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Hi! I'm back! I know I haven't posted in forever. I've been pretty busy with a new baby and with Imma starting school. And my laptop has been very uncooperative. But I had to share how Imma is doing in school.
Imma started her intensive pre-school program a few weeks ago. Since then, I have noticed some major gains. She still has a lot of difficulty with communication but these are some of the things she has improved with:
1) The alphabet. She sings the alphabet song now and gets most of the letters right. She has been playing a lot of alphabet apps on my Iphone, too, which is also helping. I got her an alphabet puzzle for Christmas last year where you have to put the pieces in alphabetical order and it makes a long train across the floor. She can do it almost perfectly by herself but sometimes she insists on skipping P. She also recognizes a ton of letters when she sees them independently, which is better than a lot of my kindergartners could do at the beginning of the year. And she is picking up some letter sounds, too.
2) Counting. She can count to nine now without saying, " E, go, by" which used to be "three, four, five." She seems to have one-to-one correspondence, too, which is pretty advanced.
3) Shapes. She really recognizes circle now and star. She used to completely ignore me when I talked about shapes so that is really cool.
So, she seems to be learning a lot and I am really happy with her academic progress. However, the last three days she has bitten another child at one of her two pre-schools so we have been working on how to be nice to our friends!

Lucy is growing like a weed. She had her two month check-up on Monday and she weighs 11.4 lbs. and is 25 1/2 inches long. Both of these numbers are near the 50%. She got really upset Monday afternoon and screamed for about an hour. I knew something was wrong because my baby only cries when she is hungry or wants picked up. I gave her some Tylenol and she finally settled down but that was not pleasant at all. She still has the coolest hair ever.

I also got to go see my friend Alyson's twin boys today. They are very tiny but sooo cute. I was so happy to finally get to meet Jack and Will. I've been praying for these babies for a long time and it is such a miracle that they are finally here and that they are doing so well though they were 11 weeks early. It is awesome to see Alyson with them, she is such a great mom already. I know my girls will get to be very good friends with the Steiner Boys!

Hopefully I will do a better job of keeping this updated so my girls have a good record of what was going on in their lives, since that is the major purpose of this blog. And, of course, to let friends and family know what is going on. I'm lucky if I get twenty minutes during the day between feedings though because Lucy is a very demanding little girl! Still, I will try to do better!