Has this happened to you?

So have you ever had one of those moments were you are just going on with your everyday life - trying to get lunches together for kids, everyone dressed, diaper changed, etc... And your hubby says something about being a mom and it totally just hits you - 'I am a mom! A mother!' How completely sureal! So many of my days are just functioning the best I can to take care of our lives and all of our needs and commitments - that I am not sure I truly think about the fact that I am a mother and that these two children depend on me so completely and love me so unconditionally. It is truly overwhelming but completely cool!!! I love this life!!

Best wishes and love to everyone! I promise to post some new pictures soon!

kelly

ps - please keep my girlfriend Michelle's hubby Mike in your prayers. He was in a very bad car accident yesterday and is in the hospital waiting out a spleen injury that hopefully wil take care of itself and he will be going home tomorrow. So if you could just add him to your prayers I would truly appreciate it. Thanks so much!

37 years

Happy Birthday to me! Okay so it is my birthday and even though my dad says I can cut 10 years off my age I will say that I am 37 years old today. And I look at my hubby, my kids, my family and my friends and I would like to say that I am very happy with where I am in these 37 years of life! Thanks to you all for all your love and support! I love you! Still doesn't mean that anyone can call me old okay!!!!

Now onto the reason why I have not written in a while.... We have been to Disney World!!!! We just got back last night and had a glorious time! This was Logan's 2nd trip and Lexi's 1st time! So it was so much fun to see their faces and their wonder at all that was around. It was so sweet cause tonight I was helping Logan work on a journal that he needed to have for school since he missed a week and I was trying to give him some prompts and I asked him 'What he learned there". And his response to me was 'that dreams come true'!! I think I could have cried!!! This was based off of the stage show that we saw in front of the castle one day but it was oh so true!!!!! Disney is definately the most magical place on earth!!

I will have to give you more info in the days to come but I just wanted to drop a note to say we were back and show a couple pictures.

Have a magical day and I will post more later!

And to Shaye: (sung) It's my birthday where's my present... It's my birthday where's my present. To everyone else - it is an old joke we had in high school - not me being greedy! I promise! ;)

Our Adventure

Here it is at 1 a.m. and I can't sleep so I have been checking out some blogs and decided to add to my blog. Lexi and I had a big day today - that I think has me all hyped up and why I am not asleep like I should be.

As you may know, Lexi has had a speech delay and has been receiving speech therapy for many months now. Today we had our second appt at Children's Hospital to have Lexi evaluated for Verbal Apraxia. She has now been officially diagnosed with this 'condition'. What it means for us is just validation that she will be needing intense therapy for awhile to come - actually for many years.

There are several consinants that she doesn't even say and when she does talk it kind of sounds like she is mumbling. She does fairly well at mimicing you when you ask her to say a word but when she uses that word on her own she has a hard time sequencing these words together and correctly as if she has not 'learned' the real way.

Don't get me wrong... the girl talks ALL the time - we just don't really understand her much! Luckily she has the greatest personality and so has not started getting upset very often when her communication isn't going well. The therapist today says that she sees alot of wonderful things in Lexi that she is really encouraged about that will help her and us in this journey and hopefully make it quicker and easier. Including that attitude and stubborn streak - see - it is going to pay off!!! Remind me that whenever she is making me want to bang my head into the wall!!!

So that is enough for now just to update you on our day and our journey - please keep her in your thoughts and prayers - that she can keep this beautiful personality and spirit throughout this learning adventure and be able to communicate to everyone what this girl wants!!!

SIX!!!

Can you believe that my little boy turned 6 years old last week??!!! I am a little late at posting pictures but I wanted to share with you all my little man!

I can not believe that 6 years ago the answer to Todd and I's dreams came into this world. When I had difficulty getting pregnant - there was a time that I was concerned that we were not going to get to share our lives with a little angel of our own. But as always - God took care of us and blessed us with the most beautiful little boy. It has been amazing watching him grow up each day and seeing the little person that he is becoming. It seems like he is going to be SO much like his father. And since I am in love with his father that just is not a bad thing!

I have had a couple meetings with Logan's Kindergarten teacher and she has told me "He is one of my smart ones" and "He is just so sweet and adorable that he is one of the ones that I would love to take home with me." She can't even invision him causing any problems at all! (You can tell she doesn't have any children ;) And these are moments that make me realize that he is just a wonderful little boy with an amazing personality. I hope I can be accountable for some of that but no matter - I love him for who he is!! And I can not wait to keep seeing him grow into who he is going to become!!

Just not TOO fast!!! I do really miss my baby!!!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday my Little Angel!

The Little Things

Just a few of the little things that I love about the kids


* Lexi's amazingly large eyes
* Logan's beautiful blue eyes
* The budding artists they are becoming
* Dora piloting the Millenium Falcon
* How Lexi hugs Logan so hard her eyes close
* Logans engineering brain and his Lego creations
* Lexi 'having' to wear her princess shoes to run errands
* Hugs from my 'babies'
* Their infectious laughs

I just had to capture them! And when I saw this new paper - I knew this was the perfect choice.

Have a great weekend and be sure to enjoy the little things in life! Especially the ones with two legs!

One week down - ? to go

So we have finished our first week of school and Logan is still happy about going everyday. Over the weekend he kept telling us and even 'Poppy' (my dad) that he had homework to do! We heard him say this at least 10 times!!! And I re-read his note from the teacher and all I could get was practice writing and read to them everyday. So I guess this was to be our homework? So we have started taking on a more formal responsibility of practicing our letters every day according to the Denelian style (by the way - where did this come from???). And of course we always read everyday so I guess we are doing well on our homework so far! Hey this may be easy after all!! hee-hee.

And in case you are wondering... we STILL do not get much info out of him after school. All we know from yesterday is that they danced in the gym and said the Pledge of Alligence! Hmmm.... His friend Tristen came over after getting off the bus yesterday - but before we would let them in the house - his mom and I tried to grill them about what they did - and STILL that was all we learned!!!

So tonight is the next phase of kids school - I get to go meet Lexi's pre-school teacher. I am excited because it looks like she is going to have one of Logan's old teachers and he absolutely loved her!!! So it should be a good year. Now if only we could get this communication thing with Lexi down!!! ;(

Hope you all have a great day and be sure to post a note saying 'hi!' I love knowing who has stopped by!

Time to let go - a little

Well - today was the day! Like so many others - I watched my little boy head off to school. His first day of real school ever! The beginning of a lifetime of learning! Wow! I am not sure it has hit him yet that this is an everyday thing just yet (heck - I don't know that it has truly hit me yet).

So I took he and Lexi to McD's for a first day of school lunch and then headed home to wait for the bus. The neighbor boy, Tristen, who we found out was in his class, came over 20 minutes early cause he was so excited to go to school with Logan. Logan was ready to get going and get his day started! Todd came home for lunch so he, Lexi, Logan & I and Tristen, his mom and dad - all stood at the corner waiting for the bus and we all got excited when we saw it coming. Then the boys climbed up on the bus and so nicely paused for us to take photos of them as they were climbing on (Tristen's mom is a scrapbooker also). They were the first ones on a took a seat together three rows back. I talked alittle to the bus driver and then asked if I could climb on and take a photo. WOW! It really strikes you when you see that they are barely even tall enough to have their eyes over the top of the seat in front of them! And he is going to school? Unbelieveable!



After saying goodbye (more about that at the end) - Lexi and I decided to race to the school to see Logan get off the bus and get a picture of him walking into the school for the first time. Logan saw us and waved and then just headed on in for his day! We obviously were not a distraction for him! I guess that is a good thing...


So along comes 4 o'clock and time to go wait at the corner again for him to get off the bus. In the afternoon they have all the elementary kids (not just Kindergarten) so the bus was full. Logan & Tristen were in the first seat and the first off. So I took a photo (of course) and then hugged Logan and asked if he had a good day and he says "I had fun riding the bus!". So do you think this a sign of things to come?

So then I started asking him about his whole day and this is about our conversation:
- what did you do at school?
- Do you want to know what I had for an afternoon snack?
- of course what did you have?
- well they had hamburgers but I said I didn't want one of those so I had carrots and peaches. And we have a block that we have to put in this little box each day to say what kind of drink we want. There is orange juice, chocolate milk, just milk, and green for bringing drink. I had Orange juice!
- okay, so what else did you do today?
- my shoes came untied 2 times so I had that other teacher tie them the first time and then I had Ms. Kennet tie them the next time.
- That's great, what else?
- well we talked some.
- did you play or draw or go to gym or anything?
- I don't know.

Thus ended our conversation! What a plethora of information he is!! (Mom and Dad - does that conversation remind you of someone?) When Todd got home we did manage to get a little more info out of him like he has to say "no thank you" if he doesn't want a certain food item and that the teacher read a book about names. Wow!! It is amazing how little can get done in 3 hours!! hee-hee

But he says he had fun and he seems excited about tomorrow so I guess that is the best thing possible! It is unbelievable that my little boy is in school but I did very good and did not get too emotional. Now most of that was because I was in pain!! (here is the rest of the story) So as I was climbing off the bus and talking to the bus driver, on the last step I stepped on the side of my ankle and fell HARD on my butt in the road and threw the camera in a patch of grass. So my emotions were dampered by the xtreme pain in my ankle and the major embarrasment I was suffering. The only thankful thing was that Tristen's dad did not get me on his videotape!!! So I missed out on knowing what direction my emotions would have gone. Maybe that is a good thing??????

Just wanted to let you all know how his day went and hope everyone else's school experiences were fun (and not painful). Have a great week! We will keep our fingers crossed that Logan's enthusiasm stays up!