Tidbits

Some little tidbits that make our lives unique!

• My mom is almost finished with chemotherapy.  Only one more to go!  And her hair is beginning to grow back.  She has the softest little peach fuzz all over her head.
• The garbage men came to pick up our pile of Be the Church Day trash.  One of our other neighbors, who couldn't help on Sunday, sat outside for over two hours keeping watch for the garbage men to ensure our piles would be picked up.  When they said that we had piled it the wrong direction (up the driveway rather than down the street) he help me move the pile so they would get it on their second pass.  Some of those bags were very heavy and starting to rip.  And did I mention it rained yesterday??  He is amazing.  He's the one who cleaned up our yard after Hurricane Ike while we were still in the hospital after Justin's surgery.  We are so blessed!
• We have been trying to get in some extra speech therapy sessions and our amazing Miss Melissa got us in for two extra sessions over the next few weeks.
• We have been making doughnut bread pudding from all our extra doughnuts that our Doughnut Lady gives us.  We put them in a bag in the freezer until it's full and then we make up a batch.  When Travis told her what we've been doing she looked confused so this time when we made some we brought it to her.  She was so sweet and thankful so she gave us more doughnuts!  And kolaches!  My mom decided that we would never get ahead!
• We are reading the last of the Little House on the Prairie series (The First Four Years).  Travis loves them.  He always wants to read the "Laura and Mary" books.  The other night Randy turned on the video monitor and we listened to him saying all the names of the family:  "Pa...Ingalls....... Ma...Ingalls... Ca..rrie...Ingalls... Grace...Ingalls..."  We laughed!
• Justin just had his re-evaluation for speech therapy and without having scored it, Miss Sarah said that his receptive language was almost in range for his age!  She was really impressed.  I was just thinking about that the other night, that it really seems like Justin understands most everything we are saying.  And he will respond to the best of his ability.  We keep asking him how old he is and he puts up all his fingers on one hand because the finger isolation is too difficult for him.  But he really tries!  He lets us help him do his fingers right, and then he can't hold it so then he laughs!  Super cheesy!
• We are only a few short days from welcoming our new little nephew into the family!  Thatcher is due in 15 days and counting!
• We are getting another new family member this fall when my brother marries his girlfriend, Olivia.  We are excited to do some leaf peeping up in Pennsylvania for the October festivities.