Trip to Tri-Cities

We went to the Tri-Cities, WA this weekend to see David's grandpa, and this is the only picture I have because the camera battery went dead after this. What is this you ask? This is a picture of the flowers in the median strip in Albany. There was a major traffic halt and it took us 1.5 hours to get from our house to the Jefferson exit...this should take about 25 minutes. There were times when we were parked on the freeway for five minutes at a time without moving at all. And after all that, we finally get up to the place where the problem is, and we can't even tell what happpened. Just a big truck..jacked up, but no other car seemed to be involved. Yet they had one lane blocked off, and were stopping traffic in the other lane periodically. So there is the reason I noticed and had time to take pictures of the flowers. David's grandpa Woodie is in the hospital with pneumonia. He has been in the hospital about 4 times in the past 6 months. He wasn't eating, and was sleeping all the time. He perked up quite a bit when he saw Alexa and David. He kept saying how cute she was and that "grandpa loves you." She sat up on his bed and cuddled up next to him on Sunday. She stayed there for 10 minutes or more. She is such a sweetie!
It seems like Woodie will probably be going back to his his rest home place and going on hospice if the diagnosis meets their criteria.

Yesterday we went to Eugene to the neurologist. We were still hoping for some sort of diagnosis for Alexa that would meet the insurance company's requirements to cover her speech therapy. However, there is no physical explanation for her developmental delays that is visible in the MRI. The neurologist says that this is common. Approximately 50% of kids with DD have no known cause.
We stopped by to see our friends Tayler and Reese and Carleen. Alexa and Reese were playing together very happily.