Where is the summer going? June was a wash, mainly because Chief (our puppy) caught parvo, and he required round the clock care for about 2 weeks. I was in class for a week, the boys were off wrestling for a week. It just disappeared. John has turned sixteen and gotten his permit, Dominic turned twelve, and Ang will soon be 3. Our high school 25 year reunion is around the corner. Hard to believe how fast time goes.
Angela will "age out" of her First Steps early intervention program when she turns three in August. It's a little traumatic only because she's had THE BEST team of therapists as our safety net to keep us helping her grow- we will soon be on our own! We chose not to send her to public preschool; I realize that there are aspects of that which would benefit her greatly, but I see more benefits with her being with her family, who love her and want her to do well more than anyone else could. So I'll be signing her up for Down Syndrome of Louisville's playgroups for her age, where they have a very capable DI teacher doing preschool stuff with them. She can go twice a week, and I'll go with her. I also need to get her going to a private speech therapist weekly. Her speech has seen a lot of improvement the past couple of weeks- let's pray it continues! She had her last therapy session this week with her Developmental Interventionist, Sarah. Sarah is moving to China with her family in August, and she is going to work with children in a school and orphanage there while her husband does his doctoral work and teaches school. It's kind of a neat course of life, since Sarah's little boy she adopted is from China! It was extremely sad for me to see her leaving the house, knowing she won't be back to see little miss Angela like she has been doing for some two years now. AND, she was a great inspiration for me to follow her into the world of being a DI. We will miss Sarah. Thankfully, I will at some point in the next couple of years be actually working with Angie's other therapists as a colleague when I become a DI, so I know I'll see them often, which is a real blessing.
Do you like the chicken pictures? Rita and Maria like the chickens a lot, and they are kind of nice animals outside of being smelly. We had two broody hens this spring and have seven little chicks now- too cute. Pray they are hens so their lives may be spared! ;-)
