Fall Fun

We have been busy as usual.  We find so many fun things to do where we live and frankly have a hard time picking which we want to do vs. which we don't have time to do.  Two weeks ago we took a 45 minute drive west towards the gorgeous mountains to go to Great Country Farms.  It is a fun, child friendly place with kid activities, fishing, and an apple orchard.  The girls had a blast on the large bounce area.  Anna had a hard time even standing up:

There were lots of animals to see and feed.  The girls both loved feeding the goats.

We then went to the orchard and picked apples.  Emma LOVED picking the apples.  Anna LOVED eating the apples.

Emma picks apples

Anna eats apple

Emma picks more apples

Anna keeps eating

 

Emma picks

Anna eats

Jay took the girls fishing.  Anna had no interest.  She just kept eating her apples:)  Emma loved it and she even caught her very first fish.  It was a whopper too!

 

Anna has officially been weaned from all of her medicine!!!  She has been off the meds for over a week and knock on wood she is doing AWESOME!  Here is a picture of her taking her last dose.

 Here is a picture from the time when she began taking the medicine at 7 months old.  Time has really flown but look at how much bigger and older she is.  She has changed so much!  Look how much hair she has!!

 

We went to Boston this past weekend for three days in order for Anna to undergo her two year testing.  They did developmental testing on two different days and she rocked her tests!  She scored average on receptive speech (words she understands), expressive vocabulary (words she says), fine motor coordination, and visual reception.  She has over 20 brain tumors and is scoring AVERAGE amongst her healthy peers on her testing!!!  We are so very excited and ecstatic to receive such great news.  (Who knew that you could be so happy to have your child be simply "average"??)  She is also completely off the autism spectrum now.  The testers were very impressed with how far her speech has come in the last 6 months.  She is talking so much more now and so very interested in speech in general - babbling a ton and trying to repeat everything you say compared to 6 months ago.  We are so very blessed with this news.

Reading a little Fancy Nancy on the airplane

 We did a few fun sight seeing things while we were in Boston as well.  Jay and I love, love, love the town.  There is so much to see and do and the restaurants are awesome.  We took the girls to the park that the popular childrens book "Make Way for Ducklings" is based off.  We even found the duck statues and the girls thought it was so fun to ride them like a horse.  They are so silly.

Trying to both fit on momma duck.  It wasn't working out so well.

We went on a fun duck boat tour on land/water.  Emma even got to drive!

Girls love the subway train.  Anna says "choo choo" over and over.

 

A couple silly videos of the girls killing time at the airport. 

 

 

Girls dancing at Faneuil Hall.  I know I post a million videos of them dancing but I just think they are so darn cute busting out their moves.

 

Anna's finger is finally getting better.  She has shed a ton of skin and lost her fingernail.  The finger looks great now and we just have to wait for the nail to grow back.  Thank goodness!  The hand surgeon also told us how lucky we were that she didn't have to have part of her finger amputated.  Anna also recently went to her 2year well check.  She weighs 32lb 2oz which is in the 95th percentile and is 35 inches tall which is the 75th percentile.  Hope everyone has a good week:)