Cleaning up.

looks like the closing of 2006 is a fantastic one. yay for Simon! and I hope the beginning of 2007 is even better...
Happy New Year Ali.
Jamie

What a great way to start the New Year and it is so awesome to see how Simon is developing! Happy New Year to you all!

Happy New year Ali! Moving must be a real pain especially at Christmas time!
So glad to have followed Simon's progress via your blog. Meeting you in Sydney was such a buzz for me.
Keep up the great work....YOU INSPIRE
....YOU CREATE
....YOU REFLECT
....YOU SHARE
....YOU ROCK
Take care Ali...
Lyn (Australia)

Just wanted to wish you and your family a Happy New Year. Thanks for sharing your life with us through your blog. I look forward to catching up with what you are up to every day! Wishing you a year of happiness and joy!

I totally agree about the moving thing. Not only am i still recovering from my own move - I went and helped a friend do her final clean up - urgh! So over moving. Roots going down now!!!!!!!

Ali...happy 2007! May God bless you with an amazing year filled with warm family moments :)

Happy New Year, Ali! I hope it's a great one for you and your family. Good luck with the rest of the move!
And thanks for the smile with the story about Simon repeating lines from TV shows... I remember those days, and we still hear that from time to time. It's really something else, to watch them learn language like this... definitely moving in the right direction. Before long, more and more of his language will become more spontaneous, and you'll look back and miss the quirky little lines from movies and TV shows. But hey, it's all good, right? :)

Ali I'll be in Tampa for my granddaughter's first birthday in a couple weeks. I have all day Sunday to myself. I would love to know where that flea market is........what town? My best high school friend lives between Tampa and Orlando so we would like to meet there and shop! And by the way my daughter is the one who is going into speech therapy to work with Autistic children. She's been accepted to a college that offers an Undergrad in Communication Disorders and is on her way to becomine a ST.
Dana in VA

Simon rocks! I just love hearing about the wonderful and funny little things he comes up with :) Happy New yar to you all!!!

ROFL! "You break it, you fix it!" Makes perfect sense to me! I know it's MUCH easier to say than do but, try to keep track of those things he says...between my three kids, I could write a book!
Good luck with all the moving stuff...we've been in our house for exactly a year and a half and just started painting this week. I also got curtains the week before Christmas, but, my kitten Molly has been climbing up them and now they are full of holes! It never ends...lol.

Hi Ali, happy new year --
wasn;t sure if you are familiar with the work of Lisa Volrath. Had never remembered seeing a mention of her so here is a link
http://www.lisavollrath.com
You do have to register to see her galleries but it is so worth it. She has started making "Gluebooks" which remind me of your artist journals. Really fantastic, juicy stuff on there. I can get lost for hours.
Enjoy 2007!

Hi! Just found your blog and wanted to say hi. Love your stuff! Your a great blogger, too. Good reads.

http://twopeasinabucket.kaboose.com/pg.asp?cmd=display&layout_id=1056105
kinda nervous about doing this...I mean, this is just my little 'ole page and I'm showing it to Ali Edwards...Ali Edwards. But Ali Edwards inspired me, she inspires me...to create, to have fun...to be happy...so here goes nothing.
Hope you enjoy (and I really hope I'm doing this right)!