The Rural Life

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Yes, it's been a while. I thought I'd take a moment to catch everyone up on the past few months.

Cameron continues to move forward with his eating. He has moved up to cream of wheat and on occasion, grits. He really is learning to enjoy the flavors of different foods and tend to prefer things like pudding and prunes of all things! He had a swallow study in February that shows that he is not aspirating and that we can continue feeds. This also allows him to get feeds at school! I have to admit, the praise goes to Mrs. Annie. She has been so determined that he WILL eat and that he WILL be free of that feeding tube! She has been a tremendous blessing to Cam and our family.

The Therapy Place continues to move forward and we are set for our first offering this summer. We have scheduled a Conductive Education summer camp running from July 13th to August 14th here in Columbia. This will be the first time Conductive Education has been offered in Columbia and we are so proud to bring it here! The historic Trinity Episcopal Cathedral located in downtown Columbia has offered their Center for Mission and Ministry as space for our program. We have scheduled a golf tournament for Monday, April 20, 2009 to help pay for the program.

Chad and Conner are moving right along through the school year. Chad is 10 and is in the fourth grade. He is doing fairly well, but school is NOT his favorite thing. He did play football last fall and decided that was not his thing. Baseball is no longer his thing either so we are having a quiet spring! I'm kind of grateful for that actually. I hope Chad can figure out what his thing is!

Conner is wrapping up his last pre-school year at North Trenholm Baptist Church's Weekday Education. He is doing very well and loves to go. He has some wonderful friends that may actually end up in Kindergarten with him next year. He is very into Star Wars and Legos right now. I can be dangerous walking through our house at times! Baseball is out for him too, but he loves Gymnastics! He is such a daredevil that this is right up his alley!!

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Kid's are the best comedians!

January 25, 2009 - Conner is standing there talking to me while wearing his Star Wars Jengo Fett Costume with his Batman cape and mask. "Hey Mom! Did you know that Jengo Fett wears his Batman costume? In Star Wars episode 348 he got it out of his toybox. He has a toybox in episode 348."
October 21, 2008 - Conner was riding in the van watching Star War Return of the Jedi. They were at the scene where Luke and Darth Vader are fighting when he said, "Darth Vader has a red light saber. Red means stop! Luke has a green Light Saber, and green means go!" Trying my best not to laugh, I asked him what the blue one meant. He thought for a second and said, "It means you stop your car, get out and do a flip!"
August 2008 - Clark and I were going on a date night with some friends and we were taking Chad and Conner to stay with my Mom. Chad asked me if we were going on a date and I told him we were. He then proceeded to ask, "When did you know that you liked Daddy? Was it when you saw him on eHarmony.com?" I really felt old when I told him that we didn't have that back when I met Clark!
September 22, 2008 - Conner told me today that they saw a bug at school that prays to God! He was on the picnic table on the playground. I told him that it was called a praying mantis. I also told him there were other types of bugs like that only they were brown and looked like sticks. They were called stick bugs. He said, "No, they are called playground bugs and the are on picnic tables on playgrounds." Momma stands corrected!
Not sure exactly when this started, but Chad likes to call "shotgun" and try to ride in the front passenger seat when we ride in the van. Now, when we go out and Chad says, "I call shotgun!", Conner will say, "I call pistol!"
July 20, 2008 - Chad is showing me the commercial for the newest Mummy movie and is sooo excited! Not wanting to be left out, Conner asks if he can go see the "scary new 'Mommy' movie too?".
July 19, 2008 - Conner is so desperate to lose a tooth just like Chad (who has lost 6 in the past month!!). This morning the sausage had a lot of little hard fat pieces in it for some reason. Conner got a piece in his mouth and said "I lost a tooth!". I asked him to show me which one and he started feeling around his mouth.
July 19, 2008 - We bought a new fish today, his name is (get ready!) Rambo Fred Raphael Skittles III (aka Jaws). No one could agree! When we got him in the car, Chad noticed that there was a "W" written on the top of the container. He asked me what that was for and I explained that it actually was an "M" for male. Conner then asked "So we can 'mail' him if he dies?".
February 2008 - I had told Chad and Conner that we were going to the Book Fair at Cam's school, but we couldn't go until later in the day. Conner said, "But I want to go to the Book Fairy!"
January 2008 - Conner had dropped something behind the bed and wanted me to get it. I asked him if he could reach it and he said, "No, because it's very, very down!"
June 2008 - Abby (my neice) wanted to go swimming. We had told them that they could not swim unless an adult went with them. Abby told the other kids, "I'll go see if my Mom will be the Dult!"