feeling better

Finally feeling better. :-) Still have a little cough, but it could be worse.

Started up with homeschool again. Not that I quit. It's just with all the kids camps and illnesses, it just got lost in the shuffle. Anyhow, we appear to be on track again. Everyone is getting lists to work on every day. We chip away at our list. Even I, cleaned off my desk. Pretty impressive. My room is starting to look like a room and not a junk pile. :-)

Andrew went to the E.N.T. today to have his blood work read. Doctor said Andrew is allergic to: Peanuts, sesame seeds, most trees and most grasses. He said the allergy to grass is extreamly high. He recommended Andrew have allergy shots. Don't know yet what we are going to do.

Any thoughts? In general I don't care for shots/immunizations as all of you are aware, however, I can see that the allergies are affecting lots of area's of his life, hearing, equilibrum, consentration, school work, relationships (hard to have friends when you don't answer them when they talk to you), plus I would like to have him off of all of the allergy meds he is on, but I don't really want another burst eardrum from allergies. So, I don't know, I guess I will have to put some research into it. Well see.

Anyhow, the kids have Karate tonight and I have an appointment with a Elliptical machine! :-P

Hope all is well with everyone.
~H

Parade pictures

Struggle

Not much to tell. I do have pictures though, but I don't know if they will load. Been having a little trouble with that.

My two big boys are away at camp.

I didn't do anything for the 4th. (though the boys did as you will see,...BIG PAUSE,... or not, because the uploader will not work. Andrew was in a Parade, but grandpa took him to it.)

And I am sick. :-P

I hope all of you are,... well,... NOT sick.

Love to all,

~H

Ps. Lene, Miss you. ;-)

H

Sorry Friends

Sorry friends.

George started having seizures again and it really through me for an emotional loop. We've changed his meds again. :-P

The seizures themselves weren't very bad, but I found, though I didn't feel particularly emotional about the seizures themselves, I kinda fell apart about everything else for a few days.

Too add to my trouble since Spencer's work schedule changed again, I have not been able to get a schedule going and have been staying up to late. Not enough sleep. So, I am looking ahead.

Today, will be a work day. I need to do something and see if I can pull out of this slump and get some sleep tonight. Today will be a hard day, but I can do all things through Christ. :-)

Update? Let's see...

Anna had her third birthday. We have lost all therapist (another reason the schedule is messed up). The last test placed Anna at 11month speech. 24 months language comprehension. 25month cognitive. 20month gross motor. Although, I think I already told you guys all this... No help from CCS, Regional Centers or any other normal assistance. I have paperwork to fill out for more financial assistance, but I can't see that panning out at this time.

I am still doing schoolwork with the boys even though it's summer, but it's probably a good thing. We have been close to 110' degrees this week, poor George turns red and starts to swell within 20 minutes of being outside.

I have only been making it to the gym 2 times a week. :-P My goal is 3-4. I hope when we get a new schedule that will go back up. However, they are talking about giving him a rotating shift, so that may not be helpful. :-)

I hope and pray all is well with everyone else.

Love... Lots of love,

~Heather

At the daddy and me camp out, the boys went to visit a cave!

A blackmail photo for sure!

Andrew & George's new Karate Gee's

More photos from the daddy and me trip.

The BIRTHDAY GIRL!

The party!

True Party Animals, that's for sure!

To cool!

Mommy and Me!

~H

Forts and Friends

We have had a fun week of friends and forts. I hope you enjoy the pictures.


The new fort.

A frame style.

If I were a kid, I would be proud to say I had a hand in it. But to the 'normal' adult, I will just say, "I did the out of reach nailing and tree climbing." :-)





My darling girl, all sweet and ready for a day in the heat!





Andrew laughing so hard!





Mr. Theatrical! My George.

Mr. Jonathan and his milk mustache.

Papa in his 'proud' shirt.

Inside our nifty fort! Oh, and as far as kids go, lets see... We have our children (duh), and three of the neighborhood kids.

Here is our friends from Africa! No, not my parents, the other people!

More friend photos!

Of course more photos of our strong and steady fort builders.

And more!

And MY FAVORITE! Anna's Three year old picture, taken by yours truly... :-)




Ta Da!

Beutiful shot, Beutiful Girl!

Love to all,

Heather

School print offs!

Here is a tooo cool website with Phonics Spelling word Posters, You have to click on the poster and then download them to your word or acrobat program and then print them for the kids.

They are pretty neat! http://www.adrianbruce.com/reading/posters/index.htm

Hope all is well with everyone. I am running from one thing to the next, near as fast as I can go.

I have started Karate with my husband. Just about killed me. My body is way tooo out of shape! I only go once a week, the other days of the week I am working in the Cardio room or the pool at the gym.

All the theripies end at the end of this month. It's good and bad all at the same time. Probably an over all good thing.

We had plan to continue speech theripy for Anna, but we found out our co-pay will be $200-$300 a month! I don't know what the plan is now. Prayer, I guess. ;-) Not that we wern't praying in the first place... but I guess now we have to pray about weither we want to pay that kind of fee. :-P

Anna is starting to attempt to read. She is mimicing me while I am reading. I am still working on indevidual sounds, so I don't know, that she needs to see the theripist. Maybe I just need a little bit of training from a speech theripist than I can take over... I don't know. :-)

Anyhow, all the kids but one are napping.

George is needing a nap every day while changing his meds. Hopefully, it wont stay that way after he is on the new med for a while. He is complaining about ringing in his ears on occation and he still gets small headaches about an hour before its time to take his meds, but they are no longer all the time.

Oh, guess what I am doing???? I am teaching my neighbor to drive. Yap! That's me the driving instructor. :-) It's a long personal story that I wont go into, but she's a mom about my age, with no drivers license. I have been squeezing in a lesson whenever I can, but it's hard when bettween me and her, we have more kids then will fit in one car. :-) It's been a super fun thing to throw in to mix up our day and it gives her a chance to get out of the house.

They changed spencer's work schedule again. Thank you Lord, he still has Sunday's off. But he is morning the loss of his Sat. with the kids. :-(

He is now working a split shift with 4 hours in the middle :-P but that is supose to change to 2 hours in the middle. Hopefully.

Umm... well, I can't think of much more at this moment, I really just got on with the intention of posting that cool website I found.

Hope all is well with you guys! ~H

Ps. Oh, I found one more, I just had to come back and add... This site you type in what you want and the site makes a sheet of trace work out of the words you typed. Tooo cool! http://www.handwritingworksheets.com/

Oh

Oh, our trip has continued to be an adventure. We got the hospital, and they had never heard of George,... Didn't have the appointment, didn't have his paperwork. etc.... :-P Anyhow, LONG story I am not up for. We got him the EEG.

Here are a few shots on my way to bed.

Love all.