May - June and now July!

Hello All!

I wish I had some pictures to plug in at the moment but I will have to add those later. I thought it would be much more important to add some updated notes. So much has happened since the beginning of May. First of which we had Mollie's IEP meeting with Metro. IEP stands for Individual Education Plan. This is Mollie's plan of "education attack" for the next three years.

I am proud to say after much hard work and lots of paperwork! Mollie will be attending the Mama Lere school through Metro. She will be receiving a free and very valued education through Metro and Mama Lere. She will attend school 5 days a week from 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. This is very sad to me though as I am not ready to send her off to school full time at the age of 3 years. However it is very necessary for her to move forward with her hearing and speech if she is to overcome her delay. She will also be able to have the bus come to our house and pick her up for school and bring her home from school. This is huge! I was so wondering how I could be in 3 places at one time in the morning. That was getting Madie off to her school bus by 7:10 a.m. Mollie to school downtown by 8:30 a.m. and Nate to his school at 9:00 a.m. The logistics were crazy. However someone did mention that she could potentially qualify for the bus to pick her up and I went full throttle for this option. Only after I spoke with a Mom who put her 3 yr. old hearing impaired child on the bus to go to school. This Mom assured me that Mollie would like it and would be well taken care of. So here's hoping for August 11th.

Mollie is attending the Mama Lere camp this summer for the month of July. She has a new teacher Ms. Katie and we think we will really like her... as much as we have Ms. Emily and Ms. Angela. Speaking of Ms. Angela she is off to have her baby and we will forever miss her and her support and education for Mollie. We are also very blessed at the same time to have Ms. Emily move on to be Mollie's therapist and continue to be support on Mollie's journey. She knows Mollie and she will make Mollie work!

Second thing that happened in May, June, now July is that Mollie and Nate turned "3".
We had a small home party this year and got them each a big present. Mollie got a big girl "princess bike" and Nate got a basketball hoop. Both I would like to say are in good use. They also have been potty trained! Yep - Mollie can say "potty potty potty" with quit an urgency when she has to go. So operation P & P (you get the jist) was successful I must say. Not without a lot of Dum Dum's consumed and stickers galore - but we made it!

Finally - we had our very first family vacation since the twins were born. We drove to Destin Beach, Florida. Yes, we drove and thank goodness for hotels along the way and DVD players. But the kids did great! We made memories together and we are looking forward to many more trips to the beach. The kids loved the water, the sand the pool and having Mom and Dad 24/7.

Will update more as we move forward towards the school year.