HEADING into the HOLIDAYS

 FINALLY, I have someone to help me with all our Christmas Trees! Yes, Trees. Currently we are up to 8 and 1/2.

Grace is really into decorating Christmas trees. When I got her own tree out of storage, she came running and headed right for the decorations. I let her put them all on, with just a few redirection..She really seems to get involved with them. She helped me put Chris' up in his office too. She tried to bring a big box of ornaments for it without me telling her to. She is really listening to commands and understanding most of what we want her to do, Most times she listens better than her sister.

The other day Gracie was imitating her therapist, Nina, and I came in and said Hi to her and she imitated Me and said HI and waved at the same time. I have a witness! Nina confirmed it!

SHE REALLY IS ONE OF A KIND!

A week without power and water.

this is how Last week ended and...

then this was how this weekend ended. I guess there are alot of clean, empty fridges out there.

I am starting to not like Halloween.
Last year there was snow and no power for 3 days. This year there was wind and rain and no power for 5 days.

In all honesty, we weren't as bad off as other people even though we didn't have power from monday nite to this past Saturday. We had a warm place to stay at least. The picture below was the view outside Gracie's room. A tree fell and was caught by two other trees. It could have been much worse.

 Most of the week was spent in our bedroom as we had a propane fireplace. Grace was so good through out the entire week. She took all the change like a champ! No tantrums. When she did get cranky we brought out the ipad and she played till it was time to go to bed. She did a whole lot better than the rest of us, especially Tasha!