Ready for Preschool?
August 30, 2005 10:02 PM

Thank you to everyone who has made journal entries. Some days reading these really help me make it through the day. Sort of my yoga or therapy.

Juliana is such a maniac! I don't know what other word better describes her. She is a constant ball of energy from the moment that she wakes up in the morning until she falls over at night. She has recently learned how to take her shirt off by herself. This morning she went into the bathroom by herself and took it off, put it in the bathtub and turned the water on. I guess she didn't like what I had picked out for her!

I had a meeting last week about Juliana starting preschool in March after she turns three. My mom and I have bets now on how quickly she will get kicked out of school. She is such a bully. We tried a couple of hours of preschool over the summer. She hit a little girl, took her toy, and ran away. I guess I will get to know her teacher and the principal quite well.

She is always doing something funny, usually something that she shouldn't be doing. I will updated again very soon to let you all know what kind of trouble that she has gotten into recently.

—Tami

New House, New Job
August 18, 2005 7:35 AM

am so very sorry to everybody who has been checking regularly for updates. Juliana is doing FANTASTIC!!! Our lives have been very hectic over the past 6 weeks. We have moved into a different house and Thom has been selected for Chief. For everybody who is not familiar with the Navy this is a very big promotion and with is comes lots of work and very long hours for not only Thom, but the rest of us also. We have also just returned from our first vacation with Juliana. My family finally got to meet her. I think she wore them out.

I hope everybody who saw the documentary enjoyed it. I have heard such great response to it. We are going to be filming again with the same crew for her next surgery in October. I spoke with Dr. Wolfe last week and he gave me an idea of what is coming up next. He is going to work on closing her mouth in a little bit more and he is also going to be using Bone Morphagenic Protein to help promote bone growth in her jaw. I haven't been able to find a lot of info on this, but our doctor here at home says that it is a great thing.

I will update again very soon with different pictures too.

—Tami