Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

The top 3 reasons how I know my daughter has OCD:

1: She puts her movies in neat rows. She does the same thing with shoes.

2. When choosing a straw to drink from, first she picked all of the yellow ones (except the one she missed) then moved on to the blue ones, then she will use the red ones. If you grab the wrong color she gets mad and picks out the right one. Next time I buy straws I will try to find a pack that's all the same color.

3. Since she was a baby, she has had a soft blanket and as a comfort she puts one corner of the blanket on/in her nose and feels it and "sniffs" it. She always uses the same corner and she knows if it's the wrong one. She will feel each corner until she finds the correct one to hold.

I'm sure Art and I are to blame for her personality since I am the type of person who likes things very clean, uncluttered, correct, and organized. Art is the type of person who likes things just how he left them and doesn't want anyone to touch his stuff. Keira seems to be a pretty particular person too, and hopefully she will be able to harness that to her benefit in life.

Progress Report

I have been practicing my flute nigh unto every day since it arrived 3 weeks ago. Here is a sample of what I can do so far.

Happy Birthday for Kyle since today is his birthday.


Love is a Song - Bambi


Over the Rainbow - Wizard of Oz

The Bird Box

Today Keira was playing with an empty box that jewelry comes in, pretending that there were birds inside. So, I made her imagination come to life and printed out birds and a nest for her to play with.

The nest and mama bird are attached and the hungry baby birds are loose. She calls it her "Bird Box" and she thinks it's pretty cool.