Eating Noodles

Last night Mommy was lazy about making dinner, so the kids had one of those 'Cup o' Noodles'. There is broth in it, so they had a spoon to eat their noodles. However, the noodles are rather long and tend to slide off before reaching the mouth.
Cassee fixed that problem. At one point in the meal I looked over and saw this:
her method of fixing the 'noodle-falling-off-the-spoon-problem'.

It was so funny to us, we had to take a picture. Of course this snowballed into Emmalynn and Adam wanting to eat their noodles that way with a picture taken to accompany it.

Not the best of dinner manners, but it did make dinner more fun!

Watching and Waiting

This is a typical scene in the morning and in the afternoon. Adam and Cassidee love to watch for the bus. Also, they are very excited every afternoon for Emmee to get home from school. (If only that love and excitement would last for many more years to come!)

Preschool for Cassidee

Hurray! Hurray!!
Cassee qualified for the school district's preschool program! After Cassee's articulation screening, in which the lady recorded Cassee and her's conversation, she decided she couldn't understand enough of Cassee's words. (I'm glad she couldn't, because no one else can either.)
So, not only will we not have to pay for preschool for Cassee, she also gets speech therapy and they bus her to the preschool, I won't have to take her everyday that she goes! Bonus for mommy!!
We still need to see an ENT to find out what is preventing her eardrums from responding.

Cassee's Ears - Update 1

We went to an audiologist on Wed. She found the same results. After cleaning out Cassee's ears (which took almost an hour for both ears - thanks to Papa for having very small ear canals) the Audiologist did an ear drum test.
Cassee's ear drums didn't respond any better when clean vs. ful of wax. Therefore, we are now going to an ENT (ear, nose and throat doctor) to see what he has to say!
Hopefully this next week we will hear back from the articulation screening too.

Cassee's Ears

We've had a speech screening for Cassee done for preschool this fall. She didn't pass the hearing tests (she's now had two). It could be why she doesn't annunciate her consonant sounds when she talks.
Tomorrow morning she has her articulation screening to see if she qualifies for the district preschool (FREE!) and in the afternoon she sees the audiologist at the hospital. (We were scheduled for the 4th of May, but today they had a cancellation for tomorrow!!)
We'll keep everyone updated on the "Hearing of Cassidee" Saga.

Cassee Outfits

Cassidee truly has her own way of how she wants to be dressed. I can only make her change to normal clothes when we actually leave the house. I won't take her otherwise.
She loves play dress up clothes, but she loves real clothes too, maybe even more. She just doesn't wear them appropriately all the time.

Today she is wearing a slip. She loves this slip and has worn it for the past week. (It came to us the night before Julia's wedding thank to Dorothy and Holly, who had outgrown it, to Emmalynn to wear under her dress. It now fits Cassee very well.) She wears it under her clothes, over her clothes, all by itself (quite often) and has worn it under her pj's the last few nights. She also loves to wear tights. She wore those black tights to church yesterday, all day long and to bed with her slip and nightgown. She hasn't taken them off yet today and it's already almost 4 o'clock pm.
You can't tell but she also has on a black and orange Halloween skirt under her slip. She's wearing a shirt over the top because she was complaining to me earlier that she was cold. Imagine that! I told her to put a shirt on and that's what she picked. How warm huh?
She also loves her white sandals that she got from Grandmama for her birthday last year. She would wear them everywhere if I would let her.
Here she is in her latest and greatest nightgown (from the Ryan's for Christmas, good job Dorothy).
If you look closely you can see the pink lip gloss that she applied all over Adam's head and hair. How nice for her to have someone to let her practice on them! I wonder how long he'll last as her practice dummy!

"Someday my Prince will come..."

This morning Cassee started singing this song. When I tried to sing with her she said, "No, like this." And she sang it again swaying to the song with her arms also dancing to the song. She does love SnowWhite! (Sorry about the darkness. This was in my bedroom and our three light-bulbed fixture has two bulbs burned out! How many Joneses does it take to change a light bulb? Apparently more than the five that live here!!)