Wow, I'm a slacker!

I think I may just be stopping this whole blog thing. I'm obviously not keeping up at all and I it's kinda hard to post pics and talk about our life when we have a little someone that can't be talked about or have photos posted ;)

I spent the first week of August in Atlanta at the National Thirty-One Convention. I had so much fun! It was wonderful! Cindy Monroe, the founder of Thirty-One it such a sweet, amazing person and her husband is hysterical! His praise band played for us often, the worship was great, truly enjoyed it so much! It was very nice to get away for a little bit, especially right before school was starting back up! Unfortunately my phone got ruined by a rainstorm and I lost all of my pictures on my phone :( I hadn't backed up with iCloud in forever so all of my pics from Zoey's birthday party and the beach are gone :( All of the pics I took of Little Man in the hospital are gone :( those hurt the worst! I'm so crushed! I am getting a new phone case today when I head to Springfield, it's a must!!!

Jake's been playing baseball and has been pitching a tiny bit. He really loves it! I've had to miss several games due to the heat which has been a bummer! Last week I actually had to miss due to Addy being completely exhausted, we got there and she was a miserable little mess, poor girl! No naps are not fun for her!

We finished up our summer by going to our annual church pool party on Sunday night. I haven't taken Addy to the pool all summer, just couldn't with the little one. Addy doesn't love the water but once she got in we did have quite the time getting her out! The water was freezing and she was turning purple so that was a pretty good sign that she had to come out to warm up! She still can't regulate her body temperature very well and between the sweltering heat we've had and freezing water, she was a mess!

I soo wish I would have gotten video of Jake's dive/flip things he's doing off of the diving board, he's very good!! The Olympics were so fun to watch and those divers inspired him quite a bit!

The kids started school on Thursday. Both boys are in Junior High (6th and 8th grade) and Addy started kindergarten! They all had good first days and liked school.

 Jake likes his teachers and had no trouble changing classes all day. I knew he wouldn't but you always have to worry a little right??

Cooper is in his final year of Junior High. I truly cannot believe that! These years are always a little tough and having an Autism Spectrum Disorder doesn't help that at all :( Fortunately he is a happy kid and hanging with his brother in the mornings before class starts :)

Addy was EXHAUSTED!!! Those hallways are very long for those tiny little legs that move at about the pace of a turtle!

We are working on some transportation logistics right now :) Her kindergarten classroom is the room farthest away from the bathroom with a changing table in it lol. So we are looking at changing her elsewhere ;) I told them to utilize the wagon for bathroom for Friday and I'm sure that helped! Addy would prefer being carried but not really appropriate for kindergarten ;) I admit I completely and totally carried her from her classroom after school yesterday, she is so worn out! I'm sure next week we will be looking at either an after school nap or a very early bedtime! I am so happy with her placement this year, we are truly blessed. Addy is fully included in kindergarten (as much as you can be with therapies!) with 150 minutes per week of speech/language therapy, 90mpw of PT, 60mpw OT, 30mpw of adaptive PE and 150 minutes per week with services in the special education classroom. Her schedule is looking fantastic, we are so pleased! Her teachers are wonderful! You know when someone truly cares about your child and Addy has been blessed with Mrs. O for her kindergarten teacher, what a gem she is! She happens to have a brother-in-law with Down syndrome :)

Mrs. Andrews is her special education teacher, and this is her first year with a classroom, but let me tell you, this girl is going to rock this! She has been given quite a caseload and she is doing everything she can for each and every child, she is a true blessing to these children!

Scott and I celebrated 16 years of marriage yesterday :) What did we do to celebrate? We took 4 of our 5 children on a date with us and we wouldn't have it any other way!