Happy New Year!

Things have been very busy over the last few months. We are ringing in the new year in quiet style at home, as I have to work tomorrow. Cassidy is getting over her first cold\ear infection of the season. Meanwhile Makenna has just started round one of antibiotics for her first ear infection, along with a perforated ear drum. That being said she isn't nearly as impossible as she was last winter. The girls both enjoyed a wonderful, present-filled Christmas. Cassidy got a Barbie Dream Townhouse, as tall as she is, a new camera and a baby doll she had been asking for. Makenna got some nice toys too, although on a smaller scale, Magna Doodle and a Toy Story spiral car race set and her very own bumble bee pillow pet. We are trying to make the best of school vacation, but Daddy has been sick for half of it, so things are pretty boring around here.
Cassidy has been doing great in school, garnering 3 awards already in her education career. Makenna has been growing in leaps and bounds and is talking alot and signing so many words. Aside from her own communicating, the things she is able to understand from others is astonishing. She hears words in conversations around her and then acts on them. For instance Cassidy and I were talking and mentioned something that might scare children, and Makenna let out a big growl. Another time I had mentioned I thought Makenna was getting a cold and she let out a shivering sound. She does new things that surprise me everyday!