The question “If you could go anywhere in America, where would it be?”

Hmm, I have been fantasizing about this for awhile (well, with four kids and no time for yourself you do that on occasion). I would love to go to Montana. My husbands grandparent live up there and we haven't been able to visit in 6 years. They are in there 90s and grandpa has dementia. Grandma still has her brains and health.

Uh, how I would love to sit and visit with grandma and her friends. We love playing canasta and pinochle.

Busy Morning

This morning Josiah had his 2 month well baby check up and the other three had their annuals that we were late on. We had to be out of the house by 9:40am to be at the doctors by 10:10am, we didn’t make it out until 10am.

For the most part the kids were good. As good as they all could be in a cramped room. I really don’t like the pediatrician we have picked but I will continue with him.

All of them did very well while the doctor looked at them. Kiley didn’t want to open her mouth though, hey I don’t blame her.

Here are their stats:

Nathan ~ 40lbs, 43 ½ in
Aiden ~ 34lbs, 40 in
Kiley ~ 25lbs, 35 in
Josiah ~ 11.5lbs, 23in

Nathan and Kiley had one shot each. Aiden had his kindergarten shots done now so we don’t have to worry about them next year. And Josiah had his first round of shots. Kiley and Josiah did the best. Nathan was the worst, flailing, kicking and screaming. Aiden did ok, he cried a bit and was whining a bit after them.

Happy Father's Day

This morning like every other morning I woke up and pumped, but unlike every other morning Jared stayed in bed, cuddled next to Josiah. I get up go down stairs with the older two and make Jared breakfast. I feed the boys, take Jared his breakfast. When I get up there I find Kiley on my side all covered up next to Josiah and daddy watching TV. That made my heart leap a little faster; it was a great site to see.

The kids made daddy hand prints with poems and cards. We then all went up stairs and gave them to him. Later today after Josiah takes his nap we will be heading to the park to play for a bit.

After that we are going to BBQ. Jared doesn’t know that Serena went and exchanged the tank for the grill and bought some steaks, corn on the cob, potatoes, and other veggies for dinner tonight.

It has started out as a great day and will continue to be.

Happy Father’s day, my love.

Here are some pictures I took yesterday

2 months

Josiah turned two months yesterday. I didn't want to post to take away from Aiden though.

You know I never gave him permission to grow up yet. He is just getting so big and wanting to do bigger boy stuff. Like the other day he was trying to pull himself up to sit when we had him propped up in our hands.

I don't want him growing up so fast. I can’t get enough of his smell or how soft his skin is against my lips when I kiss him, or how he looks up at me with those inquisitive eyes of his.



10 Random things about Josiah
1. He loves the ceiling fan. He gets mad at it if it’s not moving.
2. He snorts when he cries.
3. He loves taking showers.
4. He loves being naked.
5. He belly laughs already.
6. He can hold and control his head really well.
7. He smiles and talks to us all the time.
8. He tries so hard to control his arms.
9. When on his tummy lying on our chests, he pushes himself up to look at everything. But when doing tummy time on the floor he won’t.
10. Josiah makes the cutest noises when he stretches or he thinks his bottle is being taken away. (disclaimer: I wanted to add for all those booby Nazis out there that his bottles are full with pumped breast milk, always has been always will be.)

Aiden

Aiden had a preschool evaluation today to see if he qualifies for the Colorado Preschool program.

He did very well. Now it's just a waiting game. We should know by the end of June if he will be going to preschool starting in July.

Who is this handsome boy?


Aww, it's Aiden. My little man, he's such an adorable little man I must say.

Housing & other thoughts

For about a month and a half now we have been trying to find another rental house that would fit all of us and my sister and her two boys. Everything was either too expensive or wouldn't work for all of us.

We finally found a house we all could agree on. It was big enough for all of us to live comfortably. The back yard was huge, open to bike trails and a school. The man came back and told us no, that discouraged all of us, me for the fact that Jared talked me into sending Nathan to a public school. I looked into the school that the house backed up to. I fell in love with it right away. It's a year round school with a challenging curriculum. Exactly what Nathan needs.

Within the next few days I asked Jared if we could drive around that area to see if we could find any other houses for rent in that school's boundaries. We found a gorgeous house right away. It's my dream house I have been drawing on paper. It too backed to the school and the bike trails.

My sister was hesitant to look at it. She didn't like the price at first. We scheduled a showing that we all could go look at the house on a Sunday, she had plans. The man was going out of town for business until Wednesday night. We finally got her over to the house to look at it, after she had a tooth pulled that same day. She likes it not in love with it but I don’t care about that.

We put in our applications last night and the guy should be calling us back some time soon. It sounds like we will get this house but you never know.

On to other things, I don’t know what to do with Nathan anymore. He seems to me like he’s becoming more out of control. If you don’t know Nathan has a Sensory Processing/Integration Disorder (SPD or SID). He was going to pre-K back in the fall of 2007. He was having occupational therapy two days a week. This was helping him greatly. We took him out February 2008 to move to CA. We were trying to find a program that he was in, in CO but we never found anything.

Kindergarten came and we put Nathan in, regardless of my feelings about the school. Nathan already knew his ABCs in order and out, he also knew their sounds. He knew how to count to 10 and recognize them in order and out. He was even counting backwards. Nathan was asking us to teach him to read. All the other kids in his class were nowhere near where Nathan was. This school never challenged Nathan so he would get up because he was board, within the first three months they deemed him a problem child.

Oh, before school started Jared gave the principal a copy of Nathan evaluation records so that they were aware of Nathan's situation they knew how to better handle Nathan during the school hours. They never did anything with them. The last two days Nathan attended this school he was sent to the office at lunch, right before I would pick him up. The first time it happened they said that he would get up when he was done and wonder around and that the teacher couldn’t keep a handle on him. The second time was because he kicked a kid. Yeah I get that, the kid took something away from Nathan and wouldn’t give it back, so Nathan kicked him. Well what would you do at that age and someone took something from you and wouldn’t give it back? So they sent Nathan to the office not even letting him finish his lunch or talking to him about what happened. I took him out right then and there.

Since then I have decided to home school the kids. But after finding this school behind this house I want Nathan in this school. I am still scared and have great anxieties with how they will treat Nathan. This school however is in a really good school district and they recognize Nathan’s disorder. I am praying they will work with him, give him the academic challenge he wants/needs and teach him how to live functionally with his disorder.

Here at home Nathan is not getting the sensory input he is seeking out. Which in turn is causing him to be out of control seeking it and driving his mommy and daddy crazy. He needs the structure that a public year round school can give him.

Wow that was a lot didn’t mean for it to be so long. Also a disclaimer, I am by no means a grammar expert. So you will see a lot of grammar mistakes in my writing, do not judge me on it.

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