Em has to patch 5-6 hours a day now. I set my alarm to remind me and still I forget on some days! It is hard because I don't want to do it when she is outside and could get hurt by missing something. Her weak eye sees 20/80 when her glasses are ON, so when she is running and only has the use of that one eye, I get nervous. Try just once to run with one of your eyes and then squint that one eye and still you will only have a glimpse of what I am talking about. It's always hard to balance this stuff.
K is into signs these days. She puts up signs for everything. These are the rules on the front door right now - they have intimidated some people into not crossing the threshold. :-)
Ah, the trees. We planted eight and ran out of space so have put two in pots for now.
Emily lost her first tooth!! It is the crooked one on the bottom (from her feeding tube)...we lose one more reminder of her early life. I love the symbolism and hope it continues.
I told her we had to put her tooth under her pillow so she could get money from the tooth fairy. K promptly reminded me that the tooth fairy is not real. I asked her if we could just pretend and she agreed. Well, by the time we were done telling Em about the tooth fairy, she was too scared to go into her bedroom - even in the middle of the day. We had to clarify that Mom was the tooth fairy and no one was coming in her room except Mommy. Then she was willing to pretend with us.
This day was Emily doing her best to be Truly from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
If you recall, K started her garden in the pots earlier this month. Today was the day we moved them outside and into the soil.
Emily being an airplane pilot...
Emily got her new glasses today!!! She looks very different but she already seems to understand the bifocal idea. She says the top is for TV and the bottom is for books and reading. She is very excited that the letters looked so much bigger but that still didn't mean she wanted to sit down and DO her reading. :-)
K decided they should make mail boxes, so they hung them in the hallway, hoping they will get mail soon.
Well, we are doing well. Post M's vacation time, we have gotten much more caught up on projects, at least enough to feel like we can breathe. It's getting harder to keep up with school because K is "tired of all the hard work" but we are in the home stretch and I keep pushing. Just hope summer is long enough to want to start up again! :-)
It looks like I really need to homeschool Em. Her doctor says that her eyes are in a constant state of refocusing. In a school environment, she is constantly looking up and down and all over and working so hard to see things outside her field of vision (not wanting to miss what everyone else is seeing) that she expends all of her energy in a very short period of time. Even in three hours with zero academic expectations in preschool, she comes home exhausted and in tears. I can get her vision services at the school K is enrolled through, so I will need to do an inter-district transfer and take care of all that, but I am hoping I can stick with the program we are in for at least one more year. If I can reduce the stimulation of her environment and reduce the number of hours needed to concentrate, she have a much greater chance at success. I realize this is not likely to surprise anyone, but I was hoping not to home school for too terribly long. I have different plans. I guess it's time, once again, to see what God's plans for our lives are.
The ranch is going well. We are back up to full capacity for a little while and even have one lady talking about breeding her horse, so we might have a foal on our hands soon. We will see.
Giving our testimony again in church this Sunday reminded me once again of just how blessed we are and what miracles we have seen in our lives already. I am excited to see what else God has in store for us! I pray that you too can look with hope at the future, whatever it may bring. No matter what, there is joy in the morning, even when the night is long, morning still comes.
God Bless!
