Life After The Miracle Worker

Well, the show ended on January 23rd. What a relief! We can get back to a normal life, wait, we still don't know what is normal. Since Lindey arrived there is no normalcy to our lives and schedules. That's okay, it will only last for a short time in the grand scheme of things.

Anyway, the last show was great! Reagan's classmates were there. Reagan threw some new twists and turns into the finally show for Julie, such as eating the breakfast rolls, really dropping the chair on her foot (I saw poor Julie wince in pain), and spitting on Julie's hand. Ah, poor Julie taking the brunt of Reagan's improving. Reagan didn't have time after the show to say good bye to everyone and have it set it that the show was over because ACC called and Alex was sick. So we had to hurry and pick him up, he had a fever of 103.2 by the time we arrived home. She was very disappointed because she didn't get to have her special lunch to celebrate with us. It may be have been a blessing that she didn't get to sit around and say good bye, as I am sure some tears would have been shed. If you want to see all the hundreds of pictures I took go to http://picasaweb.google.com/Belhorn5/TheMiracleWorker#.

So, the day after the Miracle Worker, Reagan broke her arm! Can you believe this? Two broken arms in 3 months. Reagan was upstairs in her room, in her closet looking for something and she turned to walk out, tripped on something, fell down and broke her arm. We thought she was faking it or using it to get attention because she was complain that Alex had all the attention, since he was sick. However, when I realized it hurt her to do the basic movements that the doctor did with Alex, we decided it was time to take her to the ER. Sure enough she had a broken arm. It's called a buckle fracture, which means the bone isn't actually broken, it is more bent. They put her in a splint for the time being, but she received a full arm cast on the 28th though.



After TMW, the kids had two snow days and got to stay home. So, life was still not normal for Lindey and I. Today feels like the first day it was normal, just in time for the weekend to creep up again! Lindey does not nap well when the other two kids are home. Today, however, she has been asleep since 11:30 am, waking up to eat and then going back to sleep. She's still asleep at 3:30 pm! It's a miracle!! She gave me some time to finally work from home.



My boss has been so flexible! She is letting me work most of my hours from home. The deal for me to go back to work was to reduce my hours to 10 a week with 4 hours once a week in the office and the rest from home and minimal travel. She said that was fine. I was a little disappointed, if she said no I would have just quit, but dog on it, she meet my demands! :) Greg is staying home with Lindey for half a day on Monday's when I go to the office. I still am not sure how it is working out to work from home. I am trying. It is so difficult though because I see everything that needs to be done while I am sitting and working. I hope to find a good balance soon.

So, I have mentioned everyone except Alex. I think the poor guy is out of sorts. His sisters have all kinds of attention and he has been going with the flow. He is starting to act up, hitting and talking back more than normal. I think it may be his attempt to get some attention. We may need to come up with some Alex time quickly so he doesn't' stay on his downward spiral. He's such a good kid though.



Happy Chinese New Year! (Reagan studied China this week in school, so I know it's the New Year!)

A Star is Born

Last night, January 9, 2009, was opening night for The Miracle Worker in which Reagan plays Helen Keller. She has worked so hard since rehearsals started on December 8, 2008. She has never complained once about having to go to rehearsal or missing gymnastics or having to do homework at school! She has been fabulous! It's very interesting to watch a child who has not been exposed to theater or anything of the likes before...she doesn't bitch and complain or talk back like the adult actors (sometimes) do. :)

Anyway, opening night was a success! The cast had a final dress rehearsal in the morning with an audience, which went very well too. Reagan said she was nervous, but didn't appear nervous to me at all! She had so many friends in the audience to support her. Greg was more nervous for her then she was, I was just excited for her! After all her hard work, she finally got to have fun!

Her biggest challenge was learning how to act blind. It is awfully hard to keep a deaf child from looking at the other actors for her cues. Most of her cues were physical, but she had some lines to cue from. We tried to have her wear a blindfold, or a bedtime mask, for rehearsal, but she peeked out the bottom and followed the staging lines on the floor! Ha!

Well, she has a grueling perforamance schedule for the next two weeks. She will be out of school for two weeks because of all the morning performances. She likes that idea, me not so much, becuase I will be making up the homework with her. The show runs from January 9th to the 23rd, with a total of 15 performances!

I am so proud of Reagan!

Lindey Rolls Over

Wow! As if having a star in the family wasn't enough to keep us busy this weekend, Lindey rolled over for the first time today! The other day she was laying on her back trying to get onto her tummy. I helped her roll on over and she was so proud of herself, smiling and talking to herself. Well, today she did it all on her own! It is no longer safe to leave her on anything alone, including her two favorite napping places-my bed and the chair in the living room. She likes to be all curled up and in a corner hen she naps. Funny enough, she even likes to nap with my hand over her face. Maybe cause she can smell me, maybe because it's dark, maybe because it's warm, maybe she just likes to feel squashed like she's still in the womb! Who knows! Any way, my next goal is to get her comfortable sleeping in her crib, especially for nap time. She is not a very good napper right now, so it makes it hard. It is easy to let her sleep any where that she can/will, which is mostly with mom or close by mom. I so enjoy co-sleeping with her, but sometimes I need a free moment to wash clothes or the dishes or just be with Reagan and Alex. Lindey has been such a blessing in our lives! It's nice to have a child (again) who won't talk back to you or run away from you!

Happy New Year

I have vowed to find a new and efficent way to keep friends and family in touch with our family and decided a blog is the way to do it. This is new and different to me, as I have never blogged before, so I hope it works out okay.