Spring Break Update

We really enjoyed our visit "home" earlier in the week. Our little gal got to see her best friend for a little while on Monday and I got a couple of cute pictures of them outside. They are so fun to watch together! Since their birthdays are only a couple days apart there was talk of maybe doing a party together for them this summer. That would be great!

We really didn't do even as much of the little bit of school that I wanted to this week but we did do a very little bit. Our big guy had such allergy problems that he has not been able to go outside since we got back home. He is taking medicine for it but this is by far the worst he has ever had them. Today I had him return to his letting the dog out chore to test it a little and after that and a quick trip to the library he is again a sniffy, swollen and red-eyed boy. If you know anything about him, you know he is all about being outside so this has not been a pleasant week for him. Hopefully, things will calm down by next week and he'll be able to a little. He searched for a couple books today at the library and after we got home he disappeared. I found him on our bed reading! He read all of one his books. That was probably the best part of school he could have done this week! I am so glad he is becoming more interested in books.

And moving on to our other sickly one...little guy's developed a nasty cough over the last couple days. We had to start breathing treatments again yesterday and he is really becoming more aware of what is going on with them. He told me that his body wouldn't stop shaking (jitters) after we did one. Maybe he will be able to tell us how he is feeling more now so we can treat him better. After going from June to January without one single breathing treatment and cutting out almost all his meds I was hoping he had grown out of his asthma. He's still doing so much better than he has in the past. He was so wired last night that he was on our bed talking to daddy-nonstop-until it got suddenly quiet. He just crashed with his head laying on daddy's shoulder. That was almost midnight! 

I just had to share this picture. You probably can't tell but I was SO impressed with his coloring. He has shown absolutely no interest in trying to stay in the lines even after much encouragment. Most of the time he asks if he can circle instead of coloring pictures because he just does not like to color. When I gave him his sheets this day we didn't have the crayons upstairs so I gave him the colored pencils to use. I don't know if that made a difference or not but he did a great job on the first side and we all gave him lots of encouragment and he did well at staying in the lines on the back side as well. Now I know what the little guy can really do! I have a feeling he is going to give us lots of surprises along the way in our schooling. One of his MDO teachers a couple years ago told me he was a little jokester and she could never tell what he really knew. Oh boy!!

I also am leaning again towards doing at least some school during the summer. We just function better with a schedule and structure!! Anyways, I'm off to finish up and serve supper...baked bbq chicken, creamed corn, and green beans!