Sunday our community was struck by tragedy. A beautiful, precious little boy, only 16 months old, died while eating a french fry during dinner with his family. His two siblings, ages 9 and 6 years watched as their mother, neighbors, and emergency workers tried to save the life of this baby boy. This wasn't just any little boy, this was our neighbor, someone we interacted with periodically, someone we talked with at the park, someone we swam with in our pool, someone we knew. So very sad. Please pray for the Lister family.

Monday began with a bang - Colin went in for his first of many dermatologist appointments. Thankfully, he has "healthy" moles. However, he has A LOT of moles so he will be seen each year to keep a watchful eye on those pesky dots.

Early Tuesday morning, Maddox was evaluated by our local school system to see if she will qualify for services during the next school year. Currently, we receive state assisted speech services (as well as two more times per week privately) and physical therapy for one hour each week. Verbally, the county stated she will qualify for speech services next year. The evaluators were taken by her charm. She really is cute. Too cute sometimes. This is the only day, in either of my girls' lives, where I have prayed for failure! They did capitalize on the fact that Maddox has a large vocabulary, she wants to talk and she wants to be understood....and they assured me that one day this will happen. So, short story, looks like next year we will be on board for services through our county as well as intensive private speech therapy with our current therapist.

Following our eval, Maddox came home and said her name for the very first time. And then proceeded to say, "Mommy, up high? Down low? Too slow!".....she is quite the trickster :) In other Maddox news, the potty training is moving up on my scale of success. We are at 85%. And dry at night. Every night. Amazing.

Pryce successfully finished up his first week of baseball. He has played well at first base, third base, short stop and left field. Golf continues to fair well with both boys. Pryce and MK are well into their tennis season. Two more weeks of school. Two more weeks of co-op. A few more weeks of ballet. A few more weeks of pre-k - then graduation, oh my! Two more weeks of Latin. One more week of IEW....and so goes it.....