Saturday, December 15, 2012
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Z Santa Meet 12/12
floor
beam-the batteries died 1/2 way through the routine unfortunately
bars
Sunday, January 29, 2012
the last few months
I'm not sure how I got so far behind on my posts. At the present we do not have much internet service at home, which makes it challenging.
Zarah(gymnastics) and Truman(trampoline) are in the middle of their meet season. Both are doing real well. Zarah qualified to go to state her 1st meet, and has continued to do well. Her meet today she got 1st all around.
Truman got 3rd place at his very first meet. He should feel more comfortable as the season progresses.
Baylie is doing 2 musicals this year. Robin Hood was in the fall, and now she is in Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat. She enjoys her time to herself/with her friends.
Dan and Truman have their 1st loose tooth. we'll see who pulls it out first. Dan went for his neurodevelopmental evaluation this week. He did pretty well. They say he still has a few of his autistic type behaviors that they are going to work on. They expect him to progress quite well.
Addie had her birthday. She is walking and starting to say several words now. How does that happen so fast. It seems like she was just a tiny baby yesterday.
Jack had his 12th birthday. He is getting so big and maturing a bit. He has been into making origami things and things out of duct tape lately. He has also been a big help with our van when difficulties arrive. I am thankful for the talents God has given him.
Charlie and Daniella have been enjoying playing just dance on the wii they got for Christmas. It is funny to watch all of them down there dancing away. With Mario Carts Charlie seems to drive into the walls alot, but he enjoys trying.
I have several photos/videos I would like to download onto my blog, but no way to download them on right now. Hopefully later, i will be able to do that.
I guess that it all for now,
take care,
Vickie
Zarah(gymnastics) and Truman(trampoline) are in the middle of their meet season. Both are doing real well. Zarah qualified to go to state her 1st meet, and has continued to do well. Her meet today she got 1st all around.
Truman got 3rd place at his very first meet. He should feel more comfortable as the season progresses.
Baylie is doing 2 musicals this year. Robin Hood was in the fall, and now she is in Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat. She enjoys her time to herself/with her friends.
Dan and Truman have their 1st loose tooth. we'll see who pulls it out first. Dan went for his neurodevelopmental evaluation this week. He did pretty well. They say he still has a few of his autistic type behaviors that they are going to work on. They expect him to progress quite well.
Addie had her birthday. She is walking and starting to say several words now. How does that happen so fast. It seems like she was just a tiny baby yesterday.
Jack had his 12th birthday. He is getting so big and maturing a bit. He has been into making origami things and things out of duct tape lately. He has also been a big help with our van when difficulties arrive. I am thankful for the talents God has given him.
Charlie and Daniella have been enjoying playing just dance on the wii they got for Christmas. It is funny to watch all of them down there dancing away. With Mario Carts Charlie seems to drive into the walls alot, but he enjoys trying.
I have several photos/videos I would like to download onto my blog, but no way to download them on right now. Hopefully later, i will be able to do that.
I guess that it all for now,
take care,
Vickie
Monday, September 5, 2011
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Summer
oks like I need to update for July and August.
July brought Zarah and my birthdays. Zarah went to a 2 day gymnastics camp in Columbia, Mo and had a great time. Our insurance company forced us to replace our roof (not good for the ole family budget)on our house. Some of the children spent a few days in Joplin, Mo with our old neighbors. Fun was had by all. 2 Royals baseball games were attended by Matt and a few of the children.
August: Baylie and Matt attended a culinary open house in KS. She loved it and stills plans to attend college to become a chef/restaurant owner after high school. After 11 wonderful years of being a stay at home mom, I entered back into the work force. I very much appreciate my wonderful husband for doing such a great job supporting our family this last decade. As the children have gotten older and desire to participate in more extracurrilar activities, the time has come for me to pitch in and bring home a pay check. For the next several months, I am helping a couple hours a day with a lady with beginning stage alzheimers. She is a wonderful lady, and I really enjoy our time spent together. I also am working a couple of hours a day at one of 4 area nursing homes doing data entry for their physical therapy department. All the staff I have met so far are very nice; as long as I tell them I am not a PT competing for their job. I am only there to help things run smoothly. Although the job is a bit more complicated than I originally thought, I am catching on and learning new things about Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, etc. 
School is back in session. We are all trying to get our new schedules ironed out to fit everything in. Baylie is a Freshman this year. Yikes!! How did that happen. 
Except for the horror she felt when opening up her biology book package and finding her lab specimens in there, she is liking high school. Oops, if I would have remembered, I would have warned her.
Except for the horror she felt when opening up her biology book package and finding her lab specimens in there, she is liking high school. Oops, if I would have remembered, I would have warned her. Dan celebrated his 6th birthday. He had a lot more of an opinion this year about what he wanted for dessert. He has started singing songs now. It is great to hear his little voice making a melody. He has officially been part of our family longer now than he spent in the orphanage. He is a very different boy than we met in 2008. With his big hands, tall stature, deep voice, and continued response/understanding of some Serbian words; he will always carry a part of Serbia with him. We are very thankful to all those involved in caring for Dejan during his first 2 1/2 years of his life. He is a loving boy who enjoys playing outside and driving toy cars. He continues to have a special bond with his sister Daniella and little brother Charlie. Although he comes up with many ways to get himself in trouble, his big smile melts your heart.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Summer
You gotta love boys. There was about a 2 week time period in June where Dan was having an especially great time. Every year we have a couple of weeks where the cicadas swarm, make lots of nice music outside, and then leave their shells behind on the trees. Well, Dan took this opportunity to bring in at least one live cicada every day to show me. He loved them. After there was only their shells left, he took t
he time to go out with plastic baggies and coll
ect a lot of them. I guess Dan is allergic to poison sumac. Nasty stuff! He got it all over; even in his mouth. Yikes. Thankfully, after many showers a day with Tecnu soap and mouthwash for his mouth, it is all gone now. Poor thing.
We made it to church camp this year in Oklahoma. Everyone h
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It was good to see our 
friends again from the south. We sang i
n the 
talent show...Rockin Robin by the 
Jackson Five. Some of our activities included crafts, swimming,fishing, ki
ckball, volleyball, etc.
n the 
talent show...Rockin Robin by the 
Jackson Five. Some of our activities included crafts, swimming,fishing, ki
ckball, volleyball, etc. The children were nervous the first night when a storm blew up. Our popup camper was moving around a bit. On our way down we stopped at some friends house in Joplin (where the big tornado destroyed a large area of the town). Well, when the storm came in Oklahoma; the children were afraid it was a tornado. No, just a usual Oklahoma storm. Of course, the swimming clothes are never the same after the red mud, but the water helps when it is 104 degrees outside.
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