This week is like no other week...

Oh. My. Goodness. My little first born child is starting PRE-SCHOOL tomorrow morning! I don't know how I feel about that. It's kind of shocking. It's kind of scary. I don't know if I want him to go. Ryan also turns 3 on Wednesday. It's kind of shocking... and scary. I don't know if I want him to grow up. Man, this week is going to be hard.

I asked Troy to give Ryan a father's blessing tonight before he went to bed because of all the things Ryan is doing for himself. Ryan is making some definite improvements already and I'm really proud of him. He's starting to say, "All done" and "What'd you do?" That is much better than saying one word phrases all the time.

As for Benjamin... he's turning 1 this week too! Please, someone needs to hand me a tissue. I'm going to need one this week.

We're trying to get some pictures of the boys this week and hopefully we'll all get a family photo. I'll post them when we get them done!

Ohhh boy! What a day!

Troy and I had an appointment today to find out Ryan's test scores to see if he has Autism. Well, we found out that he does have it. But, it's very very high functioning Autism.

I'm ok with the news... I kind of expected it but it's still kind of hard to see it written down on professional paper.

Hello Everyone!

Troy and I decided to move my posting to Blogger. I have been using Xanga for the past couple of years and I decided to make a change. Hopefully, Blogger will be good for me and I will be happy with it!

Here is my latest entry I just made today in my Xanga site...

I'm here! I really am!

I’m sad that I haven’t even updated at all during the month of April! It’s always the best month for me because of my birthday but I guess this year, it’s been a little stressful. I guess the best reason to blame my absence is the fact that I found a new hobby of cross stitching. I have been cross stitching since the end of last year but my MIL taught me how to do it correctly! I like the results MUCH better! Right now I am stitching a scripture I found in Moroni. It says, “Come unto Christ and be perfected in Him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness.” It’s a really great project and I love working on it every chance I get… hence the last of entries this month. I’ll take a picture of it after I’m all finished. I have one more line and then I have to work on the detailed border, so I might be a while. We’ll see.

So, all 3 of our birthdays are coming up! Next week is the boys and the following is mine. I’m hoping that we’ll have a party next week for both the boys. I better get busy planning that party huh?! I haven’t done anything!! I’ve been overwhelmed with different stuff and then yesterday, I got hit with the cold! The boys did get an early present from Grandma!!

Thanks Sara!!! I love them! I’m really hoping that we can go get their pictures done somewhere!

Benjamin is doing well these days too. The only thing going on with him is the fact that he’s teething some more. He now has 10 teeth!! These seem to be a little painful so he’s been a little grouchy lately. I’m glad that this will pass soon!

Ryan’s music therapy is going really well, thankfully. Here he is listening to his music…

We’ve only had one problem with him and the headphones… that was his FIRST time. Now, he just sits and listens to the music. I’m doing the program too and it’s nice and relaxing. All you hear is the music and then you hear birds chirping in the background or over your shoulder. It’s surround sound and it has high and low frequencies that work the inner ear muscles. We’re on week 3 and we have 17 more weeks to go! Hooray!

These last pictures are of Ryan and Grandpa at a little duck pond. Since the weather is warming up, grandpa is getting a kick out of taking Ryan to see the ducks and feeding them.