Hello! How are you? We are great! We are anxiously awaiting back to school. Kaelyn has her storm trooper backpack and we are waiting to get Aria hers. Things have fallen perfectly into place and we are able to send Aria to preschool! She is going to 3k at our church where Kaelyn also went for 3k. I can't wait for Mrs Tammy and the crew to welcome Aria to her first EVER day of school! And Kaelyn.... I am so TERRIFIED of sending her for the WHOLE DAY! We are currently looking into ways to get her to remember a lunch pin (number. Yes i know what PIN stands for. lol) and how to get pants without snaps and buttons so she can go to the bathroom on her own! This whole mainstreaming things has a way of raising my heart rate and stress levels! I hope there are kids there who "get" her. Who see her sweet smile and her silly attitude. Would it be so wrong to get another re-do of her friends J*? She was so sweet and Kaelyn had a fast friend before she even made it to school! Oh well, I am sure it will all come together, it's just the stress of the unknown. How will it go? Who will she get for a teacher? When will I get any information on Daisy Girl Scouts!? I am very excited for that. I think it will be a very good way to help her socially and make more friends in her peer groups. Plus, this momma was a girl scout. I can't wait for her to experience all of those things herself! Camp outs, earning badges, making friends, THE song about friends from girl scouts.... I'm just so exited. There are so many changes, and hopefully it all goes off without a hitch, but I am SURE we will get through any and all bumps in the road!
Aria is now BEGGING to get taller and older and lose her teeth because she saw the special gift Kaelyn got. She is begging to get bigger. She is so SURE that she is growing. She wakes up each morning and after her impromptu naps saying "Mom, Did I grow Big enough?" and I just want to squeeze her and tell her that she will BEG for the years back later. She wont want to be an adult and she will want time to slow down. Just like momma does now. But she is 3 and is convinced that she is Tip Tucci (from the movie "Home" ) and that she is one day (soon) going to have a red car named "Slushious" that will run off of 3 flavors of slushy and fly through the air.
We are also working on overnight potty training with Kaelyn. She sleeping in underwear (on a pee mat.) and we take her potty before bed and I set one alarm overnight (usually 2am-ish) to take her again. We've had some good success. 2 dry nights in the last week and all others were just damp or dribbles. Only ONE soaking wet night, and that was after the migraine from HADES evening and I was not waking up for that. I wasn't able to handle it. She is loving going to bed in her big girl undies. It was a really big blow to her and her moods when Aria finally got to wear underwear to bed. Her little sister, once again, beating her to the punch. But we are catching up. Aria sure pushes her further and harder than we ever could. And it works in the best of ways.
Anyhow, thanks for suffering through my rambling post. The summer is coming to an end and I'm mostly sure we have everything down pat. The only thing we are waiting for is preschool paperwork! And payday so we can finish our back to school shopping! Hopefully I can go to sleep now. I didn't realize it was 12:43 in the morning!!
Have a great day! I know we will!
All our love,
Momma and the girls.
*name changed. yep. didn't think to ask her momma! If you are reading this T, Whatcha say? lol
We are just beginning our lives with a beautiful daughter who was recently diagnosed with Partial Trisomy 21. Its not common, infact its pretty rare from what we were told, so we have NO Idea what the future holds for us. Hang on for the ride of our lives!
