PA! PA! PA! (and other things)

Pre Approval for Little Miss Maddox Ren Drafts! It arrived today and we are more than excited to know that we are well on our way to our little girl who awaits us in China! Now, we wait again. This time we are waiting for a document called the Letter of Acceptance and it will take somewhere in the neighborhood of two months to arrive. Let the countdown begin.....

Backing up a bit, we arrived home late last Sunday evening from our Florida trip but that did not stop us! We suited up, accomplished some academic priorities, and began our week with piano, drum lessons and boyscouts. That was Monday. Tuesday came, we had speech for MK, then it was off to co-op where MK's class took a field trip to a local fire station, ballet class - she loves this and comes home every week speaking a new French dance term and dancing around our house - and baseball.

Our co-op preschoolers

Wednesday arrived and we were very excited to, again, do some academic priorities first and then it was off to a local farm to explore with fellow homeschooling friends. There were animals of all sorts, a hayride, pumpkin decorating, a big pillow for jumping and these really cool, big slides. Poor Pryce, who rarely complains about not feeling well, even when he really doesn't feel well, was miserable. Not long after our arrival, he came to me and said he just wanted to lay down or go home - he was feeling so tired. I knew something was definitely not right because we were at a place that I knew he would take full advantage of to have fun AND all of his best buddies were with him. We ended up at the doctor that afternoon and began taking meds that evening. The good news is that his arm, which still looks questionable after his wrestling with the trailer, was examined again and it is continuing to heal.

This is the response I got when I suggested we take a family shot!

Thursday, with a fever free Pryce, we headed over for yet another field trip. This time, a local airport. The children were all taken with the private aircrafts they were invited to explore, and they were elated to learn that one can take flying lessons at the age of 12! Notice I state that "they" were elated, their mother, not so much :)

Friday proved to be a day of rest for the most part. MK and I attended her IEP meeting and we are pleased to announce that she still qualifies for speech services through our local school system. She does continue to speak well and the therapist was quick to note that she "is barely squeaking in" but we will take it! Her challenges lie mostly with her wanting to speak quickly - we have to remind her to S-L-O-W down and put the ending sound on all of her words, not just some of them.