11 months

This cool baby is 11 months old tomorrow. She is growing up so fast and doing lots of things that big girls do. We sure do love our princess Chloe, and couldn't imagine our family without her. She is the cutest girl we know! We love you baby girl.

Here is what Chloe has been up to this last month:

- She says yes all the time. I will tel her no and she says yes. Sometimes while shaking her finger at me.

-She got her first ear infections this last week. Poor baby girl has been doing so much better since she got medicine. 

-She loves her brother with all her heart. She loves to take his stuffed beaver and thinks its funny when he snatches it back. She sure thinks she got him :)

-She can sign all done and more. She would rather use all done for most things though. 

-Loves taking baths especially when Ian joins. The will splash together. She thinks he is hilarious when he blows bubbles in the water.

-She sleeps through the night, and usually take a three hour nap everyday

- She weighs 18 lbs and 5 oz, and is 29 inches tall

-She loves cheese, yogurt, fruit, toast, pancakes, hot dogs and pretty much eats anything we will give her to eat. 

-The other day she went into her room after nap grabbed her coat, shoes, and hat and brought them to me. I guess she thought we were going somewhere.

-She thinks that mom should not feed her yogurt to her in the morning. She is way to big for that.

-She gives us a cheezer face when we tell her to say cheese for pictures

-She can almost say uh oh. She just say uh uh uh over and over

- She likes to stand on things and raise her arms up for so big

-She is a good little imitator

Eye Doctor

Ian had a eye appointment today. During therapy his therapist had noticed that he prefers small pictures to look at rather then looking at big one. They have large pictures that they show to him that have small pictures on the back. He will turn the picture over and look at the small picture every time. They had a little girl the early learning services once that did that who ended up with glasses because of it. Ian's appointment went well, and he doesn't need glasses. He is far sighted but not so bad that he needs glasses just yet. The doctor said at his age it was normal to be far sighted at the level he was. They put drops in his eyes that made them dilate for some of the tests. He would of looked super cute in glasses, but it would of been such a huge job to try to get him to wear them.

Landing A Job

Early this month Matthew had a week of vacation. We took advantage of it to visit the job offers Matthew had. We headed to Malta, MT first. We spent two days there, and stayed with the vet and his family. They are seriously amazing people. We sure do love them and are thankful for all they have done for us. While we were there the first night Chloe got sick, and was throwing up. The rest of the day she slept lots, and felt great the next day. We were also able to meet with a program that works with children with delays or disabilities in the county. After speaking with them we met at the elementary to meet the preschool teacher, principal and speech teacher. Everyone was so nice, and willing to work with Ian.
Next we headed to Billings, MT to stay the night with Matthew's brother Michael for the night. They are in Billings while Michael goes to PA school. It was so fun to catch up with them. That night Ian was up throwing up. Poor boy couldn't understand why the heck we had to hold a bowl in front of him to throw up in. He was such a trooper the whole night. Thanks Michael and Emily for letting us stay the night with you. It was a blast.
We got up early the next morning and headed to Buffalo, WY. While we were there we met with the Children Resource Center and the team there. Then we stopped by the vet clinic to say hi to Dr. Walters, then headed to out to a lady who works with children with Autism. Dr. Walters put us up in the Hampton that night, which was so nice. Matthew dropped the kids and I off at the hotel for a while, while he went with Dr. Walters for awhile. When he got back we headed to their house for dinner. That night I was a little worried about having both kids in the hotel and getting them to sleep. When we got back from dinner I put Chloe to sleep, then took Ian swimming for awhile. This wore him out, and he slept like a rock. the next morning Matthew went to the vet about the job offer, and went to the clinic to work with the other vet there. After that we headed over the mountain to my parents house.
We stay the night at my parents house for the night. Matthew headed to Powell that afternoon to talk with the vet there. My little brother watched the kids for us while we all went out to dinner for Valentines day. My grandma was even there for the event. The next morning we woke up, ate breakfast and headed to Matthew's parents. Everyone was there to hang out with us. That night all Matthew's grandparents, aunt Sherie and uncle Dave and all his brothers came for dinner. It was great to see everyone in such a quick trip.
I am so glad that we were able to go and visit each job, and all the resources for Ian in each town. We have finally decided that we are going to POWELL, WY for a job. We are super excited to be able to move back home. We even found out that we can get the Applied Behavior Analysis therapy there for Ian as well. It feel so good finally know, and we feel great about out decision. Can't wait to start out new chapter.

She cracks me up

Chloe has the cutest, sassy and fun personality. She loves to laugh, and is usually such a happy baby girl. I love it when she does her fake laugh while holding her hand over her mouth. Here are a few funny moments with this spunky girl.

Bath Time

These two love taking baths.Their new thing they like to do is kick their legs and splash. Chloe use to just cry when Ian would do it. Now she plays along with him. She laughs while he does it. Then she goes ahead and does it. Sure makes for a wet mess to clean up. They love it though.

I love these three!

I am the luckiest wife and mom ever! I sure do love these 3 with all my heart. 

Snow!

Last week we got a little bit snow. We really hadn't had much snow this year, so it was fun to go out and play in it. Ian wasn't so sure about it at first. He stayed on the sidewalk while I made a snowman. He slowly tipped his toe in the snow and loved it after that. We didn't have a sled, but we had a tarp to sled on. It worked great and Ian loved it. Once the tarp would stop he would keep scooting on his bum down the hill.