Happy Birthday my Annika.
A wonderful year that will be great,
Upon waking up this morning, you have officially turned eight.
To wake you we used Birthday presents as bait,
So you woke up early to open them and were not late.
A another year of fun, love, friendship and laughter is your fate.
Dont grow up too soon, adulthood can wait.

As many of you know, Trevor goes to preschool in order to improve his speech. He was given 3 goals to master and as of today he has just about mastered one of them.
The second goal is Will pronounce all final consonants where they are omitted for improved speech intelligibility.
We got this note today from his Speech Therapist:
"Improvement seen - Trevor almost never deletes final consonants - :) Goal near Mastery"

Yay!!!!

Annika's arm is healing nicely. It didnt move out of place too much and does not need to be reset. She has 2 more appointments and her arm will straighten out more as she grows (it is by no means crooked).

Ah, the annual Annika birthday party has come and gone. This year's theme was Nightmare Before Christmas Birthday Sleepover - costumes were required. We had in attendance 2 witches (actually, one was a glamour witch, but I dont know really what that is, except the costume was sparkly and tight), a diva, Sharpay (High School Musical) and one regular person. The regular person was given a pirate costume by Annika who said costumes were required.

They played Mummy wrap and Musical Chairs. Annika won, but was gracious enough to give the prize to the 2nd place person because after all, she got a bunch of gifts already and didn't need the prize. Once the costumes were off and the family room was sleeping bag city, they decided to do a fashion show. It was interesting/hysterical listening to Annika discuss how the models posed and if they were really believable or if they used good facial expressions. I think she is watching too much Project Runway. Anyway once 1:30 am rolled around they were all finally asleep for the most part. Unfortunately, they woke up at 6 and I didn't have my coffee fast enough to form coherent sentences. The girls all had a great time and even let Trevor participate in most everything.