STARS

Gabriel is attending hippotherapy, a fancy term for horse therapy, at STARS. He did a GREAT job at his first night. Andrew took him and said that Gabriel was attentive and assertive with his horse. I'm thrilled that he enjoys it and gets something great out of it as well. I hope this will be the start of an interest for him. We aren't discouraging sports but we hope for different interests since he won't be allowed to play contact sports when he's older. The joys of heart conditions and parenting. Every day since Wednesday, he has asked if it's time to ride the horse again.

15 wedded years

On March 29, we celebrated 15 years of marriage. 50 roses arrived at our front door for me. They are gorgeous! It doesn't seem like we were married 15 years ago - I don't feel like I could have made such an important choice 15 years ago. Yet I think about everything Andrew and I have accomplished and experienced together and seems like it's been many more years. When we spent the evening cleaning our home together, it was apparent that we are the parents of three young children.

I love my husband and hope we celebrate several more decades together.

Waterpark

Andrew attended a conference in Des Moines at the same times the boys had off school for parent-teacher conferences. We were able to stay at the Ramada Tropics. It has an indoor water park and the kids LOVE it. After Alex sunk to the bottom of the hot tub last time, I am a super freak about water safety. They all wore floaty suits which was my back up in case I lost track of someone for even a second.
We spent hours playing in the water park and created some fun family memories.
Friday morning, I took the kids to breakfast by myself. I don't enjoy taking all three of my children to a restaurant alone. I end up eating my food too fast while trying to keep them entertained and quiet. At one point, Alex talked about the pirate ship in the water park. Unfortunately, he can't pronounce ship correctly and screamed, "SHIT" as loud as he could... how embarrassing.

Piggy Tales

Lane's hair is finally long enough for piggy tales. She is 20 months old and sporting her new hair style. She doesn't sit still for long so having even pig tails is out of the questions. Lane admires herself in the mirror when it's done though.

Lane in a tunnel

I rarely take the kids to the mall play area. It just isn't "my thing." However, we went to a play date at the mall to celebrate a friend's birthday. Lane absolutely loved playing on the equipment there. She especially liked the tunnel. Our friend captured this photo of her - I think it's precious.

Audiologist

This is a photo of Laney waiting patiently for the pediatrician for over 45 minutes.

Lane is taking her time with her vocabulary. Her AEA OT and home teacher suggested taking her to the audiologist. I've been through this before with Gabriel and while I don't look forward to it, I don't mind going either. Unfortunately, Lane failed all three tests indicating a minor hearing loss. The audiologist thought her ear looked red so I was instructed to take her to the pediatrician for a follow-up and then go back after she was cleared medically. One big positive about living in a small city is that I can get into the pediatrician's office quickly on most days. Later in the afternoon, I took her to the Dr who determined that she did not have an ear infection or fluid in her ear. Her ear drums aren't responding appropriately. We have to take her to the ENT to see if more is going on with her hearing than an ear infection.