Today's goings on

I walked out the door to go to Jason's ENT appointment today, when I got a call from Duncan. "Mom, I just threw up." So I had to turn the car around and go check Duncan out of school. I had a nice little helper to get Jason to his appointment. Duncan seems to be doing well, so I don't think I have to worry about him.

Jason will be having new tubes placed in his ears on the 3rd of November. After that we will be having him sedated to have another ABR done, so we can hopefully get a conclusive result on his hearing. More about that when the time comes.

I took Jason to preschool the other day and the first thing he did was run over to the computer. I'd seen a few other kids do this but I knew Jason doesn't know how to run the computer, so it surprised me a bit. The teacher explained they have a touch screen and Jason is VERY good at running the schools computer. INTERESTING.

So Samantha's new favorite thing is to get on the computer and play a game that Jason would like with him sitting next to her. She's a sweet thing.

I bought a black sweat suit and some orange duct tape, and Brett made Jason's costume. I've said all along that he is "My Little Caged Tiger", I think it's pretty darn cute.

Thursday

I'm still getting used to the new schedule. I'm not sure how long it will take. I never would have thought that I would miss the kids as much as I do. REALLY WEIRD!!

As soon as the kids got home from school the tinkling that I dread was heard. Tori asked if she could go meet the Ice Cream Man. I had no cash, but she had done some babysitting for Kristen this summer so she had some money. I told her this might cause some issues with her brother and sister so hurry up and get her ice cream. Immediately Samantha was out asking if she could have some ice cream. I told her I didn't have any cash, but she saw Tori outside. She ran out and asked Tori if she could buy her some ice cream too. My sweet Tori didn't hesitate, and got her little sister a treat. What a sweet girl I have!!

We went to back to school night and met all the kids teachers. I'm excited for the new year. I think the kids have some pretty good teachers. Brett went in to Duncan's class room so I can't tell you exactly what his class will be like but Brett seems very pleased with his teacher. Tori's teacher already loves her. She says she is well liked by everyone, and she is very helpful. She told the teacher she knows the state capitols from an Animaniacs song and her teacher wants her to teach the class. She will also be teaching her class about Braille again this year. Samantha has the same teacher that Tori had in 2nd grade. She is the loviest teacher I've ever seen. Samantha comes home everyday with something new to tell me. She will have a good year.

I have volunteered to walk with the Duncan and Tori's classes. They don't have a first recess so the teachers have the class go walk the track everyday. I figure I can strap Jason in a stroller and walk with the kids, volunteering to help in the classroom won't be easy with him. I don't want to use all my pre-school time volunteering, but if I need to do it once a week with Samantha's class I will.

I went and picked up some dinner for Brett and I after the kids went to bed. (Yes we did feed them, but they wanted McDonalds). I saw the temple in all it's glory and wanted to get a picture of it. My small camera doesn't do it justice. It was such a beautiful sight!
I got home and was looking at the night sky, and saw my first shooting star! It was amazing! I was in shock, I looked around wondering if anyone else was around to spot it. I of course was alone, so it was just me. It was so cool! It almost brought me to tears. It was beautiful, and so unexpected.

I went inside the house to my sweet boys. I thought they were both so cute, so I had to take a picture.

Thursday

Jason's friend Paula came today and we discussed the next few meetings, that will really end up being his transition meetings. Jason grabbed a pen while she was here and Paula started to try and get involved. She drew a face and then said, lets do it again. She drew the circle then one eye. He colored over the eye. Paula said, color the other eye now. Jason drew the another line right where the other eye should be. Paula said, "Good, now draw it's nose." He drew a circle where the nose should be. Paula and I made eye contact and she said, "Ok, now draw the mouth." Jason drew a mouth. Then he drew a shape for the body. He appeared to be done, but Paula continued to help him draw arms and legs. I'm so excited!!!!


Jason has been digging his room the last couple of days. Of course so have the girls, but that's another story. He looked like he was going to fall asleep in there so I had Brett grab his mattress and we tucked him in. He did fall asleep in there and was out for about 1 hour. He is now in my bed but maybe it's a start.
He also has this new swing in his room. My mother has one just like it at her house, only it's larger. He could sit in it all day!!

Thursday

Max and Olivia spent the night last night. The kids really enjoyed having their cousins over.

This is Olivia asking the girl if that was an Apricot tree????

Max came running upstairs, and said. "Duncan you have real swords!! And, I LOVE your BB gun!!" So I advised Duncan I had some old cans he could shoot at. It was very cute.

The kids slept in Jason's room. I figured they wouldn't want to sleep downstairs in a house they hadn't really been in before. Also Jason doesn't have a bed in his room right now so it definitely has more open space.

Jason wouldn't go to sleep so we let him roam the house with the kids being awake. When the kids all got up to get a drink, I checked on Jason and he was out.
Max was the last one to fall asleep. He said, "I dont' sleep!" So I laid down next to him, put my arm around him and watched a little of UP. At 1:00am he fell asleep. So I got a picture of the crowd.

Duncan just had a lesson in gun safety from Les our neighbor, up camping. So he was explaining all the details to Max. I had to film it.

Thursday

Duncan had soccer at 6:30am again. Brett has been taking him to the soccer field and then going to work. I almost missed him today because I couldn't get up. Tori came into ask me something, and then I remembered Duncan wasn't home. Unsurprising I was the last parent to pick up their kid. Duncan smiled and said, "I wish you would have waited another five or ten minutes. I was going to walk to Grandma Child's house."

Then Leslie stopped by and took the kids up to my Mom's house for a little while. They had fun and Jason and I had a little alone time.

Jean and Jean came to the house to do Jason's six month evaluation. We kept a lot of his goals the same, and we changed our visiting schedules. It should be a little more stable now. They did say that Jason will probably be going to the Special Needs Preschool four days a week. I really think that this will help Jason A LOT!!

Duncan and Brett had to go to soccer practice. I think Duncan is soccer-ed out.

The girls have been playing very well together the past few days. It helps that they have been spending the majority of their days out in the sprinklers or playing with the hose. I guess the cold water is cooling their dispositions.

I made chicken rolls for dinner. A favorite of the kids from Grandma Siddoway. Brett of course had to make the rolls, I'm hopeless there. I opened the flour bin to dust my counter top so I could roll out the dough. I forgot to put the lid back on. This is what I found, when I finally paid attention to more then cooking.

This was the reason for bath number three.

We made chocolate chip cookies after dinner. It really has been quite the enjoyable week.

Thursday

Mom came over and painted some more on the girls wall. It's coming along a step at a time. She thinks that the details will make the picture seem to come together faster. They are going to be going to Iceland soon, so she'll have to work on it when she gets back.

Thursday

Another 3:30am bed time. I know that it's not good for me. However, I've got to work. sigh.....

I woke up to get the kids out to the Moran Eye Center for another appointment. I called them just to make sure and the appointment was yesterday. Nice.....I rescheduled it and the soonest I could get Tori in was September. Thank goodness it's only for her contacts. I can buy some more and have them sent to us. I'll keep trying to get an appointment before school though.

The kids had a sit and veg day. Duncan had a buddy over, but they played xbox all day, then he went up to his buddy's house and played xbox some more.

Brett put a timer on the xbox today, Duncan has already used up his time.

We'll see if I can stay awake today.