So yesterday we took my parents back to the airport. It was a sad, sad ride. When Alana finally realized it was time to leave the house to head back to the airport she starting sobbing! She cried and cried as she hugged Grandma and Grandpa and told them "I will miss you so much!" And she continued to cry for several miles of the drive. Until finally I told her that I had had enough! She can get herself worked up into quite a tizzy! She is nearly inconsolable sometimes.
We had taken Adam to preschool that morning and Rob stayed home again so he could go pick him up and he wouldn't have to miss a day of school. He is doing so well, and is finally going in without crying his head off and clinging to me like I am leading him to a pack of hungry wolves.
He is actually now running in to sit on the carpet and look at a book as soon as the teachers open the door!! I am so proud of him! He seems to really be adjusting well. And we feel like he is already behaving better in other parts of his life as well.
Church has been a lot better too. He was having such issues in Primary and not doing well that we all decided that it would be better if I can just stay with him. So they are moving me from my CTR 7 class to the Sunbeam class to be Adam's official "buddy". This seems to be such a good solution. It was tearing me to pieces to sit back with my class and watch him struggle or to be struggling with him and trying to be attentive to 5 other kids. So the presidency is finding a replacement for my other teaching job and now I can focus on Adam. It seems to be so much better. For him and me. I have sat with him and attended class with him for the past two Sundays and the difference has been remarkable! He still will wander and explore a tiny bit, but for the most part he will stay right with me. And class has been fantastic. He really responds to his teachers and he seems to be getting the hang of it!
We had such a fun visit with my parents. It is fun to have an excuse to go do lots of touristy things. We went to the American History Museum, the Natural History Museum, Rob and Dad went to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, (mom and I did that on their last visit, but dad and rob were home with the bigger kids). We went to the zoo and Mt. Vernon, Arlington Cemetery, the Lincoln, Vietnam, WWII monuments, the international spy museum and a couple of other things that were a little more local and not so cool to mention. Like bowling and eating food from some of our favorite restaurants. All in all I think we went into the city about 6 times. It was so fun and so worth it!
So now that life is back to normal we will be doing school today after a fun "vacation" I must pay about a billion and a half bills after I update my checkbook and I have to fold about 3000 lbs of laundry. And of course back to the gym and I will be watching a little guy for a friend, so yea, pretty much just back to normal.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
My Parents are in town!
I have been a bad, bad blogger lately!! We have had our first snow this last week, a tiny skiff of just over an inch and they canceled school one day and had a delay start the next day. So my workouts were sidelined, because the Rec Center follows the school closings, and on the delay start day they cancel morning preschool, so after a teacher work day on Tuesday and the snow day on Thursday, Adam was missing a whole week of preschool, and with Inauguration day the week before, in the last two weeks he was only able to go to school once! (and they don't discount tuition for missed days!!! So I am more than a little irritated!)
On the snow day was Adam's speech evaluation, so I had arranged a babysitter for the other kids and made my way on slightly scary roads, only to find the whole school board complex with out a car in sight and all the gates closed and locked!! When they called to reschedule, they told me that they could not see him any sooner than February 20th!!!!!!! So after we had already waited a month for the speech evaluation appointment, the stupid snow that shouldn't even register as snow, cancelled our appointment!!! And we have to wait nearly another MONTH!! Hopefully our next and only snow for this year won't happen on the night of Feb 19!
So now on to other things!! My parents are in town!!! We picked them up on Tuesday the 3rd and they will be with us for two whole weeks!! We look forward to their visits so much! It has been a year since we saw them last. I am so grateful that they are willing to take the time and come on out to visit. Because flying with the kids is pretty much impossible these days.
The kids have been so excited for the visit. The girls, especially Avalon have been telling everyone they see, that "Grandma and Grandpa are coming to visit!!" It has been so fun seeing them get so excited to see their grandparents again. They love to go to the airport to pick them up. But the waiting is the hardest part.
The kids have been extra hyper, but now that they are a year older, they are more obedient when Grandpa says that he is "all done". Adam even remembers them. He has been so sweet giving them hugs and letting Grandma read to him and playing with Grandpa. I am a little surprised (and pleasantly so) that he remembers them so well and has just joined in the fun without missing a beat!!
We went into the city to the American history museum yesterday afternoon. And learned a hard lesson! A $100 lesson. Yeah, I got a parking ticket. I didn't realize that the street we were parked on had a parking ban during rush hour. And rush hour starts at 4:00PM, so at 4:10 I was issued a ticket. But I am actually really grateful that it was only $100, because as we were loading up the van a tow truck came to tow me away. Can you imagine 8 people stuck without a vehicle in February, and no way to get home! So the hundred is cheap compared having to pay for the tow and to get the car out of impound and a taxi ride to either home or the impound yard, where ever that is! So I'll take a big ticket over that hassle any day!!
But, the museum was really fun!! And we were able to see the original "star spangled banner" that hung over Fort McHenry during the war of 1812, talk about neat!! It was huge! Probably 40 feet by 50 feet. It was made out of wool and the white sections are very worn. The wool that had been dyed blue or red was in much better shape. It also had been cut in a few places where people took a star or another scrap of fabric as a memento.
So today after Adam's school, the plan is to head to the Natural History museum. They have a new oceanic room with a live coral reef and real salt water fish. So this will be a nice alternative to the aquarium where it costs $25 a person to get in!
It should be a fun day!!
On the snow day was Adam's speech evaluation, so I had arranged a babysitter for the other kids and made my way on slightly scary roads, only to find the whole school board complex with out a car in sight and all the gates closed and locked!! When they called to reschedule, they told me that they could not see him any sooner than February 20th!!!!!!! So after we had already waited a month for the speech evaluation appointment, the stupid snow that shouldn't even register as snow, cancelled our appointment!!! And we have to wait nearly another MONTH!! Hopefully our next and only snow for this year won't happen on the night of Feb 19!
So now on to other things!! My parents are in town!!! We picked them up on Tuesday the 3rd and they will be with us for two whole weeks!! We look forward to their visits so much! It has been a year since we saw them last. I am so grateful that they are willing to take the time and come on out to visit. Because flying with the kids is pretty much impossible these days.
The kids have been so excited for the visit. The girls, especially Avalon have been telling everyone they see, that "Grandma and Grandpa are coming to visit!!" It has been so fun seeing them get so excited to see their grandparents again. They love to go to the airport to pick them up. But the waiting is the hardest part.
The kids have been extra hyper, but now that they are a year older, they are more obedient when Grandpa says that he is "all done". Adam even remembers them. He has been so sweet giving them hugs and letting Grandma read to him and playing with Grandpa. I am a little surprised (and pleasantly so) that he remembers them so well and has just joined in the fun without missing a beat!!
We went into the city to the American history museum yesterday afternoon. And learned a hard lesson! A $100 lesson. Yeah, I got a parking ticket. I didn't realize that the street we were parked on had a parking ban during rush hour. And rush hour starts at 4:00PM, so at 4:10 I was issued a ticket. But I am actually really grateful that it was only $100, because as we were loading up the van a tow truck came to tow me away. Can you imagine 8 people stuck without a vehicle in February, and no way to get home! So the hundred is cheap compared having to pay for the tow and to get the car out of impound and a taxi ride to either home or the impound yard, where ever that is! So I'll take a big ticket over that hassle any day!!
But, the museum was really fun!! And we were able to see the original "star spangled banner" that hung over Fort McHenry during the war of 1812, talk about neat!! It was huge! Probably 40 feet by 50 feet. It was made out of wool and the white sections are very worn. The wool that had been dyed blue or red was in much better shape. It also had been cut in a few places where people took a star or another scrap of fabric as a memento.
So today after Adam's school, the plan is to head to the Natural History museum. They have a new oceanic room with a live coral reef and real salt water fish. So this will be a nice alternative to the aquarium where it costs $25 a person to get in!
It should be a fun day!!
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