Victoria's Birthday

Tori turned 2 this year. It went by so fast and yet so slow at the same time. Tory is a beautiful little girl and has us all under her spell, well maybe not Gabe. She pretty much controls the house, but we are slowly gaining some of it back. She has been a difficult child and has given me and Jeff more nightmares then we care to go into. The doctors have never been able to give me an answer regarding her breatholding. But as promised and as we always believed she is gradually growing out of them. She rarely has seizures after the breatholding now, but she still will hold her breath and pass out around 4 times a month. We took her to The Children's Center for group therapy to mostly help me figure her out and how I can intervene with her and help her handle the situations. I dont think it helped Tory out much but the information from all those sessions was great to learn and beneficial for all my children.

Tori is a beautiful girl, she is almost extremly bright, she has things figured out years before the other two. She knows her mind and what she wants and is determined to get it. As long as we get that pointed in the right direction we are good. She loves to be outside and especially on the trampoline. She jumps on that for hours on end. She loves playing with Kelsi and Gabe when he will ( those two have a love - hate relationship, but they are gradually learning to love being with each other more and more ) However when Kelsi and Gabe got to go to Grandma Luthy's for a week Tory asked where they were and we told and she yelled out YES! I guess she was excited to have us all to herself! Tory wants to be big so fast, she wants to ride bikes with the kids, run as fast as them, go anywhere and everywhere they go. She looks up to Kelsi and Gabe with pure admiration. She gets very frustrated with everything if she cant keep up with them or if they dont want her to play with them.

We love Tori so much and are so glad that everything is working out with her. Here are some pictures of her 2 year old pictures and a video of her singing Popcorn Poping with Jeff

Gabriel's Birthday

Gabriel turned five this year and it was such a good birthday for him. He had his first big birthday party with a bunch of his friends. Gabe of course wanted a batman birthday party, so I made little batman capes for all his friends. Of course it decided to rain on us and so I had to change all of my outdoor activites to indoor, but it turned out really well.

We love Gabe so much, he is such a good kid, he has an infectious laugh and is a smart kid. He is in a tough position being the middle child and the only boy at that, but he is finding his place and starting to stand up for what he wants to do. He loves playing X Box, he could do that all day if I let him, his favorite games right now are Sonic the Hedgehodge Super racers, and any of the Lego Games, mostly Batman. He is a very affection and emotional boy. He is also the most held back of our three kids but almost always the one that gets hurt. He has mastered his bicycle this spring and when he isn't wanting to play X Box he wants to be riding his bike. Its a good thing we live in a cul de sac because Gabe's idea of checking for cars is yelling as loud as he can there's no cars and hoping it is true. One of my favorite Gabe saying lately is when I was asking him to put away his clothes he turned to me and said, "who put you in charge?", I replied I did, I'm the mom and I am the boss, so he said, " well I dont like you in charge, all you make me do is work, work, work."

Gabe starts school in one week, he is so excited for kindergarten, his teacher will be Mrs Jacobs and Gabe will have a lot of friends from our ward in class with him. Grandma Luthy bought him a Transformer Bumbelbee back pack for school and he has worn that everywhere we go. I think this will be great for Gabe, he will love being able to find his place and find out that he is really good at things.

We love Gabe, he is such a special boy. Here is a couple pictures from his birthday and his 5 year old birthday picture.