MWNews 42

Once again, it has been awhile and this post will not be very long. I just wanted to report on William. He has gotten his first tooth. He grizzles all the time, so we knew something was wrong and now we know. He has a little tooth on his bottom gum. It is not quite sticking out yet, but you can see it is there.

He is in the dining room right now having breakfast. I have to go to work soon, although I have already been working for a couple of hours but we have to take Maeghan in to the doctor today. She is going to in to be measured for knew splints. The old ones are getting a little too small. She has not been wearing them for the last couple of weeks and she is doing fine as far as we can tell. She can even walk around in her slippers, which she couldn't before because she they did not support her ankles enough and she kept rolling her feet over. Hopefully, she will not have to wear her splints for much longer. She really likes not wearing them and I think she can walk and run a little better without them. But, she still has a problem with balance and falling down a lot. The splints help support her legs and make them stronger.

I still have a lot of things to tell you about what Maeghan and William have been up to, but I have to go. We are settled into our new home and we like it so far. It is starting to get cold and we do not have enough heaters, so we will see what it gets like. I am going to buy a couple of room heaters to see if that helps but if it gets really cold, we might have to all wear jackets all the time.

We are thinking of taking a driving trip in July or August. We are going to go up north, where the weather is warmer. It is too hot in summer, but it should be ok during the winter. We don't know how far we will go or even when exactly, but I have eight weeks of vacation to use before next year and we plan on taking a couple of weeks and taking a trip. We will go through Brisbane at some point and we might stop and kidnap a couple of the grandkids, probably just Anna, but she is in school now and I don't know if she will be allowed to miss very much. We might go all the way to Caines but that is about a three day drive from here and could prove to be a little too far. We will probably end up around the southern end of the great barrier reef, not that we will go out in the water and see it, but at least we can say we saw part of it from above the water.

We have to go now. Maeghan will not wake up, she was up until midnight last night, so I have to carry her to the car. She is still the cutest thing around and William just adores her. He watches her all the time and laughs everytime she comes in the room. That is one sure way to make him happy, set him next to Maeghan. She just laughs and watches her and stays happy that way.

Maeghan loves the back yard and wants to play all the time. She has her jumping castle in the garage and even has friends that come over now and play with her. She calls everyone her best friend and everytime we pass the school around the corner, she says that is her new school and all her friends are there. She says when she goes to school, all her friends are going to chase her and they run really fast so she has to run really fast. She says she will chase them too, but she gets to go first.

I really have to go now. This picture is from Maeghan's favorite beach. She says all beaches are her favorite beach, until she actually gets there and then she says this isn't her favorite beach and when are we going to her favorite beach. She loves the beach, by the way, and it is too cold to go now. We had a hard time convincing her of this and she still wants to go all the time. She points out that it is warm outside and maybe we can go to the beach but we haven't been lately.

We still have to take her to the club so she can go dancing each week. She loves dancing. She has a new play group she goes to but she had to quit her ballet classes. They wanted to move her in with a lot of bigger kids and she was still recovering from her broken collar bone, so we didn't take her back. She dances at church and playgroup, so maybe that is enough for her.

Ok, I am going now.

Talk to you later.