A New Week, A New Month

Ty is now big enough to put his backpack that holds his pump, on his back. I tried this the other day to see if it would slow him down any. It has, sort of. When he scoots along now, it sounds like he has a wooden leg. Slide, bump, slide, bump. The backpack is exactly the same length as his upper body, so as he scoots, the bottom of the pack thumps the floor. At this very moment, he is busy throwing all clothes out of the one of the boys baskets... they used to be folded.

Jake had a productive week of deciding to give himself a partial haircut. According to him, his hair was too long, so he took matters into his own hands, while at school. I think I did a very good job of trimming it to blend. I can still see his cut marks.....he screamed like a banshee the entire time I cut his hair - everytime he would move, and sometimes not, the scissors would pull at least one small hair. Ouch. I think he made it 3 days this week without hitting someone at school or on the bus.

Sam. Sam has his oh so sweet moments. Sam has his oh so I am not going to cause bodily harm to him moments. He didn't receive any 'F' grades on his report card - this is better than I thought he would get. He has been reading really well this week. I started a book with him, and he loved it so much, he didn't wait for me to read with him, the 2nd day...He has now started the other book from the library, without me. Something about mutant underwear, I think.

Last week, Ty and I met his new endocrinologist. I like him. We then met with his new occupational and physical therapists for their first time evaluations. We are going to try these sessions back to back, once a week. 2 hours on Wednesdays each week, starting at the end of the month. Ty starts educational therapy this week - this will be once a week. He will also have a swallow study done on Thursday. Speech therapy will begin sometime soon. This therapy will be twice a week - 30 minutes each.

Tomorrow morning - my adventure with putting more pictures on this blog and trying to figure out how to put other things on as well, begins.......

Rachel, my youngest sister, got married in November. She and Ryan were finally able to have their reception, last night. It was fun. We ate lots of no bake cookies, lemon bars, chocolate chip cookies, wheat thins with yummy fruit cheese dip stuff, shrimp cocktails, and sausage balls, peanuts and mints, and the Hawaiian punch with 7-UP drink. Lots of music, pretty pictures and friends made it a good night.