Life is full, busy, and loads of fun!
The things that are filling my days right now are meals and dishes, lots of appointments, enjoying two middles, two littles and a grandbaby, summer school, and keeping up with the house and farm.
Maybe even in that order!
It is keeping me hopping through our days here!
But I am loving it ALL!
One day after we finished school, we soaked some water beads to play with.
Water beads are a sensory activity, but our sensory girl did not like them!
She put her hands in as I snapped this photo, and then was done.
It was all good though!
The two boys played with those beads for hours.
I grabbed Eliza to be my special helper!
She loves to help me in the kitchen.
She helps me everyday!
My new little chef in the making.
As always, I am purposing some one-on-one time with these kiddos.
It is SO important!
Eliza loves to cuddle and be read to!
Appointments in the mornings continue to fill our weeks.
This week Tate had a chiropractor appointment!
We see our chiropractor to promote health, but Tate specifically sees our chiropractor because of his severe scoliosis.
He LOVES our chiropractor! We all do!
Tate and Eliza also had ultrasound appointments this week.
They both have these every six months to check their bladder and kidneys.
They were strong and brave!
These kiddos say the cutest things all day long.
Tate came in from playing outside and said “HELLO!!!! I’m back home!!”
My favorite thing that Tate asks often is “What about the two littles?”
We just might call them the littles a lot.
Chad has been taking care of the farm.
It can be a full time job!
He is doing a GREAT job though!
I love when I bring my phone to the computer to download photos and find little surprises on there!
Hilarious!!
Our sweet Sadie girl is growing FAST.
And getting huge.
She is a ball of fun!!
Around one in the afternoon everyday, the two littles still take a nap.
Our schedule is working well like this!
This gives me about an hour and a half to run around like a blur and try to get some necessary things done!
A lot of our appointments lately have been about therapy services for Tate and Eliza.
Our insurance would not cover what is needed, so we had the littles evaluated by our local school district.
They were not eligible for their services, because they have to have needs in more than one area.
Two of the therapists still met with me and spent time teaching me things that I can do to continue to help the littles here at home!
SUCH a blessing!
My hubby and boys made scooter boards this weekend.
You lay on the board on your belly and use your arms to pull yourself around.
We are using them to strengthen Tate’s core and neck!
They are a HIT!
There are lots of other things we will be doing for Tate too!
Eliza’s need for therapy seems more urgent in my mind.
We have made such progress with the things we have been doing already – but we want to see Eliza THRIVE, not just survive.
I met with the school’s OT therapist this morning, and choked back the tears the whole way home.
What a blessing to have her help!
I am very excited about all the things she taught me to add to Eliza’s day!
We have been feeding Eliza her sensory meals with bouncing, swinging, brushing and jumping.
But now we will be adding sensory snacks throughout the day too!
The therapist let me borrow this weighted lap blanket.
Eliza already used this today and really liked it.
It is very heavy, and lays across her lap when she is sitting or laying down.
We will definitely be using this often!
There are so many other things I will be trying with her soon.
I am excited to gather some supplies to make “fidget” toys.
I think these will work well for Eliza!
Just this evening we saw huge progress with Eliza!
She was outside BAREFOOT.
You have no idea what this means to us!
She was barefoot on the sidewalk, and it stopped us in our tracks.
She has walked barefoot on the sidewalk before though!
Then she followed her side kick in to the grass.
And ran, and ran, and ran!
We all stood and watched with tears.
She struggles to walk in the grass in her mucking boots usually!
The feeling of grass on your feet should never stop a little girl from being a little girl and running in the grass – but for our little girl – it does.
To God be the Glory – great things He has done!!
I am so excited to watch the Lord use all the new things I have learned to help Eliza even more!
Today was just such a beautiful day!
We enjoyed being outside SO much!
This was a very random, unorganized page in my scrapbook!
This would not have worked back in the days when I made Creative Memories scrapbooks!!
But it is life here lately!
A bit unorganized, but full of blessings!!
Hope you all are having a blessed week too!
