It has been a busy couple of weeks around here.

This week, Mason began going to Early Childhood Special Education in Blackwater. He goes Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons from 1-3:30 p.m. I took him Thursday afternoon and he had a rough time. He was just plum worn out from the entire week. He cried most of the day. (I stayed the entire time with him). He is expected to know and do a lot. I just hope we are not setting him up to fail. He is so timid and hates change. I just don't want to push him. Kevin and I plan on giving it another week to see how he does and then re-evaluate what we want to do for sure. Mason is doing GREAT at preschool at Immanual Lutheran. He goes Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 8-11. He didn't cry at all when I dropped him off Thursday morning, in fact, he was smiling! This made me feel so good. He loves Ms. Gerhardt. She has been such a blessing! He loves the playground at school too! Mason continues to go to speech therapy at Boone Outpatient Rehab once a week. His ST is wonderful. Chesney has really made so much progress with Mason. We are very thankful for being able to work with her. So, as you can see, our schedule is full of taking Mason to two preschools and speech!

Mason will have outpatient dental surgery on October 22. This will be done on his cleft effected side. When his teeth came in, the enamal never developed over those teeth, leaving them proned to decay. He is going to have two baby teeth extracted, a couple of teeth capped and a nerve on one of the teeth worked on. He will be put under general anesthesia for this. We always knew he would have to have some type of surgery done at some point, but after his last appointment with Dr. Stine on September 8, it was found that it needs to be done sooner than later!

Reagan continues to grow by leaps and bounds. She is saying more and more every day. She says, Dexter, book, Da-da, juice. She has healed from her little trip off of the kitchen chair. Her bruise is gone, and lo and behold, she is back to climbing on furniture and the kitchen table, much to our dismay. She is standing by herself but is still not taking steps without holding on to something. She is much more content to crawl to where she needs to go, which is usually to me.

Lately, I have been sorting through items for our garage sale we will have next weekend. I have also been sick this week, with the flu/silent migrane. I am still working a couple of days a week and when time allows.

Kevin catered the meat for a wedding today. He smoked beef and pork for about 350 people. The house has smelled like smoke for the last two days. It isn't a bad thing though!