The Sweet Things in Life: Pictures!

Daddy found the lost camera cord. It was, of all places, in the diaper bag. I guess it helps to clean that bugger out sometimes!

We had the meeting with Rylee's therapists on the 5th. It went awesome! Couldn't have asked for a better meeting. Currently, OT and PT each come once a month and Speech comes twice a month. NOW, OT will visit once in November and once in January to do her final evaluation. PT will come once in September, once in November and once in January to also do her final evaluation. Speech will continue to come twice a month until the end of January. January is when Rylee will turn 3 and is no longer eligible for the program. It's bittersweet really. We are going to definitely miss these ladies. They have played a huge huge role in our lives for the last 2 years. They are a big reason Rylee is doing so well now. Rylee is doing great!

Her new goals are:
PT: *Kick a ball *Catch a ball * Jump using both legs
OT *Do a 12 piece small knob puzzle *Draw 1 complete circle *Properly use scissors
Speech: *Identify objects by name *Use 2 words phrases *Able to answer WH questions

These are attainable goals. They are definitely things that we can incorporate into our everyday lives. After January 29, 12 Rylee will start going to school to receive her Speech therapy. As of right now, that looks to be it for future therapy. She will of course need to keep building her strength physically but we have big hopes in taking her to gymnastics to help with that. We also found out that she will most definitely be placed in school with her peers. That to me is huge! I never in my wildest dreams imagined that she would be with kids her same age. As long as she is prospering and evolving, that is where our goal to keep her would be but we don't have a problem holding her back to Weston's class if she needs it.

Rylee has also taken an adversion to solid foods. This is probably just a behavioral things. A normal 2 year thing but Rylee isn't the normal 2 year old. She doesn't have the normal 2 year old reserve of baby fat. SO, we're really not sure what to do now. She isn't eating and when she does, it's not much. I am just sick over it. She is literally withering right away from us. Her main focus is on her milk or liquids and that is quite a pity since there is no caloric intake in those. I guess maybe someone will call me tomorrow as a follow up from Friday? I am really not sure. FYI, She was 18 lbs on Friday, down 1 lb, 6 oz from July 18th.

Weston's actual birthday was rather uneventful. We had cake and sang him happy birthday. When daddy got home from work, he put the new 2 foot tall car toy thingy together and I'm pretty sure all 3 kids were glued to it the entire following day.

This weekend, me and the kids hung around home on Saturday while Kristopher worked. Once Daddy got home, Weston and I climbed in the van and headed to the New Glarus area for 1st birthday party #3 (we have 1 more this week and 1 next month). I had a great time visiting with my friends, Annie, Carolyn, Dana and Aaron while Weston played with his buddies, Jackson and Isaac C. He was exhaustedly asleep before we got out of the driveway to head home.

Today has been a "TLC the house" day. Daddy worked on cleaning the garage while I worked on laundry, dishes, cooking and getting ready for the start of another week. This kids were in and out all day, dragging in the flies with them.