Post Op Appointment & Starting School

Jonathan did great on both of this hearing tests Thursday. His tubes are in place and doing great. We are happy there are no signs of hearing loss. He can get his ears wet including tub and swimming. This kind of ear tube is different from big brother Stephen's. His ears should not drain. If they drain we have to take him to the doctor. His pediatrician will recheck his ears again at his 15 month appointment and 18 month appointment.

The boys start big boy school (daycare) on Monday and I start at my new school. Please pray for me to have a good morning routine this week as we transition into leaving the house on time so I can get to work on time. I know I can do it but it will be an adjustment for me. Getting myself fed, dressed and both boys dressed and at least a snack before they leave the house. They eat breakfast, morning snack, lunch and a afternoon snack at daycare. Jonathan is used to eating by 7am so I will have to feed him right away when he wakes up. This means waking up by 5am to get out of the house by 6:50am. I like to get to work early (7:25) and leave early (3:20) so I can pick the boys up by 4pm. Thankfully, this week is mainly meetings, working with my team planning, district Convocation and one day of working in my room. The first week of school with kids is not until Aug 23-27. It will be different since I will probably stay until 4pm everyday getting things organized. The good thing is it will be the boys second week in daycare so they will be somewhat used to daycare.

Please pray for the adjustment we will all have to make getting back into the routine of me working again. I am usually exhausted for the first 3 weeks of school. I will still need to have energy to devote to the boys in the evenings. It will be hard now with 2 BUT I can do it.

13 months

Jonathan is walking everywhere now. He started walking about 3 steps at at time at 11 months and graduated to walking around 12 months. He just recently started getting really fast. We go in this upcoming week for his hearing screening. I think he is a little delayed in speech because he still just says sounds. We are praying the hearing screening will be fine and that he will hopefully start babbling more than Mama and Dada in the next few months.

Daniel and I took the boys to visit their new school (daycare). It's actually not new because Stephen attended the same daycare from 12-18 months. I wanted to meet their teachers and I wanted them to meet their teachers, see their room and mainly let Stephen see where he will be going while I am at my school. I also wanted the teachers to see Daniel and I both together. Daniel may be picking the boys up more now that I am going back to work. Stephen and I have talked about me going to my school so I took him to where I will work. I thought since we start in a week I should take them to their school now so their teachers can meet them too. It was good to talk to Jonathan's teacher so she has a heads up for my little brute. He is a handful lately. We are doing what the pediatrician says and are not disciplining him until 15 months for biting. I hope it's just a thing he does to us but at the rate he is going he might bite a daycare. As a Mom we all do not want our own kids to get bitten so I really don't want my kid to be the biter. Ugh! He doesn't bite at church nursery but it's only a few hours long. Please pray for me to give this to the Lord because it's really out of my control. He has to outgrow the behavior.

1st Grade

I have my classroom about 90% finished. All I really need to do is finish my level reader library. Mom had the boys while I finished up some last minute things in my room this week. I also met my first grade team for the first time. We met on Thursday and ate lunch together. I am excited to start fresh in a new grade level. When I find my camera cord I will upload pictures.

Please say a prayer for my sister. She has been on a mission trip in Kenya from July 30th- August 9th.