Happy Holidays!

All the best for the season and all year long,
-Sally, Craig, Chase, and Corinne

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Look at me! All Political and Stuff!

So, I actually testified at a Health Policy Hearing of the Michigan House of Representatives. Crazy!

They are looking at 4 bills that will mandate that insurance companies cover treatments for Autism. (Right now, 99.9% of them actually state that anything with a diagnosis of Autism is explicitly not covered.) Read my post from April 27 for more information about this.

If you are in Michigan and interested in helping us pass these mandates into law, please contact your senators and representatives. The Autism Insurance in Michigan blog has information about how to help.

Chase Update
He is doing soooooo great! He knows all of the Christmas songs and all of his letters. He also has this Little Leaps game thing that plays games with a controller and a DVD. He keeps wanting to play it in German. He's able to turn it to German by himself, and he even follows the directions. Maybe languages are his super-power. Maybe he really was speaking Chinese before he started speaking English? We used to joke about that all the time.

Corinne Update
Our little peanut is putting words together in almost sentences. Like, "No momma pop! My pop!" and, "No momma cookie! My cookie!" It's amazing how different she is than Chase was. I realize now just how far behind his speech really was.

Christmas
I'm about 99% done shopping (mostly online) and about 1% done wrapping. I'm going to have to work on that soon. My favorite things that the kids are getting are guinea pigs and this thing:
Hopefully, I don't regret the guinea pigs...

Also, TechSmith put out our Christmas Card. There's an online version and photo album that you should check out.

Oof-da!

Thought I should pull that out. Our weather this last week really reminds me of our time in Minnesota: Freezing, SUPER windy, but not a ton of snow. At least that's what I remember...

So, the big news this week? Well, my back was bothering me the last two weeks. Cory jumped on my back and aggravated my bulging disk, which hasn't bothered me in over a year.) I decided to go in and get something stronger than my Tylenol. Well, I bent down to pick up the pen top that I dropped and BAM! My back completely goes out. Nice. It was more painful than giving birth without any drugs. Really. I almost passed out. At least I was in the doctor's office.

So, I've been out since Wednesday morning. I'm feeling better, but not 100%. I'm still taking my muscle relaxer and Vicadin. They help my back but make me feel kind of sick. So that's fun...

Anyway, I hope your days are all going better than mine.

Oh, April, the way I got the good hair pictures: played the show online, paused it, and used SnagIt to capture what I wanted. I'll try to get a picture of my hair soon. Craig's work party is this weekend, so hopefully, I'll get a good one then.