New happenings

Well I still can't find my camera so for the time being my post will be picture less. So another year of school has started for everyone but me and Sariah. Dwayne is doing two classes with labs this fall, and it is hard not to have him around as much. He is super busy and he works every weekend, so we don't see much except in passing to eat a quick meal. Micah started first grade this year and he couldn't be happier. The second week of school was hard for him the teacher called and said he was acting up in class. I was sick and so Dwayne just happened to be home and was able to go to his class. Micah was shocked to see him. But after talking to Micah Dwayne found out that Micah would finish his math faster than everyone and then bug his friends to talk to him in class. And that he was reading on a 3rd grade level so the books in class were to easy for him. So we told the teacher to challenge him in class. She asked if we wanted to move him up a grade but we decided to keep him right where he is with kids his age for now. We will see how the rest of this tri goes and then see if we need to in fact move him up.

And then there is Isaiah he's still going to the Children's Center for pre-school and behavior therapy. He is liking being the only one who didn't "graduate" to kindergarten this summer, so he is the oldest kid in the class.The newest thing with him these days is that we had a physical therapy evaluation last month to see if we could correct his walking on his toes. And the therapist measured his Achilles and said that his heal muscle is not stretched out enough. That is why he walks on the toes and balls of his feet. Now I thought to my self another thing we need to tackle with him, oh great!! So this is what she said we do for that. First she sends all her patients who walk on their toes to the physiology clinic at Primary's to get an evaluation of their body as a whole. How all the parts work in conjunction with each other. And if the doctor feel in necessary they will inject his heals with botox, yes botox. That strengthen the muscle, as they can stretch out he heal. This is done with a series of casts that each last a week for three weeks followed by night splints to hold the heal in place and lots of physical therapy. Pros of the casts: It will help his heals so he can walk better, he won't trip over everything, and he will stand up straighter. Cons of the casts: You can't shower for a week so I have to sponge bathe him. You can't get sand or water in them and Isaiah loves both, and it might be hard for him to sleep with those on. In the end it all comes down to the fact that we have to do it now before it becomes a problem we can't correct. And they said there is a chance that this won't work or it's already not correctable with the casts and then it would be surgery. And we of course don't want that outcome but we will do what we have to to help him. So the evaluation is next week so we'll see what happens. It is so hard to watch you kid in pain or be helpless when they have to have surgery even to know that the pain is short lived for a better outcome. But it's more hard to watch your son sit out of playing with his friends because he can't keep up or he can't ride the bike fast enough. And I want so badly for him to feel like he's accepted by the other kids. He said to me the other day I used to like Eli but now Jamie is my best and only friend because she understands me. And as cute as that is it brakes my heart that he knows that he's different and other kids can see that about him. He amazes me every day how smart he is and how resilient he is to what others say about him.

And for Sariah we just celebrated her 1st birthday!! I can't believe my baby is one all ready. She got a walker toy that she loves to take outside and just cruise around with. She can take about 5 steps on her own right now so I'm confident that she'll start walking on no time. And her new favorite thing is to climb onto Isaiah's bed and play. And if you just look at her on there she giggles up a storm. It's the cutest thing ever! She is such a good little girl except that she on;y naps for about 1-2 hrs a day at the most. But I can't complain to much she does sleep through the night.

And as for me I just got a new calling in my ward. It's sort of compassionate service oriented but I guess you could just call me the Pregnancy Coordinator. I get the fun calling of making sure all the pregnant ladies in the ward are taken care of.( meals, help with cleaning, babysitting, ect.) We have at the moment 11 preggos in our ward and I'm sure that number is climbing. And with the mommies in school of hubbies in school. They need more help. And we have a lot who get really sick similar to me which is why I have this calling. I can sympathize with the best of them. Are you taking Zofran? If not I have and it works wonders for that all day sickness. So it's kind of fun because I can think of all the things that would have been nice while I was preggo and pass it to these mommies. On the flip side I also get to tackle the hard task of discussing infertility and depression that can go along with this. I have never had a miscarriage but I know that is is very common. More common than we think. I have several good friends who have gone through this and I can't even begin to imagine what that must have been like. And so I need to make sure that if that happens in the ward these families have the support they need. Because we are a student ward a lot are not from Utah or have family close by. And they need that support of a ward family through their difficult time. I'm sure I will learn a lot through this calling. I'm excited to dive right in and get started!!

So that's what is new with us right now. If you made it this far in my post thanks for sticking with me as I had a lot to update on. I think now that life is sort of settled down some what, I won't go that long between posts again.