A little of this and that

The update on Jeff is that he has recovered nicely from his teeth pulling. He has actually done so well it is almost like he never had it done. Of course he has been on his medication to help with the recovery so he has been able to manage very nicely. He has also shown his stubborn streak a bit in not wanting any help except for that first day. It has kind of been nice to get the whole thing behind us.

Today we took our first step towards Andrew's future in school. I had a meeting with the school counselor who opened another file and has gotten the ball rolling to re-evaluate him. He'll spend some time going through more testing to determine if he is kindergarten ready. I expressed my concerns in the meeting and was told around the end of April or beginning of May we will meet again to discuss the results and what my options will be. She sent me home with one survey and told me she'd be sending more home this week. I'm a bit nervous about this whole issue so I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

When I got home from the meeting I was going through my usual routine and cleaning up when I looked at the counter and saw my bananas were turning brown. This prompted me to make banana bread. I love banana bread and so does Meg so I thought it might be a fun thing to make. Andrew has become my little helper lately. As I get stuff done he is always close at hand to see if there is something he can do to help. He loves taking out the recycling bin and anything cooking related. He helped me make the banana bread today and was very happy.

After the banana bread was in the oven I was picking up stuff and found a note taped to Megan's door.

It says "I am not here I went to the store to buy my kids food please come back later" I think she may have been playing house and left it up. I love to see how grown up she is getting and the stuff that she thinks of. The things her seven year old mind thinks up just make me smile. My family sure does make life fun sometimes. What would I do without them??

No More Wisdom

Today Jeff got five teeth removed. All four wisdom teeth and a bonus tooth that had been having lots of problems. Boy was it fun times. We were up early and thanks to MarGene staying with the kids I was able to go and be there if needed. It took about an hour and there were no problems. Things went well and we were sent home with four different prescriptions to help manage the recovery. Jeff got a chocolate milk shake for lunch and I sent him off to bed to relax. I thought he'd take a nap but of course he didn't. The numbness has worn off and he can feel some of the pain but nothing bad. I'm glad he is a good patient. At least after this he won't have to worry about those darn teeth again.

Thank You CTR ring

So most people know that getting through 3 hours of church on Sunday is pretty much mission impossible with Andrew. We do okay getting through sacrament meeting and then we go down hill from there. It has been a battle ever since we entered the primary program. We often end up taking 2 cars to church where after the 1st hour I take Andrew home.

This Sunday I got to have some help from Jeff and we actually made it through all 3 hours for the first time in about a year and a half!! We've been giving it a try slowly to re-enter primary and stick it out for longer. I've gotten him to stay successfully for opening exercises of primary but no way to lesson time. Today during the lesson Jeff was such a big help in getting Andrew to stick around. Sometimes Dads just have the extra touch. Andrew learned about baptism and Choosing the right. At the end of the lesson each student got a CTR ring and he was so excited. Now he was no angel and was often times out of his seat but the teachers were really patient and just ignored him.

Let's hope that some of lesson was soaked up by him. Not to sure how much he got but at least we were present. Cross your fingers and say a little prayer for us for next Sunday.

Meg's 1st Grade Spring Concert

Megan had her 1st Grade Spring Concert at school last night. She was extremely excited and couldn't wait to perform. Her assignment was to wear something red or orange. They were having a little rainbow theme going and each class was assigned different colors to wear.

They sang eight songs and Megan even had a little solo in one of them. I thought she was pretty dang cute and we had a lot of fun. Of course you'd expect her Mom to say that but she was the only one with a pretty "Auntie Laurie" flower in her hair!! She was truly a spring flower.

We even got Andrew to come in and sit down for the whole thing. At first it was a rough start and Jeff took him straight out to play but as the concert got started he joined me in the seats and he watched all 8 songs. At the end of each one he'd clap and said "Yea Megan!! Yea Megan! It was equally as cute.

Here are 2 short video clips of the evening. I didn't video the whole song as I thought that would be too long just a sample of them to get the idea.

All in all it was a fun night and we are really proud of our Meg. She did an awesome job!!

Reading is Fun!!

Megan is new to a reading program at school called Accelerated Reader. She has been going strong for about a month and a half. She gets to pick out some books and bring them home and we read them with her every night. Then the next day she takes them back to school and takes a test on them. Usually Andrew wants nothing to do with the reading time or he'll hang out in the room but isn't really interested. For the first time ever he crawled into Jeff's lap and said "yes read" with a big grin on his face. I just got the tail end of a book on video and thought it was a nice step in the right direction for us. It is hard to keep his interest on much of anything so this was really nice for us.

Oh let it shine...

My kids have just had a week off of school for Mid-Winter Break. At the start of the week they were kind of excited for a bit of time off but as the week wore on they became bored and restless. It wasn't easy trying to come up with interesting things for them to do. They usually ended up fighting with each other of the littlest things.

We actually have had some good weather lately with the sun out. The air still has a little winter bite to it but the sun is out and that means it is all good to go outside for some fun. Jeff and I took the kids to the park and they soaked up every second of it. I think the rest of Puyallup had the same idea as the park was packed with people. The play structures had so many kids on them that it was hard to keep track of where our 2 children were. We ended up taking a little nature hike around the pond (.8 of a mile circle). The kids enjoyed finding the biggest sticks they could find to dip in the water or help them walk the hike. As we stopped at little water side spots the kids also tried their hand at rock skipping. Let just say a lot more practice is needed :} It was a fun outing and nice to get out of the house. I think we all needed it. Now it is time to get back into the swing of our normal routine as school starts back up tomorrow. It will be nice to have life get back to normal.

Andrew's 1st spend the night

While Megan was enjoying her slumber party with her friends Andrew got some fun one on one time with Grandma and Papa. This was his first big spend the night all by himself at age 4. I'm told he was really good. I was a little worried for the night time but he fell asleep by 9:30pm without any problems. I'm glad it worked out so well and everyone was happy.