Alex's B-Day!

We had a fun time having a party for Alex and the extended family. We had a dinner with my brothers and Issac's brother and mom and step dad. It was fun. After dinner Alex opened his gifts and then we did cake and Ice Cream. He got lots of clothes, book, and a fire truck and he loves the fire truck. We love Alex and are Glad that he got to come to our house. He is having fun at school and is learning lots and has started making sounds at school so I think that he might be over coming his shyness. I really hope so, so they will know just how smart he is. We are STILL waiting to hear back from the Dr. to see if he has the cornella de langue syndrom. We are moving on to the next phase of having x rays taken of his hands. They are also going to test the whole family to see who has it and who doesn't. It will be nice to find out. He is getting smarter and smarter every day. He can say the all of the letters and count to 20. He can also name all the colors and shapes (even the weird hard one's). We are so proud of him and hope that he will continue to progress in life so he will be on track with his fellow class mates. I also hope that we can find out sooner than later if he has the syndrom so I can tell his teachers so they will know how to teach him in school. He is very loving to his baby sister and a BIG tease to other sister. At least she can body slam him if need be so when they are older I think that he will not be able to beat up on her.

Moab

Issac and I decide that we were going to go to Moab for our five year anniversary. We went to two parks Arches and Canyonlands. It was so beautiful how the rocks could form like that. With all the different colors. We had to go to both parks in one day because there was not enough time to see them in two days. The town of Moab is really old and cute. We stayed at the Moab Vally Inn and you could tell that it has not been updated for years, but that is the kind of town that it is. We bought some gifts for the kids. It was so nice of Issac's mom to babysit for us. It is so nice to be able to get away from your kids and enjoy some time with each other. With me working part time it was nice fore us to get some alone time. I hope you enjoy these picture. In the third photo you can see a road this is where the farmers use to take the cattle on and then they started mining in the 40's. Then in 1960 they decide to make the state parks.

Becca's 1 year birthday!

We had a fun time watching her eat the Ice ceam cake that I made for her. I forgot to take a picture of the big cake. I made butter cram cake and then I put butter pecan Ice cream on top of the cake. If you would like to know how to make and Ice cream cake just ask me and I will tell you. She had fun letting me help her open her gifts. She would get really happy to just open the cards. Thanks to of those of you gave her a gift she loves them all. We are so glad that she came to us. She is a very happy baby and does not get mad or cry about much. She can be sick or getting teeth and you would not really know it. She is learing how to do the army crawl. We took her in yesterday for her 1 year check up and found out that she is 3 months behind on her grose motor skills and her fine motor skills. She is in the 75% for her height and weighs in at 20 LBS. I have a big girl! The dr thinks that she and Alex have the cornella de langue syndrom so he wants us to talk to Alex's gentic dr. I guess that we will see. If she starts walking by her next check up then I will not worrie about her. The dr. had a medical student with him and he had him get a medical book and they talked about the two kids and what featurs that they have that would lead them to belive that they both have it. There was more things that they said about Alex then Becca. I guess that I will email Alex's dr and see if he has more news for me. Mabye we will be doing early intervention with Becca too. Only time will tell.