Sorry for the break in postings, but things have been hectic around the holidays. Molly is doing well and keeping us very busy.

We had a wonderful trip to Maine and a great Christmas with my family. Molly loved their cat (Tony) and seemed excited by the snow. We bundled her up to play in the snow and she was interested at first, then I made the mistake of sitting her in the snow at which point she announced "I need to poop" and we headed in. My parents have a hot tub and we were in it everyday. She seemed to feel better and have more energy after she got out.

She amazed us with her ability to remember names and she loved wishing people "Merry Christmas" by name.

We drove down to Massachusetts for a night to see my Mom's extended family and had a nice visit with everyone. We visited old co-workers on the way back to Maine, which was a nice bonus to our trip.

We were happy to get back home after a ten day trip.

We picked up her new power chair the Wednesday before we left and finally got to let her drive it when we got back. She took to it relatively quickly and is now asking to go out and drive it (or "turn" as she says). She really goes in whatever direction she wants and is doing a fairly good job of listening when we say "stop". We had our scariest incident happen this evening. She was driving down the ramp outside and one of the wheels clipped the railing at the end and spun her a round and the railing came within a couple inches from her face. We feel EXTREMELY fortunate that this ended as well as it did. Thankfully, she wasn't shaken by the incident and happily drove all over the neighborhood.

We still have not figured out the best kind of lift to get the chair in and out of the van, so we haven't been able to take the chair out and about but hopefully we will have it figured out soon.

Molly's talking is improving by leaps and bounds. She is now stringing 3 and 4 words together and saying more and more.