It's my fault!

There are two reasons why I havn't been posting- one is that our new camera broke, leaving us with our yicky, broken, held together with rubber bands camera. The second is an obsession that I am slightly ashamed of:

Littlest Pet Shop. HOWEVER:

I am not the only Alcumbrack-McDaniel dragging poor Kyan to the toy store for a toy obsession labeled ages 4 and up:

My dearly beloved has his Star Wars Galactic Heroes.

But I know that if you are here after the many months of not posting, what you really want to see is this:

Despite the fact that he is chosing to communicate strictly thru temper tantrums and meltdowns rather than words, this seems to be a facinating age. But we'll be EXTREMELY excited when he learns to speak! (for the record, we have one current word and it's non-verbal- he says "all done" in ASL. We blame Auntie Jane.