Friday, September 26, 2008

No Training Wheels!

Kaden learned how to ride his bike this week Tuesday with no training wheels! As you can see....daddy got ALOT of exercise in the process! Jack had the day off and so I went to clean Marthas house by myself and by the time I got home, they were cruising up and down the street. It took us another 1 or 2 days to get him to turn without falling over, but he still can't stop or start by himself because his legs are just a little too short.

Kadens eye patch that he is SUPPOSED to wear for 2 hours a day for 2 months straight. I think the most we have accomplished so far is a half hour.

Kaden and Collin love to play in the puddle a few houses down from us that forms at the end of their driveway. This picture was taken after the rain from hurricane Ike stopped a few weekends ago.
Things are going well. Collin is finally getting over a sinus infection that lasted about 10 days. He was in alot of pain for a few days there. I wish I hadn't waited so long to take him to the Dr, but I thought it was the same allergies I have been dealing with for a few weeks now. I finally got a meeting with the ARD committee at the school about getting Kaden into preschool, but it is not until the 14th of October. I am really wanting to get him started because I need to get out of the house and get a part time job. I have been a stay at home mom for almost 5 years now and I want to get back out there and socialize with adults again! And a little extra money before Christmas would be nice too!
We are eagerly awaiting the arrival of Grandpa Russ and Grandma Gini here in a little over 3 weeks. They will stay with us for a few weeks. It's always nice to have visitors!
Kaden had an appointment yesterday at Childrens Hospital in Dallas with GI and they are working on getting him into an aggressive feeding therapy program here in Dallas. He will have an evaluation and from there they will decide if they want to do outpatient therapy or inpatient treatment to get him off of his g-tube dependency! Someday.....

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Glasses

We went and picked up Kadens glasses tonight. He looks so cute in them! I was not too sure how he would do with them because the prescription is so strong (+3 in the left eye and +4 in the right), but he put them on, said he could see fine. I thought for sure there would be some tripping, misjudging distances, etc., but he hopped on his bike and off he went. Hopefully we can get him to pass his vision test at the school now so we can get the ball rolling on getting him into preschool.





Painting

We did finally finish the painting of the stairway and gameroom. I borrowed a ladder from Martha to get to the top of the stairwell. Well, I got up there....and got right back down and waited for Jack to get home from work to do that part.






Fun with glow sticks





I just thought these pics came out really neat! The kids (Jack included) were playing with glow sticks, the small kind that you can link together to make necklaces, etc. I found them at the dollar store and got them for the boys for our trip back from Michigan to help entertain them in the car. They found the leftovers when we got home and opened them all at once!