Abby's Road

Tuesday, September 03, 2013

David

David is in Early Childhood Pre-K at Greenwich again this year. It is for preschool aged children who have delays in one or more areas. Age wise he could have started K, but we did not feel he was ready so we got permission for him to attend the Special Ed Pre-K for one more year. My preference would be for 2 more years but I don't think anyone would agree to that. He is developmentally like a 3 year old.

He started speech and language therapy at WSU this week. He will be going twice/week. Today was his first day. He did not want me to leave him in the therapy room, he tried to attach himself to my arm, and then his lip quivered. Poor guy! He had fun once they started though. I think next time will be easier. They wanted me on the observation side, so he wouldn't be distracted by my presence in the room. I watched and listened through a mirrored wall. Ellie was with me, and she was very well behaved for the hour of David's speech therapy. (Thank you iPod.)

I haven't posted many photos of him lately so here are a few-

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Ellie's first day of preschool!

This morning Ellie started preschool!

She has been very excited to start preschool. Once we got there though, she got scared and said "I changed my mind, I want to go home with you, mommy!" I almost cried, but I didn't because that would have made her upset.

One of her wonderful teachers picked her up and hugged her, and then distracted her with playdoh. I gave Ellie a kiss and told her I would be back soon to pick her up.

I can't believe it's already time for Ellie to start preschool. I remember Abby's first day like it was yesterday. :)

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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Vacation

We went on a family camping vacation to Colorado at the end of July. On our drive home, shortly after we left the mountains, a tire popped on our Excursion, and we lost control and rolled the truck and camper. The kids were not injured, Jeff had a sore back and a few bumps, and I was taken to the ER for x-rays and scans for neck pain that turned out to just be whiplash, neck/back strain, and lots of bruises, scratches, and bumps. No broken bones or stitches! I'm still waiting for one last big lump on my head to heal, but otherwise I'm feeling much better physically. My neck and back get tired and aches by the end of the day but I'm feeling SO much better than I did at first. At first I could hardly move.

We praise God for protecting us! The last thing I remember before we rolled was praying "God help us".

Lots of kind strangers stopped to help when we wrecked. A nice young man crawled into the wrecked Excursion to unfasten Ellie & pull her out. Jeff crawled out remarkably fast and then pulled David and Abby out. Abby had unhooked her own seatbelt, but then she got tangled a little and wasn't sure which way to crawl to get out. My husband's brother Ryan was the one who helped me get out of the wreckage. A woman whose face I never got to see (my glasses were lost) gave me water, and another man with EMS training helped me while we waited for an ambulance, to make sure I didn't aggravate any potential injuries (since I had neck pain, the fear was spinal injury.)

We are very lucky David didn't get more injured, because only 5-10 minutes before the crash, I turned back and saw that he had slipped his car seatbelt straps off. I corrected him and he put them back on. I was looking at 5 PT harness carseats for big kids on Amazon on my phone when we wrecked. Seriously!

Jeff showed the ER staff a few photos that family texted to us, and they said "This is NOT how a crash like this usually ends. Someone was watching out for your family."

Here are a few photos of the crash-

Photos from vacation BEFORE the crash-

Abby started 2nd grade last week:

David started his second year at Early Childhood Preschool at Greenwich. Ellie is starting preschool at our church in September.

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