Needing to Catch My Breath

It's a whirlwind right now! We got home from CO on Sunday late afternoon and I unpacked my suitcase and then repacked a smaller suitcase for my Vegas trip on Thursday. Monday morning we met up with Aunt Dana for some shopping, lunch, and went to meet baby Connor, who is a beautiful and sweet baby (Congrats Noynaerts!). Then we met up with Christie & Taylor who came to stay the night and visit before they move to St. Louis next week =-(. We all took the babies to speech, then we ran around town, then we went to dinner, then we put the babies down and us girls stayed up talking. Then I couldn't sleep so I caught up on the Olympics.

So this morning the kids played a while and then we all went to go register Adam & Andrew for Preschool, more on that in a minute. Then we picked up Subway and raced to the new house to meet up with the window guy to measure for blinds. Then we had to say goodbye to Christie and Taylor who were a super help today while we ran around. Then the boys and I raced to physical therapy. Then we canceled a trip to the Children's Museum because the boys were really grumpy by this point so we went home and they've been napping ever since.

Tomorrow we have biblestudy, another PT appt, then a Speech appt, and then playgroup (YAY!) and then Thursday I leave for Las Vegas!!!! I'm going with my mom, aunt, and cousin to celebrate my cousin's 21st birthday. This will be the first time I've left the boys for more than 2 nights, the first time I've left the state without them and the first time their father will have them all by himself for an extended period. Go Kenny! Fortunately for him, his family is coming to help over the weekend.

I'll be back on Monday and then Tuesday we close on our new house, WOOO HOOOO!!!! So much to do, I wish I had about 8 extra hours for each day so I wouldn't feel so crazy, but at least this is all a good crazy!

Back to the pre-school topic, I'm putting the boys in a church's School for Little People for 18-24 month olds. I've heard nothing but awseome things about their program. It's only in the morning and both boys will go on Wednesdays while I go to biblestudy and then just Adam will go Tuesday & Thursday mornings while I take Andrew to rehab. I'm really excited about this because I have a really hard time getting someone to watch Adam while I take Andrew to rehab and when I take him with us it's really distracting for Andrew and the session is not as effective and Adam gets really bored and frustrated. SO he will get to go have some fun and structure and socialization during this time. It's a win win for everyone really.

Another reason for preschool is that Andrew is going to start getting private occupational therapy for his fine motor skills, eating & sensory issues and so our rehab sessions will soon be twice as long making it even more difficult for Adam to tag along and that's just not fair for either of them. This was a hard decision to make, it just makes them seem even more grown up talking about school and meeting teachers and stuff but I really feel good about it.

So that's the update for the day on us. Hope you are having a great week and enjoying these last days of summer!