In the new house, BABY! It's great..still unpacking, but things are pretty well set up... Toby (our dog) and Mellow (my poo-poo kitty) are back living with us again. My poor parents have their own lives back after fostering for us for 3 years! :)

Luke is loving having the dog back and being able to have time with his friends before school starts. :) Getting up earlier this year since the bus will be arriving earlier to get him this year, and now he has a long driveway to walk down! Poor Luke ;)

I have started school myself. Professional development crap right now and then Tuesday the kids start with a half day. We start with full days after that and then we have Labor Day off and then back to the official school day! ugh!

Sammy likes his new room, toby does too for some reason.... He goes in there with me whenever I go to change Sam. Too funny!

Brian is now officially a stay-at-home-dad! He is laid off anyway, so he is staying with Sammy all day while I bring home the bacon!! LOL :) He is loving the nap everyday!! ;)

Cape Cod here we come :)

Going to Cape Cod with the sisters and the boys tomorrow!!! Yippee!! :)

trip to Boston

We went to Boston Children's Hospital today for Sam's assessment for a communication device. It went great! He started trying out a series of pictures to make choices like he has now, but a little more advanced with more complex choices, and then the SLP tried him with a "high-tech" device that looked like a thin computer monitor and it had pictures of things like toys and music, etc. and it uses eye gaze to see the choices Sam is making. He has his eye gaze calibrated to the computer and then it can read where he's looking. He has to look at a pic for a certain amount of time and then it highlights it and says the word out loud. It can go from category to category when he makes choices, so he can choose, say, the song category and then it brings him to a page that lets him choose what song and then whether he wants to sing it or watch the song play in video form. it's SO cool and Sammy started using this without us really explaining how to. We have pay to trial it with a SLP recording his progress in order to get ins. to pay for us to actually get one. They are very expensive to rent by the month, but the hospital has a cheaper loan program we can use, which is great. Our new ins. sucks big time....if anybody out there is looking at getting Unicare...do not do it!! They SUCK!! So we'll have to see what happens...we may be maxed out with getting his new gait trainer... we'll see....

Either way, the SLP at the hospital was so encouraged at how great he did today with the device that she said she was impressed and can absolutely see him using it. He loved it too! My big smart boy! God has blessed me with two beautiful, smart and sweet kids and I am thankful everyday for it! God is good! :)