Oh my goodness. There was so much going on this past month. We started with a wedding, then we had the school's Mother's Day breakfast (hosted at my house for space reasons) then actual Mother's Day. There was Bring Your Pet to School day immediately followed by Eden's cardio appointment in Plano and then Miss Saigon in Dallas. Then was the Father's Day breakfast at the school, the school talent show at Beltway North, and Kindergarten graduation and awards ceremony at the Alliance for Women and Children, plus I've been keeping some extra boys this week and I AM TIRED.
I cooked for the MDO one week and two days later cooked for my mom's Christ Care group. I took a tour of the second MDO the girls will be at this summer. We had our standing game night and played a new game and made waffles and bacon that we forgot about. (I found it in the oven this morning and we made it Saturday...oops).
I think I'm taking the next few days "off" as much as I can.
Next week is CALF and I'm already exhausted just thinking about it. Herding our group through crowds for two days is stressful and fills me with anxiety. And the kids really don't seem to care. I'm starting to debate even doing it in future years. (I'm in a down mood currently, so that could all change. Maybe this year will be so amazing I'll wonder why I ever thought that.)
Eden's cardio appointment went as well as usual. We were given a questionnaire to see how she's developing, a standard thing they do with cardio patients when they're 4. She tested normal in everything but gross motor skills and Personal/Social, where she shows some delays. I agree with the gross, because she couldn't do the things in the questionnaire, but the social....like, anyone who's met her looks at me like I'm crazy.
Anyway, she has another doctor's appointment with a psychologist in Dallas in mid-June.
Because this girl needs a sixth doctor. Good lord, she's a full time job by herself.
It'll be a 3-4 hour long appointment and starts at 830, so I get to have another hotel stay with Eden. Woo. The purpose is to have the doctor really assess her in person and give us guidance on how to help her catch up and make sure she's ready for school. She can read a little and she's already writing her name fairly well, so I think intellectually, she's pretty ready for Pre-K, but her ability to obey and sit still are still at the level of a 4 yo. I worry about Pre-K vs MDO because they are pretty different. And if we send her to Pre-K, I'll have 2 drop offs and 3 pick ups twice a week and 1 and 2 three times a week. I'm not interested in becoming a taxi service, so that's actually a huge factor in what we do with her. Plus, only having a few hours a week to do doctor's appointments and whatever else I need to do without kids is really difficult. Granted, Rebekah is so easy going, taking her along by herself wouldn't be a huge deal. But I couldn't take her to a hair appointment or really to a doctor's appointment.
I say Rebekah is easy- going, but she's starting to develop some real PERSONALITY. She LOVES 'mingos, and insists on wearing her mingo dress whenever she can. She cried when I put it in the laundry after she'd worn it for about a week straight. She's got a toddler bed now and I couldn't find mingo sheets and blankets, but I found rainbows and unicorns and flowers, so that's pretty good. She puts herself down for naps a couple times a day and that is the best thing in my life at the moment. Bedtime is a different story.
Asher and Elijah finished school yesterday and had their awards ceremony. They both got awards for diligence and Asher was given an award for following written instructions (not a given with a 2nd/3rd grader) and was on the A honor roll all year! None of us realized this. The report cards have a mix of letter grades, checks, and numbers, so its a little tricky to understand sometimes. He was surprised, too. Especially since the last semester he's been doing 3rd grade work instead of 2nd.
Elijah came home from school a while ago with a Brain Quest summer workbook for K-1 and Asher requested one as well, so I got it. Yesterday, about 3 hours after he got home from school and after he'd read a book I had saved until the end of school, he came and asked if he could do some learning. So he's got the workbook and is diligently working his way through it. I was hoping it would last all summer, but if he finishes it before too long, I'll ask if he wants the next level up workbook and have him work through that. We'll have him in sixth grade by September! lol
There's not much to report about Elijah. He's just plugging along, doing his thing. He's still got his anger outbursts occasionally, but it feels like they're farther apart now. At TLCA, the teachers and principal told us there's something magical about the summer between Kindergarten and 1st grade because they come back so different. So I'm hoping for that for him. Let him grow up a little more this summer, but not too much. He's a sweet kid 99% of the time and so enthusiastic about his favorite things. Asher is so much a little adult I sometimes forget that Elijah isn't and find myself adjusting my approach to him mid-sentence. He got a Math award at school yesterday, which I caught a glimpse of and thought it said Mario and figured "yeah, that makes sense."
The boys were blessed at the awards ceremony and Elijah was blessed with continued diligence and Asher with the ability to find answers in scripture. Something like that. She talked about how scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching.
Overall, all is well. We're healthy, we're happy, we're busy. So busy. But hopefully, the summer will slow things down for the most part. I think there's only one week where everyone has something, so that will be fun. Today, it's a day of being lazy and zoning out in front of screens. Let their minds rot a little bit.
Except for Asher who's probably halfway through his workbook.
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