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Grandpa and the kids

Picture of Grandma Alice

Oh yes and I forgot to mention this. Jesus went to pick up Dillon from school this was a couple weeks before Thanksgiving. I got a call from the office from Jesus saying he cut his lip right before school ended on some rainbow steps from a little boy who was picking them up and Dillon was running and ran right into him anyway they said he might have needed a couple stitches and we should take him to his Dr. Ok so Jesus took him to the Dr thinking a couple stitches and walla nope Dr had to end up sending us to a plastic surgeon because the cut was so big so i met Jesus there and ohhh my I didn't think it was that bad. Hid lip was cut from inside out totally split open so 9 stitches later and a couple more from the outside and we get this;0) plus side I found my self a plastic surgeon for me later on, ya know when things start going in the wrong direction !!!

So this will just be pictures since I am so behind so here is from Thanksgiving

we had a fun time with lots of family then mom decided to do the midnight madness and did not
stop shopping until 1 in the afternoon so yep that is more then 12 hours of shopping!!!!

Caitlin's First Day of Ballet!!!

Baby girl is a little shorter then the rest ;0)

Caitlin's potty chair

So again I have been meaning to update our blog but kept putting it off and putting it off.

We are all done getting evaluated from the school district and we will have our meeting next week but I have some what of the just of it. Caitlin is done with services as of December 13th, and she will not be going into the school district for special education. She is measuring age appropriate and above on some things I will exactly where she is at when we go into our meeting but the school psychologist said she was a miracle and how well she is doing with what a fun cute little girl she is which we already know of course!!! I am super proud of Caitlin she really has been such a blessing. She has proven so many Dr's and people wrong and I just am so so proud. It has been ups and downs getting to this point but she has always won every battle and will continue to do so. She is a fighter. I am actually excited once she is fully done with group because we get to have more quality time and we will be doing some fun things to keep her going. We plan on doing library 1 x a week for story time. We have passes to a science center and she is going to be doing ballet/tap 1 x a week. Today was actually her first day of ballet/tap dance and she loved it. She walked in like she knew what she was doing and caught on very quickly. She was so excited to do ballet. We have been talking about alot and signed her up on Friday. she has not stopped talking about it since. When she woke up from her nap today I told time to get ready for ballet and she jumped out of bed and couldn't wait. She looked so so cute. She was a bit tinier then everyone else but she did just as well!!!

Also another big deal is that Caitlin is potty trained about 85%!! We got her a vintage potty chair off Craig's list with a tray and she took to it and walla she still has accidents here and there but for the most part she does great. It just came from one day to the next and yep I do think the potty had the touch. I'll post a picture.

Everything else is good. Dillon is doing really well in school and every Friday folder he has its always good reports so yay for Dillon.

Oh and yes one last thing Caitlin and Dillon now have a bunk bed. Yep Caitlin has retired her cute little toddler bed. It was bitter sweet for me I felt a little sad moving it out of her room. I miss my little girl. I had moved into the living room to get it out of the room while Caitlin was at school and when she got home she said ahhhhhh man mommie!! Looooook my bed here it no go in here mom it go in my room. I had to tell her no because we are putting your big bed in and then she said ok. Caitlin sleeps on the bottom and Dillon is on the top. They look so cute in it. Caitlin looks like a little peanut in it but they love it. I will have to take some bunk bed pictures for next post.

Oh yes and by the way there ain't nothing Caitlin can't say anymore. My favorite saying is when she sees something either she likes or not so much likes she says "Ohhhhh myyyy GOSH, Mommy Loooook"and then will explain what it is that we are suppose to be looking at. Also she told me the other day when she didn't get her way "ughhhh that not fair and criss crossed her arms looking down" oh yes and my favorite one was while we were shopping for ballet clothes it Dillon and Caitlin were having the time of their lives not listening to me and being loud so I said knock it off you guys I have had it and Caitlin mimicked me and said I've Had it!!!" yep like I said ,nothing she can't say. Huh and Dr's said she wouldn't be able to speak but that's not what God says he showed them!!!

updates a long time coming

I have definitely slacked on here that's for sure!!! Just been keeping busy with Dillon an Caitlin. Dillon has started getting homework and we have been reading lots. Caitlin has been attached to my hip and is following me everywhere I go right now. She has her fazes. Sometimes she wants only daddy but right now its mommy faze. We went to the Dr on Thursday to get our flu shots and Caitlin weighs 23 lb 6oz so we are gaining and keeping steady.

We have started to do the whole school district process. Once Caitlin turns 3 she gets released from early intervention and then the school district has to take over. A few months back I was really sad to be leaving her global program knots in my throat and everything. I am going to miss her being where she is at right now. She loves it there. I think though I have had time to process it and I am still super sad but I think I am getting a little more better and coming to terms with it. So a couple weeks back we had our first appointment with the school so they can let us know what things were going to happen and all the evaluations she was going to get then once that is done we will see what she will qualify for. So far we have had our school nurse visit and our speech visit. Caitlin got tested on so many things. She didn't get completely scored yet we will find out where exactly she is at once we have our final meeting but the speech therapist did say some what of where she was at. For some of the expressive she was testing at about 24-29 months which is not to far off but for some of her receptive language she was able to get some of the stuff at a 4 1/2- 5 yr old level!! That's my smart girl. So over all she is doing good just a little work to be made and that's all. Also the school physcologist( the one who is basically in charge of the whole shabang) came and watched her on Friday at her global program I of coursed voiced some of my concerns about some of Caitlin's social skills. Now don't get me wrong when Caitlin wants to socialize she definitely can but a lot of times she will get real quite and sometimes will get nervous and her little palms will sweat. Well on Friday she showed none of that at all she was as happy as can be talking and being super silly. Kids always have a way of making you look like you have no idea what you are talking about and love to make you look stupid lol its happen to me a gazillion times but that's OK!! we have another meeting on Tuesday so they can asses her for development and then we are going to get assessed for occupational therapy and adaptive P.E once that is done we will know where we are at. She turns 3 December 14th so we have about a month in half left for everything. I am thinking we will most likely get speech services but not sure if we will get anything else. Caitlin is super smart and doing exceptionally well. I really don't have to many concerns for her. I think she is going to do great in school and whatever she sets out to do. She might need a little extra help here and there but overall doing great. As far as her socializing I think maybe she is just shy like her mommy. Caitlin has to really be comfortable with the person before she will shine her true colors which is super happy,energetic,hyper, silly, always jumping around and just so much fun. Now if she isn't comfortable with someone then she will shut down a little and won't really speak at all and gets really nervous. There are some people she is comfortable around right away and some people its takes awhile. I think its all in approach with her. She needs to be really talked to and to be handled gentle once she warms up to you then you can play rough with her but she has to be comfortable.

Now Dillon on the other hand doesn't need to time to warm up really he is easy going kid that can handle almost any situation. He can meet the person for the very first time and will find something to do with them. You can throw him with a new group of people and he is just fine
he just wants to do whatever they are doing. Dillon's new thing right now is asking everyone what their names are. We can be across the street from someone and he will say hey hey whats your name? He does it in the stores,parks, anywhere. I am trying to really teach him about strangers and not everyone is nice but he just loves everyone.

Nothing much else going on but just seem to be really busy with the kids lately, they have kept us super busy just wanting to play and read and do anything they can. We got a pass to a science center for the year and we have been doing fun stuff like that to.

I have been a little relaxed on picture taking lately so I am going to have to get busy doing that again so I can put some photos up soon.