First Day of School!

Today was Wyatt's first day of his second year of preschool.  He is going back to Wilkinson where he was last year, but he has a new teacher and is riding the bus.  He rode a bus to summer school and we've met his teacher, so there were no huge surprises for him, but I was still anxious for the new year.  I've gotten used to spending all day with him and I'm going to miss seeing him so much.  Wyatt was excited to go to school and ride the bus - he was very obedient about getting ready and going outside to wait to be picked up.

Wyatt with his new haircut.  I always think he looks so much older with short hair.

He had a full backpack - lots to take to school for the first day! 

Waiting patiently for the bus. 

When the bus pulled up, he was a little out of sorts because it was a long bus, not a short one like he rode all summer long.  He kept saying "no, no, no" and lagged behind as we walked to the bus, but he got on and sat down without too much of a struggle.

Picking a seat.

Let's roll!



There were two boys on the bus already and one recognized Wyatt from school and kept calling out "Wyatt!  It's Wyatt!"  Apparently he's a minor celebrity at school :)  I'm excited for this new school year.  He's got a great teacher and therapists to work with.  We've seen some encouraging leaps forward in his development over the last few months and hope to see it continue throughout the year.  Hooray for Wyatt, we're so proud of you!

Our address

We have something new about our address. It is Taylorsville, UT 84129. Taylorsville now has its own ZIP Code.

WhatsApp Messenger

First blog post in June... ACHIEVMENT UNLOCKED!

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May I suggest a social texting app for your mobile phone? It's called WhatsApp Messenger. It is free to use and supports many handheld devices. It would come in handy as we venture out together this summer and beyond. If you're already using one, and don't want to add another, do share! And now I shall bore you with a few pictures of our recent visit to the land that Uncle Walt built...

Storm Photos

We had a big storm blow through St. Louis last night.  We are all safe and didn't suffer any damage, but I thought you'd be interested in some pictures:

We had some large hail stones.  It was not a pleasant sound to hear those bouncing off of the cars!

The largest were about the size of an egg.

I gathered up several for reference:

Our neighbor has two large blossoming pear trees, one of which is very close to our house.  When we first moved in, she had four.  They get so big and top-heavy that they don't fare well in high winds (as we witnessed with the first two trees).  So you can imagine that we've been holding our breath, hoping that the one just outside our bedroom window doesn't fall onto our house during some big storm.  Yesterday it lost a huge branch.  Thankfully it fell out into the street and didn't cause any damage.

The limb is almost as big as a full-grown tree!

Why do we choose to live in places with such wild weather?

Haiti Trip

As some of you may or may not have heard, Jake is leaving for Haiti on Thursday to do a medical mission with some of his coworkers, organized by a non-profit group. He will be there until Tuesday doing long, pediatric neurosurgery cases. I'm so proud of him for choosing to do this! When we come out to Utah this summer, we'll plan a night that Jake can share his stories and photos for anyone who is interested. Haiti is a very poor country and still struggling from the effects of last year's earthquake. You can imagine that it is a challenging place to visit. Please keep Jake in your prayers that he can stay safe and healthy while he travels and works. Our trip is less than two months away; let the countdown commence!

Quint's blog

Quint, where is your blog, what happened? I was looking forward to it.

Mom

New HPDH2 trailer. GO!

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I saw this website in an article in the Des News and thought I would pass it along. It is a blog about teaching autistic children in Primary, titled "Autism and Primary-making them work together. With our little ones with this disability, maybe it can be of some use to help the kid's Primary teachers and also in our families not only in Primary but in FHE and daily activities.

autismandprimary.blogspot.com

The twins are now sleeping in their own "big boy" beds. They are pretty excited about it, although Danny would still prefer to sleep in "Mama's bed". I went with Mom to buy the mattresses and "bunky" (platform) boards yesterday, but although I had ordered the boards on Saturday, they hadn't arrived yet. So, the salesman who was helping us offered to deliver them to my house later that night. Well, wouldn't you know it, the truck still didn't arrive. Fortunately, it did today and so he brought them over and we made up the beds. I almost wish that I had never taught the kids "10 little monkeys" because they were singing that as they test-jumped on the new mattresses. I had to tell them repeatedly to stop before they finally did. I think I have a long road ahead of me here!

Some new stuff from me

I decided to start taking a picture each day and blog about it, I have created a new blog with my first entry here, if any of you are interested.