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Anna is enjoying her new wheelchair. In this picture, she is zipping down the road in front of our house. Yesterday we took her to Costco. Nice wide concrete isles were available for her to peruse. It was a great experience. For the first time, Anna was able to display developmentally appropriate behaviors- like running away from her parents in the store. Seriously, though, she enjoyed being independently mobile. And I really did have an experience where I was picking up a (huge multi pack) box of Kleenexes, and while my back was turned, she sped away. She didn't get far- just around the corner and into the next isle, but you should have seen the look on the other customer's face when she saw this little toddler flying down the isle in a light-up wheel chair with mom trotting after her, grasping an infant in a sling with one arm and holding a huge box of Kleenexes under the other. I'm sure you can imagine the fun we had with all three of these little guys at the store.....
In other news, we are moving a little closer to the construction of our new home. Last week we had another meeting with the contractor. He wanted to change yet another detail of the plans, causing the architect to have to edit and reprint all the pages again. We are signing the papers for the land this week, the house has been staked out on the lot, and we have our final quote in. Our loan should be going through soon, so sometime in the next four weeks they will be able to officially start on the house. Yea!!! We are looking at being finished by the end of the year, although we may not make good on our promise of Thanksgiving in the new house. For fun, Brad and I went to h.h.gregg on our "date" Friday night and priced some appliances. We are actually supposed to be picking out brick and shingles right now, since that is what the builder told us to do, but looking at front loading washer/dryers was much more fun. I did find out that the major appliance brands won't come out with the magnetic induction stove tops for a few more months, so we didn't get to see any. It doesn't really matter, though, because they will have them in stores before we need them anyway. I can't wait to update everyone in a few weeks when we finally break ground and grade the lot. What with the wheelchairs and toys and babies around here, our current home is shrinking every day!