Addicted

I took the plunge yesterday and joined FACEBOOK. I have been obsessed since. I've reconnected with so many old friends from high school, college, etc. I even found a group for the theater camp I went to when I was 16. A few friends have been messaging me constantly and posted some photos of us from when we were 13. SO FUN! I can barely tear myself away from the computer to go the gym for an hour -- but I have been because I'm also a little obsessed with my daily 6 mile runs. I feel out of balance -- but that could be because I donated blood yesterday and went out for an early happy hour this evening.

Anyway, the really good news is that tomorrow AM, we're getting our new wall-to-wall carpet. Tonight I have to lay down the matting that goes under it (from Wal-Mart -- good stuff). I can't wait to get back to our morning routine of walking around the apt. I've been doing some, but this will give me a safer feeling to go wherever I want with Amelia safely.

She's been doing really well this week. Lots of "Give me's" (sign language) for everything. Lots of laughing and reacting to people, TV, letting me know when she's had it, etc. We started therapeutic feedings again. Her new Speech Pathologist, Keisha is working on getting her to strip the spoon and she picked it up really quickly. We've always given her food on the underside of the spoon. What Keisha does is put the food on the spoon normally, puts the spoon in and closes her lips around it by closing her jaw with a finger under her chin. Genius! Makes perfect sense. Amelia's really has responded to it and is picking up on. Tomorrow Keisha and I are going to the Lending Library at UCP to get some Augmentative Communication Devices for her to use. It should be a very cool intro for Amelia.

Gearing up for the Oscars. I know I'll never stay awake for it. Nestor's still in LA. We usually go out and get lots of good eats & drinks and gorge ourselves. Oh well, probably better to not do that this year anyway. Did I mention that I've now lost 25lbs?