Well I don't have much to report but here is a little overview.
Danton~ You can keep him in your prayers as he is interviewing with a company in Denver this week. He is applying for an EMT Postion. It is a very intense interview. He will have to run a 9 min mile, complete a weighted mile in 14 min, 10 min of continuous CPR, 200lb lift, and a 200lb asst lift up 35 stairs. He also has to repeat all the testing he just did. They are very stringent on there policies on alcohol and tobacco as well. I think he will do just fine but we aren't sure how many others are going to be trying to get the postition as well. He has to complete the physical part on Saturday and the testing part on Sunday. So if you remember you can think about him on those days!!!
School is going... He is done with the school part of his IV class on Thursday. He will have to log some clinical hours which need to be completed my mid December. My mom has volunteered herself for some practice poking anyone else...
Biology class is taking a lot of time that he really doesn't have but I personally think he is doing very well given all that is on his plate.
He starts his 3 week EKG class next weeek. That will probably be a little more intenese than the IV and require a bit more homework.
Rebecca~ Just when I had a routine down it all got changed with Averie moving to afternoon KG. It is coming around but not as quickly as I would like. If any one has some good kid ideas please feel free to pass them along. Fall and Winter are coming and we are going to be inside a lot more and could use some good forms of entertainment.
Averie~ She is absolutely loving her new class. When I ask her about her day and her most favorite part it is no longer reccess!!! It is the tests she took or the centers they get to do. What an answered prayer. Last Monday I went to her school for an orientation and recieved a great report from her teacher. She told me that Averie is a very smart little girl and that she loves that Averie keeps her on her toes.
Mrs. Pears has a reward system in her class where if you earn 5 tickets during the week you get to pick something from her treasure chest. Danton and I made an agreement with Averie that if she earned a treasure from school we would match it. She has been in the class 2 weeks and has recieved 2 matches!!! She asked for her matched treasures to come from Michaels a craft store in town or if we wanted we could give her real silver and gold treasure. I think you can guess we opted for the first option. We also told her that once she earned 4 treasures we would take her to Crack Pots, a place in town where you paint pottery. She is so excited about that and has already told her teacher what she is working for.
She absolutely loves to do art. She will color and draw for hours. She is very good and loves to use her "art" pencil to sktech and make books. She is learning to spell more and read more. Every week we go to the library and she picks out a few Chapter books. I enjoy our reading time every night before she goes to bed. And sometimes during the day if we can fit it in. She loves it when daddy doesn't have school at night and he lays with her and reads, I think she gets more than 1 or 2 chapters those nights... maybe that's why she enjoys it so much.
Mr Lincoln~ When your world changes so much in 1 year where do you begin on the new things he is doing? Who ever knew that 2 kids could be SO drastically different. I didn't. Averie is our serious child and Lincoln... well he is just funny!! He think he is so funny that he actually laughs at himself. You can sometimes get him laughing that he is actually giving a good belly laugh.
As you all know he is walking and starting this last week I think he thinks he is a runner as well. What a hoot. He loves to put things over his head and barrell forward as fast as he can. That may not show his brightest side, especially when he runs into things. He is eating more and will try anything once. As I have mentioned before he loves peaches. Only a few more weeks of those though )= He loves the extra kids at the house. He gets so excited to play with them and watch them play. He really loves his Papa. He loves his Nanny too, but Papa seems to be the winner of his affection lately. I think he knows what fun things await him in the shop!!!
Thank you mom and dad for coming over to watch the kiddos and GranDan for funding our date and night out together. They came so Danton and I could go out and celebrate out 10 year anniversary. An Italian restaurant was offering a date night special so we went and enjoyed some good food and good company while the kids enjoyed some good spoiling themselves!! Very fun and needed night out.
Well that is it and Happy Beginning to your week everyone!!!
