Sunday Night

It's Sunday night and we are all winding down here. Jennifer and I went to see the new Start Trek movie and Gary had a new babysitter (Jamie) watch him. Jamie is going into the ninth grade and is the daughter of one of Jennifer's lunch bunch friends.

Movie time for mom and dad

Yea. We are just waiting for our new teenage babysitter. Then off to the movies for me and Nick we are going to see Star Trek. I am soo excited. Gary is excited too he gets some one new to play with. We know Jamie from our Lunch Bunch group. So should be a fun day for everyone. Well Jamie just got here so off I am. Hope everyone else has just as much fun today as we will.

Love
Jennifer

Friday Night

Gary did well tonight but I think he is not feeling 100%. He fell asleep around nine and then work up around ten. Jennifer sat with him in the recliner in his bedroom and he was soon back asleep. He feels a little warm but I took his temperature and he does not have a fever. We'll probably take it easy again tomorrow. Sunday we have a babysitter so Jen and I can go see the new star trek movie.

Summer Fever

I think my son has summer fever. He was doing very well tis week. He had a great day on Monday, sat really well for us at lunch time. Then he had a great time at school on Tuesday and a good time at Dr. Rydell's. Dr. Rydell was very proud of Gary's progress. He has truly come a long was since his first visit 3 years ago. Then yesturday was another good day. He was getting squirrelly with Miss Nicki, but over all did good. He is just getting overly excited. Summer time is deffinatly in the air. We had our Lunch Bunch picnic yesterday. We had so much fun. The kids played with bubbles and on the playground. Had lots of food and great company. It will be the last school day lunch picnic for the Kindies since next year they will be in 1st grade. Hard to believe they have grown up so fast. We have been a part of this play group for 3 years now. Goin miss everyone. But lots of plans for play time this summer. I am going to try and have some play dates at our home. Some moms said their little ones are still talking about how much fun they had at our home. BBQ and fun at the Kocals!
Gary had a rough day today at school. I really think he is just to excited. But will have to talk to him about annoying the other kids and not going to time out. I am also going to talk with the Prinicple so we are all on working the same to help Gary with his emotions. Better to talk now and get everything on a good track. Then latter when Gary is in big trouble.
Gary has done great her at home today. He has been playing computer games and leaving them to go outside and play. He has walked away twice from the computer for me today with no fights. He had a great time playing with his little friends outside today. Then the others had to go in. But hopefully his classemates that live close by will be over later and we will all play some more. Hope you are all having a great week.

LYL_ Love You Lots

Jennifer

Wednesday Night

It was a good day for Gary. He had a good day at school. He played with his "lunch bunch". It was there last meeting of the year. Finally he did well with his OT today.

Lunch Time with Old Friends

We had lunch today with an old friend of Nick's Kelly and her Aunt Sara. It was a very nice time. I really enjoyed making new friends. Gary was very well behaved. We were there for about 2 hours. Then came home and Gary played his computer games. Then we ate dinner and now watching TV. Nick took the day off to see his friends and I had fun having Nick home another day. I did some more yard work. If all goes well, I should have beautiful flowers growing in my yard this year. We have had lots of rain all weekend.

Yesterday we went to my mom's for lunch. My cousins Karen, Lynn and James were there. We toured my dad's garden this year. We had a great time. Gary had fun playing in Grandpa garden as always. Been a great Memorial Day weekend for us. Back to work for all tomorrow. Nick at work, Gary at school, me doing housework. Fun Fun

Love to all. and to all a good night.

Jennifer

It's Movie Time

Today was our big day. Gary has been looking forward to today and he did great at the movies. I am soo excited. He sat and watched the whole movie. He was very happy sitting next to Daddy eating popcorn and watching his movie. I was so proud and excited, I was the one who had a hard time sitting still. I kept looking over at Gary and just bursting with happiness. He looked like anyother kid just watching a Movie. Wow he is growing up so fast. He did great until Mommy kept reaching over to grab his hands. Then he gave up and wanted to sit next to Mommy. So he was good I was bad. We all enjoyed watching Night at The Museum 2. Now I just need to rent the first one.

After the movie we went to eat lunch and then off to Tennis lessons. Gary had an awesome time at tennis. He was hitting almost every ball over the net. He also was hitting moving balls. He was so happy today. He did get tired after all the stimulation. So now he is having his down time. But I am one very proud mommy tonight. Hope U all have a great Memorial Day.

Love
Jennier

Almost Bedtime

It's late Friday night and I hope I am still the only one up. Gary and Jennifer are upstairs in the "big bed" watching Spy Kids 3 and I am going through email that I need to save.

Gary had a mixed day at school but a good day at Hippo. He went to Club 4 Kids for a while and Jennifer and I had a nice quiet dinner and did some grocery shopping.

Tomorrow Gary is going to his first movie in a theater and then has his tennis lesson.

Cloudy and Lazy

Gary had a fun day at school today. He ran with the rest of the school in a fundraiser. I think it was a 5k kinda thing. The kids just ran around laps until they were done. I did not get to see the fun, because it was at 9am. I was afraid that Gary would want to go home afterwards if he saw me. But heard about all the fun. Gary even got a T- shirt. Fun fun.

Now we are just being lazy. Gary is playing on the computer and I am getting caught up on my computer stuff, email, blogs Face Book etc. It is very cloudy here and much cooler. about 56 right now. Nice break form the 88 and 92 the last few days. I will try to get Gary off the computer soon and we will do something. Hope everyone is having a great day.

Love
Jennifer

Fun Day

Gary had an awsome time today. He played outside with the neighbor girl Mira and had fun. We played chase, hide in seek and even got some ice cream from the ice cream truck. Then Gary picked a flower for his mommy. It was so cute, but the flower was from my other neighbors yard. Then Macy form Gary's class came by. She happens to live only a few blocks away. Her and her younger brother played with us. Then Macy was running and fell down and scraped her knee. She was upset and said it hurt. So Gary went and picked another tulip and then handed it to Macy to make her fell better. That was super cool and sweet. How precious is that my boy gave her a flower because she was unhappy. Too cute. I don't know if my other neighbor will find it as cute. So Gary had a great day. He even did well with Miss. Nicki. Tomorrow they are having a Fox Trot. or run / walk fund raiser for the school. I signed a permision slip for Gary to just walk along. I will try to be there to help with some of the classes and walk with Gary and some other kids. Should be interesting. Well me and Gary are very sleepy. Good night . Enjoy the flowers in your life.

Jennifer

Tuesday

Jennifer had her physical today so I left work early so that I could pick Gary up after school and then take him to his appointment with Dr. Rydell. Jennifer finished her appointment so she was able to meet us for lunch. Gary did pretty good at his appointment.

We are all now home. Jennifer is pretending to do some yard work, Gary is playing on the computer (Jimmy Neutron), and I am getting ready to leave for a dentist appointment (just a cleaning).

Manic Monday

Gary did not have a great day at school today. He was kicking and stabed his Paraprofesional with a pencil. So I sat on the ground with him and talked about his day. They had donuts in the classroom and he missed getting some because he was in time out. So he was still fixed on getting donuts. So we sat there and talked about how he missed the donuts. How kicking and hitting was not being good. We talked about what being good would look like. Then we talked about what we could do to earn a donut. I told him he could not have the donuts at school, but could earn a donut from Lamars. So I told him all the things he needed to do to earn a donut. First we went back inside the school. We appoligized to Miss Jesica and promised not to hurt her tomorrow. We went home and had to put away our back pack and go potty in the potty chair like a big boy. We had to pee in the little green cup ( yes I have still been trying to get the sample for the Doctor's office). Then he got to go to Lamars and pick out his donut.

Now he is behaving just fine. He has been very good and sweet. I hope he has a good day tomorrow. but at least he looked at me and listened to what makes a good boy and what makes a bad boy. This is a great start. We use to not beable to get him to understand or even care about his behavior. Even regular 6 year olds don't always say sorry when they are wrong or sit and talk about their behavior. So I think we will have a good day for the rest of today. It is already in the 80's and only 1 pm. Hot hot hot.

Love
Jennifer

Sunny Sunday

Been having a lazy day today. Gary is happy playign on the computer. I did do alot of yard work earlier then got to hot. Now playing on the computer too. Nick is resting, I slept in. There is just 3 weeks left of school. Hard to believe summer is here and Gary will be in 1st grade before I know it. Wow the time has flown. Having fun resting. Been having a busy week. Next week will be busy too. It is time for physicals and need some dental work done. Gary is having fun with his horse therapy. He has been able to ride Poptart. He really likes it. This summer he will be busy with therapies, swimming leasons and tennis. He has also been having fun playing with the neighbors in the afternoon. Have a great day.

Love U Lots
Jennifer

Saturday

It's been a good Saturday so far. Jennifer went to a Jewelry party an I took Gary to tennis. After tennis Gary and I went to McDonald's for a bit.

Gary did great at tennis. He hit forehand and backhand volleys.

Interesting Day

My interesting day started with Gary standing in his walk in closet reaching for clothes. He had already taken off his PJ pants and was trying to find clothes for the day. He has never done that before. WOW what a growth. My baby is a big boy now. After picking out his clothes we had breakfast. He went potty like a big boy then went outside to wait for the School bus.
While Gary was at school I had breakfast with my new friend Tersa. We both have families in the North Carolinas. Her son Jacob is in Gary's class. Whie we were talking we found out that we are distante cousins. Wow. Looking into more Genology to see who eles we have in common.
After school Gary played computer games before going to the Doctors for our yearly check up. While at the doctors I found out later that there was a bear spotted across the street form the Doctors office. So while I am trying to convince a 6 year old to pee in a cup, a bear is roaming around the open space not far form the Doctors office. The bear was 1.7 miles away form our drive way. Yes I decide after the bear was gone to see just how far away it really is.
Also since Gary would not pee in the cup at the Doctors I decided he might be better off at home. So I got to play the pee in the cup game at home. Gary would start to pee, I would hold the cup. Gary would say No. I no pee in cup. Gary would stop peeing. I would remove the cup. Then Gary would start to pee again. I would place the cup and Gary woud stop again. And to think I will probable get to try this again tomorrow. They don't think I got enough. Fun Fun times of being a MOM.

So my son picked out his own clothes. My new friend is my distant cousin. There was a bear in my neighborhood. And my son does not want to pee in the cup. Yep an interesting day.

Lots Of Love

Jennifer

Mother's Day

We had a nice Mother's Day here. Jennifer's parents came over for lunch bringing pizza. We had strawberry shortcake for desert. Gary had a good day also. He played Batman, watched some television, and played outside with Karl and Ilija.

Sunny Saturday

Hi everyone. It is fun to be back. I had fun last weekend in KC. Gary has had an up and down week. We have been extra busy this week. He is happy playing Computer games. Then around 1 pm today he goes off to Tennis lessons. He likes them and it is so much help for him. It is an interesting way to utilize all the other Therapys. He will make a fuss going but have fun once he gets there.

I am looking forward to just a nice resting day. No other big plans. Gary got to ride Poptart yesterday. I did some yard work. I have finished all my paper work for the adoption classes. I just have to get my CPR training and Physicals done. Then clean up the house, organize the clutter and Bring on the home study. Hopefully we will have a new family member by Christmas. It would be nice to give a child a family for Christmas.


Love

Jennifer

Thursday

It's Thursday night and we are finally winding down here. Gary and Jennifer are hopefully asleep. Jennifer and I went to class number six. Two more plus a make-up, a little more paperwork, my fingerprints and then bring on the home study.

Gary had fun with his baby sitter while we were in class. She said he ate well, played Batman for a while, and then came upstairs for her without a fight. They were watching Spongebob when we got home for class.

Tomorrow Gary has school and the speech therapy combined with hippo therapy.

Home Sweet Home

I had a great time in Kansas City but also very happy to be back home. Gary had an awesome day today. He had a fantastic session with Dr. Pat. He was following directions and paying attention and calm. It was fun to see him acting like any other 6 six old. Then we went to our play area Little Monkey Business where he played really well with the other children. He even put his shoes in the cubby holder like the other kids do. That was the first time he put his shoes where all the other kids put there shoes. It seems small but for us is really a big deal. There is so much to say but Gary is getting restless and it is getting late. So I will write more later. Good night everyone.

Love
Jennifer

Mommy's Back

Gary stayed home from school today as he had a little stomach flu. He has lots of energy just some loose stool (yuchy). After too ichy pull-ups this morning I decided to keep him home.

Jennifer is back home after her trip to KC. Gary did look up from his game to acknowledge her. I went and got him, he paused the game and did not fight at all (or very little). He was then happy to see his mommy.

Sunday Night, The Boys are all Right

We spent a quiet day at home. He played some computer games, played across the street for a bit, and also played with Christine down the street.

We went to Fatburger for dinner. Then watched Wishology part III. He took his bath and is now eating his bedtime snack. He has school tomorrow and after school we will go to the airport to pick up Jennifer.

Boys weekend, continued

We are back inside. Gary played on his scooter for a while and swung on the swing at Justin and Mira's. Mira came out for a while and played with Gary.

We are now back inside and Gary is playing Monster vs. Aliens. He did not play it yesterday which was a good break.

Saturday Morning

It was a quiet Saturday morning here that start at 7:30 (oh well, Gary was asleep by 9:15 Friday night). We have spent the day so far eating breakfast (Gary cereal, me home made french onion soup), watching some TV, playing Disney computer games, and now eating lunch (Gary is having mini corn dogs, I will have leftover chicken nuggets).

We just started watching Shrek and I am about to lose the computer again, so I'm off to eat lunch.

Gary says "hi mommy".

Friday Night with the Boys

Gary has had a good day today. He had a thumbs up day at school and a good session of speech therapy (hippo therapy). He rode Cowboy today.

After speech we went to King Soopers for some milk and bread. I made French onion soup. We also had BLTs.

Gary had fun watch the Fairly Odd Parents "Wishology Part I".

While he did play on my laptop today (Nick Jr. Games), he has not played any Monsters vs Aliens.

Tomorrow is Saturday, hurrah for weekends.