Another Blessing!

Well, can you guess what we are having? Here he/she is at 19wks and doing very well. Emilee was overwhelmed to be able to see all this on the monitor. Plus we received a DVD of the whole thing to keep in our records. I'm now on my 24th wk and so looking forward to the 3rd trimester that I will be starting on next friday. I can't believe how fast this pregnancy is going now. I've been feeling really good lately. So good that sometimes I forget that I'm pregnant. My sister Cinda is really insisting that we are having a girl, but I feel totally different with this pregnancy so it makes me feel like we are having a boy. Only 15 more wks till we have our beautiful baby in our arms. That sounds really close if you ask me. I'm just greatful to be doing so well now. So I thank each of you for your prayers during this time. God is just so incredibly awesome.

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Emilee's First Day of School

Hello to All,
I've been trying to get back to this blog posting, but have been very busy. I can only imagine how hard it's going to be with 3 precious little ones. For those of you that don't know already, Emilee has started pre-school at a Christian school just up the street from us. She was able to start late January because there was room for her to start. On her first day of school, Emilee was beyond excited! She kept telling me "mommy it will be ok because I'm going to learn a lot at school, so don't cry k". I did pretty good leaving her for the first time, but only because she was so comfortable with staying there and learning. I was very proud of her to say the least. She has matured so much since she started going to this school. Her teacher, Mrs. Marcia has told me that she catches on so quickly with everything. They have show and tell for the girls every Thursday which means that they must get in front of the class and explain what they brought from home and why. Emilee finds crazy stuff to take every week, but her first show and tell she showed off her rocks that she had cleaned with her rock tumbler that she received from Grandma Dawn and Grandpa Malec for Christmas. The teacher said Emilee did a great job explaining about her rocks. So we are very proud of her. On thursday's they also have field trip days, but she hasn't been on one yet due to the weather. So they all wear colored t-shirts. Her t-shirt is yellow and it has her school name on it. Emilee is learning how to make the letter E for her name, but she knows how to pick out her name when she sees it. She has her own cubby that she puts her stuff in as she comes in the door, but she has to pick out her cubby first with her name on it. So she is doing well with that. We plan to keep Emilee in this school for now, but may look into home schooling once the other girls get older. Utah has a great homeschooling program that helps connect with other home schooled kids with activities, etc. So we'll see what God has planned in that area. Emilee will be starting 3 day's a week starting in Sept. so that may be better for her. Right now she is attending an afternoon class that is two days a week from 12:30 till 3:15pm. but in the fall it will switch to the morning class. I'm just blessed that this school is just up the street from us and that there is room for her to be there. Emilee is very proud of her school and loves to tell people the name of her school which is Hilltop Christian School.

Update on Isabella

Here is an update on Isabella. For those of you that don't know, Issy was/is having some trouble getting around by walking. She was still crawling and not even showing a sign of wanting to walk. So we decided to get her evaluated by a therapist. After the evaluation the therapist diagnosed Issy at only progressing at a 9mo old baby stage. So she is 5mo's behind. She has low muscle tone in her legs and that is why she is afraid to use them. They also plan to work with Issy's speech because she is still just saying daddy and blabing the rest. They said she should already be saying at least 8-9 consonant's. So they plan to work with her along with my help on that too. The therapist will be coming to our house at least twice a month to do some exercises with her and other stuff for an hour on every visit. After the very first evaluation Issy finally started to make her way up the stairs and loves to do it all the time. I think she feels extra special when she makes it all the way to the top. We are working on her learning to come down now. I'm just proud of her for finally doing this. Emilee was doing this at 9mo's. Issy has also started to stand up next to the furniture, but no scooting yet since the last appt. She is also starting to pull herself up onto things. They plan to work with her for at least 6mo's and hopefully that is all she'll need. If she isn't showing an improvement by june then they will get an MRI done on her lower legs to make sure there is nothing serously wrong. We appreciate the prayers during this time for some patience and not to push anything.

Exciting Updates!

Sorry that it has been awhile since I've blogged. It has been pretty busy around the Malec house. So I'm hoping to get caught up here. Going back as far as Christmas, we had an awesome time here as a family in Utah. Wewoke up to snow not only on the ground, but it snowed all day long. Emilee loved it! The girl's didn't wake up until almost 10am and that was because we went and woke them up. So that was really nice for mommy and daddy. We started the day out with the story of baby Jesus from both the Bible and then from the Veggie Tales Bible. Then we sang "Happy Birthday" to Jesus. The girl's both loved having gift's to open from everyone and they were very good about being patient to open them. We also enjoyed being able to go see all the light display's throughout Utah which Emilee really, really loved. She thought she was in Disneyland. This year we were also able to attend our Church Christmas show which was so awesome! It was filled with great music and then ended with a candle light service. I've alway's liked those. This was a Christmas to always remember. Hope yours was just as nice.