I suppose I should post at least one more time before March is gone! (Thank God, by the way!) ;)

I always hate March, it's such a long work month with no long weekends or vacations. (I know...I shouldn't complain! Most people don't get as much time off as I do) :)

However, not much to report other than the cold that is currently torturing us! Luke and I started to get this at the beginning of last week, and Luke got over it in 2 days! Needless to say, I am STILL fighting with it and now Sammy is sick too. Poor guy, I stayed home with him yesterday and he didn't seem too bad. This morning he woke up with a nasty dry seal bark of a cough. :( So we are nebulizing away and hoping that this passes without incident. We have been SO healthy and lucky this winter with hardly any illness at all...actually none... that I guess I can't complain that we have this one cold....My father in law is watching Sammy for us today as I have state testing with my kids today and Brian has an inspection at work...the rigors of being the boss! ;)

Looking forward to April vacation...my sister is coming again that week because her big 4-0 is that week! Can't wait! We have some fun girly stuff planned with the sisters. (for me, sans kids) :)

Just gotta get through the next 2 1/2 weeks! ;)

On a side note, March was National CP Awareness Month... gotta love my brave, strong, beautiful boy who is making me more proud by the moment! And love to Luke, who is the best big brother that a CP kid could ask for! :)

Student of the Month

So Sammy's principal nominated him to be the student of the month for his whole school for the month of March! Yah, Sammy! :) She wrote a very cool letter for him...very sweet! I even got a window cling for my car! LOL

I have pics I will post later at home...he had a whole school assembly to celebrate..everybody clapped and later everybody in the hall was giving him high fives! :) Awesome! :)

He was so proud of himself as so were we! (And Luke was chosen for his school back in December!) Those are my boys!!!! :)

YAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

So.......... YAH!!!!!!!!! :) Gotta share.... I emailed Sammy's teacher this morning to suggest him being included in a regular ed. kindergarten class for reading. (Mostly because I found out last week that he is doing a horrifically boring special ed reading program supplemented with a program that requires gross motor hand tapping that the 1:1 isn't even doing with Sammy. When I asked what he is doing @ that time, i was told, "Well, he's watching the other kids and seeing them do it!" WHAT?!!) Anywho.... the teacher I requested he be in with is best friends with my sister and loves Sammy, so she is going to include him in her class for Reading and she is super excited about it! I can't wait! I am thanking God for making someone so special in Sammy's life! :) I am so happy that he will be in with kids modeling appropriate behavior and being challenged with his reading skills!

Yah! :)

oh man, I'm such a slacker... ;)

Yeah, yeah...I'm a slacker.... So just a quick update...

We had a blast at our annual Oscars party on Sunday at my sister's house...ragging on the outfits and making fun of the horrible speeches while eating lots of great junk food, what could be more fun??? ;)

My boy went to Florida with my sisters and brother-in-law again this past school vacation week. He had a blast...coming from 20 degrees here in Massachusetts, he was really enjoying the 82 degree weather and the non-stop fishing in the canal behind the house and on the boat. He caught some cool fish... :) I missed him but I am glad he gets to have the opportunity to get away with his aunts and uncle! They spoil him way too much! :) Isn't he all grown up now?? Makes me want to cry! My "baby" is starting high school next year! :(
Sammy and I spent the week playing and having therapy sessions and just sleeping later in the mornings! Didn't get to fatten him up much, he wasn't into eating much over vacay for some reason, but now that he's back to school , and still not eating well for them, he's ravenous when he comes home and I'm able to get a lot into him at a time... getting nervous that he looks like a Beafran (sp?) child with the ribs sticking out and all... poor kid... he's happy to be back at school, though... although he doesn't get up well in the morning even if he goes to bed on time... i think he got that from me! ;)

So, we also went to Shriners in Feb. again and are getting Sammy an Easy Stander (it's a hydraulic stander that he can sit in and it stands him up a bit at a time) and a wheeling toilet seat that goes over the toilet we have so he can start being more like a 6 yo. He is very excited about it, as we are. He can go on command and is starting to be dry some nights, so even though he can't tell us he has to go, we can put him on at times during the day to make him more independent. Shriners is so awesome, they don't question us, they just ask how they can help.... it was nice to be able to vent about his school feeding issues and other struggles with the OT there...she must have sat with us for like 40 minutes and just listened to us and gave us suggestions to try and things to say to the people at school. SHRINERS ROCKS!! Please support them when you can! :)