So big

Kasey is growing up so fast. Today I pulled out the "Command Center" and put Kasey in it for the first time. She has LOVED it! At least for brief periods of time. And I am so thankful for that. She has been in a big HOLD ME, HOLD ME, HOLD ME mood the last few days. Life has been a little difficult because she doesn't want to do anything but be held, including while she sleeps. This has made for some long nights recently.

She still also hates her rice cereal. Because of this I think I am going to try her on baby oatmeal. I went back and was reading my blog from when Courtney was this age. We had to do the same thing with her. She too hated the rice cereal and preferred the oatmeal.

Its amazing after going back and reading my blog from Courtney's first year, that we survived that first year! My gosh she was some work!

Anyway, yesterday Hubby and I got a special treat. We got to feed the River Otters at the zoo. The River Otters are one of Hubby's favorite animals. So, I arranged with my friend a feeding of them! Hubby got to feed them fish chunks. They came right up to the fence! They are sooo cute! I wish we could pet them, but you aren't allowed to. They have faces that make you want to snuggle them!

We were able to sneak off and do this while Courtney was at daycare. Kasey came with us. It was a beautiful day and we really had fun!

The Kia is gone now! So, we are down to just the 2 new cars, the Ford Flex and Ford Focus and the 2 motorcycles! We have a driveway back! It's great!

We survived Courtney's first party at Chuck E. Cheese. The place sure has changed since I was a kid! They used to have an band of characters that were robotic like. Now they just have the Chuck E. Cheese mouse left and the band has been replaced with screens where they show videos. It took Courtney a while to find something she was interested in, but she finally found a SpongeBob game she liked. Basically all she had to do was drop her token in. If it landed on certain colored squares she would get different amounts of tickets. She did pretty well and landed on the 50 ticket square twice. Overall at the end she had 200 tickets exactly. So she was able to pick out a few prizes. One thing she got was a pink ring that opens up. She just loves that thing and plays with it all the time. Chuck E Cheese came out and visited all the kids. He wanted to visit with Kasey too, she just wanted to sleep!

It has been really great having Susan and Zak back in state. We have seen them a bunch of time already. Of course at the moment, I don't know when we will see them again, but the really great thing is that I can just get in my car and drive to their house!!! It is wonderful!

Other than that, things have been pretty much the same here. Courtney is still doing her therapy. It's work too! Every week we get a take home sheet of things to work on. They aren't hard, but sometimes its hard to incorporate them daily into her life. And at the same time I have to make them fun activities so that she will do them. I have a feeling we are looking at a LONG time in therapy. That's ok by me as long as it helps her!

Well, guess I should go and get some stuff done!