Happy Holidays...How Was Your Thanksgiving Holiday?

Happy Holidays to all! I hope you had a very nice Thanksgiving holiday and that your Christmas holiday preparations are going well.

It has been FOREVER since I have posted on the blog and I have been procrastinating about doing it. Why? So much time has gone by I am not sure how much "catch up" to do and I feel bad that I haven't been blogging. The busier life is, the harder it is to keep up with blogging. Anyway, I am back again and if anyone is still around to read, thanks!

The last part of November was SO busy! We traveled to Tennessee to visit Jasper's family and Esther Marie got to meet her grandmother for the first time and Jasper's brother's family. It was a good visit and we enjoyed it but it is always SO short to travel on a weekend.

For Thanksgiving, we traveled to Texas to visit two of my brothers, Daniel and William, and their families. Daniel and his family recently moved back to the states from Germany and this was the first time we had seen them since they arrived. The kids always have a great time when we go there and Joshua especially enjoys being around other boys in the family! The kids had the whole week off from school and so it made the trip easier. We also got to see Uncle Stephen and his daugher Jenny.

Esther Marie is doing so well these days and her personality is SO CUTE! She constantly makes us smile and laugh. She is a very sweet-natured girl. She is also talking better and better each week and we are understanding her more. Her therapy sessions are going well and her therapists are impressed with her progress. She still likes to point and grunt when she wants something, but we are asking her to say what she wants before we give things to her and that helps. One of the cutest things she does now is lean toward you, sticking her finger out while she says "be right back." Then she toddles off to get a new toy or book and brings it back to you. The expression on her face and the position of her body when she points would make you crack up. I hope I can capture it on video sometime before she stops doing it! She is also still continuing to work on her potty training and that is going pretty well. I say if a child can tell you when they have a dirty diaper and want it changed, then they are old enough to be using the potty all the time! Hopefully by this summer, we will have this accomplished.

If you check the blog and find this new post, I would REALLY love it if you would let me know you are still around. Just leave a comment and let me know. It is so much more fun to blog when those reading the blog respond back.

I have SO many new pics to post, I am going to have a hard time deciding which ones to put on here, but you should be seeing some soon.

More soon and love to all,

Sarah