Summer Fun

I am excited for the summer. We are going to be doing science this summer and my kids are so excited about doing it!!!! I am also excited about doing it. I think that I am all ready for it!!!!! I love watching my kids get so excited about the little things in life.

Allison is having fun planning her 8th birthday and is getting her ears pierced as well!!! She is also going to roaring springs water park and having friends come over. She is so dang cute. I can not believe that she is getting baptized this summer that 8 years went by too fast. Where is the time going. I remember that just a few short years ago I thought that this day would never come and that my babies would stay small forever and now they are becoming such big kids. Like I said where has the time gone!!!!

Just plain tired today

Today I have been so tired. Why can I not go to bed at a decent hour. Well tonight I am going to go to bed early. Like right now.!!!!! We did have a good day. The kids have their last day of school tomorrow. I can not believe another year down. This is going by way to fast:( It is fun to watch them grow and develop and become more like their Father in Heaven, but why do they have to do so fast. A friend of mine just recently reminded me that it was in the Lords time and not my time. I just need to remind myself of that quite often. Good night world and I will see you in the morning!!!!!! Sleep Must have Sleep

Allison was just acceppted to the ALP class

I can not believe that My sweet Allison is doing great in class!!! She has all A's and loves to read she is always wanting to go to school and when she is home she teaches her brothers and sisters in her Classroom. Gives them stars and everything for good behavior and reads to them. They could sit and for hours let Allie instruct them. She will be in the Advanced Learning Placement Program in the district this next year. WE are so proud of her!!! She will do great in the program and excell even more in her academic career. I love her so much. She will be eight next month and I can not believe how fast that has gone. Wasn't it just yesterday that we were splashing in the puddles and making mud pies and swing on the swings and rocking on the rocking horse. Kids are so amazing I just want to spend every moment that I have with them before they are gone. She now loves to play tether ball read books (she is a book worm) play school with the kids. She is learning how to cook and is getting quiet well at it. She wants to be a teacher when she grows up and goes to college. She is a great saver of her money and has a goal to buy a wii. What a cute girl she is becoming. She is also the biggest helper a mommy could ever ask for. I love you Allison!!!!!

Joseph sings in the Talent Show

A few weeks ago Joseph came to me and said he was singing in the talent show!!!!I was a bit suprised because he is not a people person and seems to be shy. Well our children teach us something new everyday I guess. Well today was his talent show. He and 2 other boys sang the National Anthem "The Star Spangled Banner"!!! How cute he was and so brave he stood!!! I love you Joseph you are the best!!!!

Allison and the Tether ball

I would have to say that these girls are so cute!!!!!

What a beautiful little funny girl that I have here!!!

Allison has found a new sport that she loves!!!! She can not get enough of tether ball. So for her birthday we are getting her one. Her grandpa had a tether ball pole that David used when he was her age and is giving it to us. She is now using a pole that you hang flower planters on and has tied a rope to it and has a soft squeeze ball that she has made into a tether ball. What a cute little creative girl I have!!! She does not know that for her birthday she will be getting a real tether ball from us!!!! Oh the excitement that she has for life. I love this girl!!!!

Finally Pictures again

Well we had to get a new camera because I can not live with out taking pictures so many things that I have missed like Sammie turning 6 months Spencer loosing his first tooth and many cute times with the kids doing funny things. You never realize how much you use your camera until it does not work!!!

I am posting Pics of my garden that I have been working on this spring and am so excited for it to grow!!!!

I have done the square foot garden this year and love it so far.

Spencer lost his 1st and now 2nd Tooth AND MUCH MORE

Can I beleive it, no I can not, but it is true my new born infant of 5 years is loosing his teeth. Wait a minute didn't these teeth just grown in and we were ewing and awhing about them and how cute they were:) It is hard for me to think that my kids are growing up so fast before my eyes.

We had a great day today!!! I had a yard sale and made some head way on decluttering. I also Worked in my garden. I am so excited about gardening this year maybe because I am not pregnant and can bend over to pull weeds and can use the shovel. I also have worked in the back yard, making a fire pit so that we can have camp fires this summer and do fun things!!! I have been loving the warm weather and have been soaking up all this sun:)

Well I hope to have some Pictures of the kids soon. Our camera is broken, it was handled by curious children and now does not focus. Hence the yard sale money is towards a new camera!!! So on Monday or Tuesday we will have one again.

Stay tuned for my post of Joseph singing the Star Spangled Banner at the school talent show. I am a bit nervous for him because I am his mother and think that my little boy is so dang cute!!!!! He is not the type of kid to stand up in front of people and sing so this shocked me when he told me that he was going to do this:) I am proud of him for doing this!!!!

Poor Baby

My little girl Sammie is so miserable. She has an ear infection in her right ear and can not seem to get happy. I give her meds as often as I can and it helps to take the edge off but she is not herself yet. I hope that now we have some antibiotics in her that she will start to feel better soon. We went to the Race for the Cure and I had her in the wrap all morning which she loves so I thought that her sleeping was normal because that is what she does any time I put her in it she falls asleep. I got home and all she wanted to do is be held. Then latter that afternoon she started running a fever and got a terrible barking cough. So today she woke up and was miserable and pulling at her ears. I looked at her ears with the ear scope and sure enough it was red and bulging. Poor thing we went to quick care and got everything taken care of and waited at the store to get her meds, which by the way for me to go to the store on Sunday and walmart even was way weird for me because it is to be a quiet day and it is nothing by quiet there. Anyways we are home and she is sleeping now. Poor little girl I hope that she is on the mends now.

Our day bad and them ended up GOOD

So it has been on of those days where I feel like nothing has been accomplished:( I had an appointment this morning and had to leave by 9:45 am and my sitters kids got sick and she had to cancel so it was a scramble to find another one at 9:00am this morning. Thanks Lauren you are a life savor. Love you lots tell your mom thanks!!!! I took Joseph to the Neurologist and left feeling like the appointment was a waste of time. He basically said that I just needed to go to a better Psychiatric DR for Joseph one that has more training in Autism. As if we do not go to an Autism clinic with some of the best Dr.s in the State for this already. He highly recommended that we go to Dr Levaell. We have seen him already, and was not impressed with him. But at last we will try again. I strongly feel like Joseph does not have Autism and if he does it is not the whole cause of his behaviors. I have done research on Sensory Processing Disorder and he fits all these symptoms to a tee. I had no idea that that there was even something out there like this. Why do the Dr.s just assume that it is Autism and that there can not be anything else out there to explain it. Or are they the same thing but the Dr.s just want to give out drugs so they say nothing about SPD. Occupational Therapy is a way better route to go first before trying drugs right. I was talking to his OT at school and he has a sensory background and says that the drugs can cause a chemical imbalance and cause more behaviors on top of the other ones that were present due to SPD. What if I have done this to my baby, what a bad feeling I have. Although recently I went to the temple and was told that He would be healed and so I rely on my faith in Jesus Christ to bring comfort to my troubled soul. I hope and pray for answers to my questions and that I will be lead to the right Dr. Our next route is the Endocrinologist. Joseph has started going through Puberty already and I am wondering if this is to young or if it is right. So onto another Dr. we go!!! I feel sorry for Joseph and having to go to Dr after Dr. I know he is probably wondering why I worry about him so much and just want him to be a kid.

On a brighter note he did get to be a kid tonight. He was getting ready to go to the YMCA with is best friend his dad. When one of his friends called and wanted to come over to play. What someone wanted to play with Joseph, yes!!!!!!! As a mother it makes me feel great to know that there are kids out there that know how to interact with Joseph. He had fun at first he did not know what to do but soon they were all playing hide and seek!!!! Oh the good old days of childhood games. By the time it was time for everyone to go home nobody wanted to including Joseph he was having so much fun it was amazing to see.

Yet another reason I feel like Joseph does not have Autism. He can play with people and he wants to. He just has a hard time reading the social cues but once he knows how to them he does great and has a blast. We need more of this and more often so that the Drs and Therapist can see for them selves that he can do this. It just takes practice and when you have not practice when you are a little guy then it gets harder and harder the older you get. Also if you are at school and the kids pick on you and tease you all the time who wants to make friends? I would not want to. Anyways that is my story and I am sticking to it!!!!!

Spencer has his 1st lose tooth

Last night Spencer realized that his tooth was loose and started to freak out. When we finally found out that that is what was wrong we were re-leaved and explained to him that it was ok and the tooth fairy would soon be here to visit and leave something in place of his baby tooth. Then a new tooth would soon start to grow in. He is now letting us wiggle his tooth but it was not until this morning that he let us. He informed us that "I am now brave enough to let you wiggle my tooth mommy"

Oh I can not believe that my baby is now loosing teeth and getting ready to start school this fall. That was way to fast for me!!!!!

Sammie has her 1 st Tooth!!!!

With little fuss Sammie now has her 1st. tooth.

She also had her 6 month check up she is 14lbs 2 oz. She is 25 1/4 in tall and her head circumference is 16 in. She is pretty little for a 6 mon old of mine as all my children were 14 lbs at 4 months. Samantha is eating food and can actually swallow the food. She loves rice and any vegetable or fruit that we give her so far. She is sitting up and rolling over both ways now and loves to be vocal although she does not laugh or giggle yet. We try to get her to but she just does not like to or care to.