Ethan graduated from preschool and we were so proud of him. He really did a great job this year. He will be moving on to Kindergarten in the fall at the same school he has been attending for the past two years. The day after his graduation, we had his IEP meeting. Ethan will continue to receive speech services, but doesn't need any academic services as of now. He will also have an aide in the classroom that he will share with at least one other student, maybe more. We found out that academically, he is doing very well, even better than we thought, so again we were very proud of him. This summer, he will be involved in several different things. He will be in a therapy group called Social Butterflies, which will help him with his social skills. It is an 8 week program, but only once a week. At the end of the month, he will go to Safety-Town for 9 days. It will be great, because he will be with some of the kids he will be going to school with. He will also likely be with some of the kids that he was in preschool with. He will also attend the VBS at our church. I am also working on planning some little field trips that he will be allowed to take some of his cousins to. We really want to immerse him in a lot of fun activities that include other kids, to help him to continue to grow socially and help him prepare for kindergarten. Another big piece of news for him is that he was able to graduate from private speech therapy. He has gone as far as he can with private sessions. He will now have group sessions at school, which will help him with his conversational skills.
Micah turned 7 months and is now headed towards 8 months. He has been sitting like a pro now and has even been working on standing. His favorite position is standing and jumping. He loves to jump in any way possible. We have yet to see him consitently roll over and he seems to have no desire to crawl, since he screams when we put him on his tummy. We are now sure that he will probably bypass crawling and go straight to walking. I know that for the best physical growth, he needs to crawl, so we will continue to push him to crawl. He does scoot himself around pretty well now. When on the floor, he will scoot backwards on his back or if he is sitting he will just hop himself from place to place. He really wants to move, but in the upright position if possible!! Micah finally has some teeth popping out. We have been waiting months for them to finally pop out and now he has two of his bottom teeth coming in. So, we've been dealing with a lot of ups and downs with him, but at least they are finally coming through. He has really been learning about his voice, of course, he tries to really show his voice in the quietest moments at church! He seems to feel that the pastor should not be the center of attention. In today's sermon, the pastor said "the prophet Micah said..." and continued into a quote and in that moment it was like Micah heard it and started talking even louder. He can say "a ba ba ba" really well and very loud!!
Matt has ended wallyball, which is his winter sport. He travels down to BGSU each week for that during the school year. He was really happy when beach volleyball started up again. He drives to BG each Sunday to play. He has also started to play on Tuesday's at his former boss' house. That is another long drive, but he doesn't care as long as he gets to play. He has been in a weight loss program at work and has been doing very well, losing about 6 lbs so far. It definitely helps when several people at work are all doing the same thing.
I finished work last week, but I will still have to go in tomorrow to finish closing my room for the summer. I'm excited to be home with the boys and actually enjoy this summer. I feel like doing so many things that I couldn't do last year! I really do feel like a new person this year, because of what I went through last year. Last week, I started working with a personal trainer. I am currently doing it with a friend and my sister and niece may start coming also. I'm really excited to get this going. The exercise part is great, but I really need to work hard on the food part. It will take me a little longer to get myself eating better, but with the summer, it should hopefully not be too hard. It helps to have better fresh fruits and vegetables available. I really hope to make it all work for me so that I can reach some big goals by the end of the summer. Now that I'm out of school, I should be able to update more regularly instead of once every few weeks!
Here are a couple of pictures...
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