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Randy has great memories of playing in forts as a kid.  His mom would help him and his big brother, Tony make elaborate forts complete with tunnels and rooms.  So, Randy and the big kids had their own fort building time and the kids slept in it last night.  Well, Abbey lasted almost all night, she got hot and went to her own bed. 

Here’s a good shot of it, with Payton cleverly showing us the front door.  There was a back exit too, and even a room that included the TV so they could watch a movie.  Major dad points! 

Lainey missed out on fort-building night, she had already hit the sack :)  Here she is showing the face she makes when we tell her to smile.  We might need to work on that a little. 

She’s still healing very well, no problems.  It’s been 4 weeks now and her next (and, hopefully last) post-op appt. is Thursday morning.  We found out this weekend that she does indeed know who we all are.  We spread out in the family room and Randy asked her “where’s Payton?”, “where’s Marley?”, etc. and she got it all right!  She also has another purposeful word now, other than pointing to her eye and saying it.  She’ll now approximate the word “more” rather than just signing it.  It comes out more like a “mo”, but we’ll take it. 

Now, that’s a better smile!  Wonder what we said to her that time?  As you can tell, it’s crunch time on the bangs or no bangs decision!  We’re pretty sure we’re going with no bangs, so I need to get a LOT of cheap hair clips/elastics since I anticipate losing them as quickly as I put them in.