Fall Has Come

Pool Party at the Goddards!

Catching Grandpa Cannon before he flies off for work!

A New Ride

We really enjoyed seeing everyone in Utah last month. So did Gloria. We are back into the groove of things here in St. Louis. Abby survived crazy research methods and assessment courses. Now its on to the fun stuff, Applied Behavior Analysis (her main focus or specialization!). I am working now part time at Touchpoint Autism Services providing respite care for a few individuals with autism. They really vary in their degree of social functioning. One is very high functioning and knows how to interact in public just like anyone else really. Another is barely verbal and needs a lot of prompting to do everyday things like eating. It will be a great experience. Three more courses and I'll be finished with the Masters. It's gone by fairly quick. Gloria is healthy even though were still trying to figure out the allergy mystery with these spots still. She is trying out new laughs. Here is a link to one of her latest!

Learning from cousin Josephine!

Dirt from the house plant still tastes good

Loving the OutdoorsAllergy? To what!?

They'll never find me here

8 months

9 MONTHS!LOVE YOU GUYS! TIL NEXT TIME

Tough Cute Girl

This is going to reveal my terrible parenting but for the past month Glory has had a pretty bad rash travel all over her body. It hasn't seem to bother her and she didn't have a temperature so we didn't really do anything about it until this week. Well, I shouldn't say we've done nothing, I did put lavender essential oil on which seemed to help temporarily. We decided to finally take her to see the doctor. He ordered some allergy testing and prescribed benadryl. I made Patrick take her to get her blood drawn, just thinking about that makes me hurt for her but he said she did okay, even though they had to poke her twice poor thing. We are still awaiting the results.

More Pictures of Summer Doings

This is at the Tower Grove house at the Botanical Gardens, I love these two so much

We had a great visit with Katie Smith up in Nauvoo for a wedding. This is in front of Carthage jail.

More pictures of the City Museum.

Summer in the city! Backamyneckgettin'burntandpretty.

Two words: it's hot. Too hot to move. Too hot even for the cockroaches that live at the bottom of our stairs to come out. I've been spending most of my days inside doing homework and watching Glory grow up far too quickly for my liking. Every day it seems she learns a new skill, a sound to make or a movement with her hand.

We have ventured out for a few activities.

I went with my recently car-free friends on a little literary tour of St. Louis. There are surprisingly a lot of famous authors from here, including T.S. Eliot and Tennessee Williams the others I wish I could have written down, oh well. It was a lot of taking Gloria in and out of the trailer but it was fun, mostly because it was prior to the extreme heat wave.

Gloria was also able to attend her first Cardinals game. She didn't seem that into baseball yet but it was one of the most exciting games I have ever seen.

My friend Jen from DC was visiting and treated us. What a sweetheart!

Celebrating Patrick's birthday at the City Museum. This place is indescribably cool. The pictures do it little justice but here are some of them anyway.

All in all, Glory's seventh month of life has been pretty awesome. I feel so blessed to be able to take advantage of the cool things to do here.