Summer

This summer started off slow, but then went really quickly.  I know I haven't posted for a while, so there's a lot to post.  I'm going to start backwards.  The boys were supposed to start school last Wednesday, but all 3 kids were throwing up Tuesday night.  Andrew was feeling better by Thursday and went to school and Jakob finally went on Friday.  They are both very happy with their teachers.  I think they're going to have a great year.  They also missed their first fall baseball game Tuesday evening.

LiLi still continues to do well.  She did great with her eye patch.  We went to the opthamologist a couple weeks ago and the Dr. thinks her eyes look much better.  We're not going to use the patch the next few months.  We have an appointment in December and if her eyes are still doing well, she won't need the surgery!

She is finally potty trained!!  I tried in June and it went terrible, so I gave up after a few days.  I tried again a few weeks ago and she did much better.  It was still a little rough the first few days, but now she's caught on and is doing great!  The only problem she had was Friday night when she was still recovering from her illness she has some loose stools and couldn't make it to the bathroom.  Fortunately that was when my mom was watching her :)

She had a great summer.  She met all her cousins and aunts/uncles from my side of the family.  First her cousin Mitchell (Moose as she calls him) came to KC.  He's 17 years old and is wanting to go to med school, so he shadowed a doctor here in OP.  Then in July more of his family came to visit for a few weeks.  LiLi met her cousins Grant and Brett for the first time.  Her aunt Cindi and cousin Annaliese also came.  She had met them back in October, but I doubt she remembered.  She had a great time playing and baking cookies with Annaliese.  Her uncle Todd comes periodically to KC for work, so she's seen him a few times.

Then towards the end of July we went to New Hampshire to visit my sister and family.  She had a great time there also.  Her favorite part was jumping on the trampoline.  She would jump for hours.  She just loved it. She also enjoyed playing with Trinity. The boys love it there also.  The boys have so much fun playing with their cousin Joseph, but all the boys fight together like brothers.  They live way out in the country and they have lots of woods to walk around and explore.  They also have a golf cart now that Jakob liked to drive.  Andrew drove a little, but had a hard time controlling it.  He ran into a few trees.  I'm pretty sure he won't get his driver's license until he's at least 30.

We also went to the beach while we were there, but the water was a little cold.  Jakob didn't mind it too much, but the other 2 boys only stayed in for a little while.  They all enjoyed finding crabs in the rocks.  The water didn't bother LiLi too much either, but I didn't want her to stay in it for too long.  We got some ice cream on the way home.  They all had a lot of fun.

One year ago tomorrow is the day we met LiLi.  She has just changed so much.  I'll try to update later in the week and tell you about our 1 year 'forever family day'.

Trisha