Hi there! I can't remember the last time I posted. I'm actually at my mom's house right now, but since they're all watching a Cavs game, I thought I'd use this opportunity to let you know what we've been up to.
Alyssa has had four birthday parties, the most recent one tonight with my dad, and we're still celebrating one more time with my mom tomorrow night. I baked three cakes! I'll be sure to post some pictures later.
We had some major issues with our bipolar/schizophrenic neighbor when she went off her meds again. I know I haven't posted much about her, but this time she got her hands on a loaded gun, so it was a pretty stressful situation. Luckily (well for us anyway), she is now in a psychiatric ward, and hopefully her grown children will not allow her to move back into her house alone.
We had such a nice first Easter with Matthew. I'll post some pictures of that too, soon. Our community Easter egg hunt was the week before, when the weather was still gorgeous. I can't believe we had 60 degree weather around Christmas and it's sleeting tonight in Huron.
We researched and visited some preschool programs for Alyssa to attend next year. I'm really happy with the choice we made. She'll be in a three day program for 2 1/2 hours/day.
Matthew has seven teeth, going on eight any day now. He balks at all baby food now, and he "army crawls" all over the place. He's still not the best sleeper, but he's definitely doing much better than he was a few months ago.
As I said before, we're out-of-town right now. We're bringing my grandma back home, and she's going to spend five days with us. I hope the weather gets nice again, so we can take her to the zoo, park, etc.
I think that about covers the "big" things. It's hard to believe April is half over! I've already started planning Matthew's first birthday party, because it's going to be here before I know it!
I hope you are all doing well. I'm sorry I just can't keep up on the thread. Please keep me in the loop via PMs if you think about it. In the meantime, here's lots of
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for you all.
Take care!
Amy (and Kevin, Alyssa, and Matthew too)
I bought DH a new Delsey carry-on for the Feb trip and he really likes it. This one is the same size as a couple of our Samsonites, so we will use it in August instead of the duffle I usually use for my shoes. The duffle has one of those telescoping handles and the framework for the handle takes up a lot of the interior room in the bag, so I should be able to fit a lot more in the new suitcase. Not sure how much more I really NEED to fit in there, but you just never know.
What cute pics!! DS has that duck, too! Or he used to.
Much better than the 60 pages and then 45 pages for the last two assignments I completed. 
to all of you.
