we increase the vocabulary that is available to her as she grows. She can also play games on this and do educational programs. The hard part is convincing insurers that they want to pay for this. Here she is using it. Each time you hear the computer play some clip, it's because she chose that clip from 4 options and activated it with her eyes.

Summer 09

Summer has flown by. So are you ready for a picture overload? Here it comes! Our summer started off with a trip back home where we were able to attend the Rett Conference. It was a great conference and will have to be a post of its own (maybe I'll get to posting one of these days?). We had a great weekend with both of our families and lots of friends. The month of June was just crazy with my schedule but we managed to have lots of outdoors time. June also brought us a life changer - a new nanny who has made our lives so much easier. It took going through a few before we finally were happy. What a dream! Kevin and I celebrated our 7th anniversary in June and then Kevin's birthday in July. We managed to get away to a friend's cabin for a weekend. We said goodbye to Cata's school aide and welcomed a new one. We have found a new occupational therapist and a new speech therapist for Catalina and they both seem great. All in all, it's been a fun summer. Now here come the pictures:

Big T with Grandpa C. and Grandma C.

What a flirt!

Funny story - my parents have this statue of Alice in Wonderland (or at least that's what we have always called it). Well, Cata just LOVED Alice! She would walk up to the statue and just stare and smile.

My mom bought this little table for Cata and Sophia. They were really cute there. The cutest part was my dad sitting there reading with Catalina. I think they sat there for 1 hour reading together. Cata was just in heaven. She loves her Tata!

A gift from Grandma C.

Running behind Sophia in the yard

Tata with the grandkids

My man of a million expressions (and he happens to love glass bottles).

Remember that awesome nanny I mentioned? Well, she set up our little water playpark for Cata. Not only that, but she takes pictures of the kids having fun for us!

Goofy T. likes his foot still.

What are you looking at? Look at me smile!

Oh, this looks like something yummy...

The princess...

Out for a walk

This was our summer break to a cabin. I swear it was midJuly!

Ok, that's all for now. Hope you enjoyed the photos!