Adoption, Brookfield Zoo, School, The Puneys

I forgot to update everyone on Kiegan's adoption process in my last blog! Things are moving along fairly smoothly. Shannon has signed everything he needs to sign which was probably the biggest hurdle so now we (Travis, Kiegan & I) go to court on September 16th and hopefully that will be the final step!

I also forgot to mention our trip to Brookfield Zoo a couple of weekends ago! We all had such a good time!! It's not always easy taking all 4 of the kids to places, but we had such a great time and were with such good friends. I think the favorite thing to watch was the underwater exhibits - very cool! It was a great way to end the summer....

Last night was open house at Kiegan's school - his classroom is very nice and his teacher seems great! What's even more cool is that we can log on to this particular website to get the kid's grades any time we want to. I love that!! No more trying to keep track on my own how their grades are or waiting until report card time. The Jr. High's open house is tomorrow night....

This week has been a rough one for Lexi! She woke up Monday morning with a fever and it just went downhill from there. I closed the daycare Monday and took her to the doctor - she had a high fever, back pain, ear ache and sore throat. Doc prescribed an antibiotic for her, but as the day went on she got worse and her temp was as high as 104. I called Doc at home and he suggested taking her to the ER. When I got her there, they tested her urine and took some blood. They never really found anything and the cultures they got back on the blood and urine just showed that she was in the early stages of a urinary tract infection. As of today her fever is gone and her only complaint is a sore throat so back to school she goes! Kind of a bummer to miss 3 days on the first full week of school........

Tonight I go sign the kids up for CCD....this is one of those weeks where we have something going on every single night. But the countdown is on for me, Travis & Maddie to leave for Ohio!!

Daddy's Not-So-Little Girl!

Ha ha - how can you NOT smile at this picture?! The cheeks crack me up...

School Time!

It's hard to believe that the summer is over and school is back in session! Lexi & Kiegan started at the public schools yesterday for 1/2 day. They both came home with big smiles on their faces and Lexi even said that her day was "awesome". I can't tell you how happy I was to hear that come out of her mouth! Today was their first full day and they had school pictures (yep - school pictures on the first full day of school). They both came home and immediately started on homework. The public schools so far are proving to be so much more on top of things - especially when it comes to the kids using their assignment notebooks. I had sent Kiegan's teacher an email earlier this week just giving her a heads up on Kiegan's situation with the adoption (more on that later) and also his learning issues. She ended up calling me after school today to tell me how much she appreciated me sending her that email and to let me know what a joy Kiegan has been so far and how he's been volunteering to help out with all sorts of things in the classroom. The best so far has been Lexi's attitude towards the Jr. High - she has really stepped things up and is taking her responsibility for her classes very seriously which I just love! (If only she'd improve her attitude here at home......)

Maddie is doing GREAT! She has 4 teeth now - two on top and two on bottom. The only problem is that the two on the top are not the two front ones! She has one top front tooth and then there's a space where her other top tooth will eventually be and then there's another tooth. Of course she's still cute as can be!! She did finally crawl today! She's not a full-blown crawler, but she's definitely started. She can eventually make her way from the living room to the dining room. The daycare kids don't quite know what to think of her playing with their toys!

Speaking of daycare - that's busy as usual! I did have a new infant start this week - he's not quite 4 months yet. He's cute as can be, but for some reason mom decided to not bother getting him use to bottles so when he started coming here was when he started drinking out of bottles. The first couple of days were rough, but they are getting much better! I'm currently looking into getting accredited. This will help me to qualify for different grants that I can use towards improvements on the house or new playground equipment outside. It's quite the process and quite expensive, but there's a group that will help home daycares pay for accreditation.

Overall, we're busy as usual with very few weekends of nothing going on. I've been TRYING to go to Mass every weekend - sometimes sleeping in overrules it though. :o) The kids start CCD next month since they no longer go to St. Mary's. They're not really looking forward to that! I register them for it next week on Wednesday plus we have Open Houses for each of their schools - one on Tuesday and the other Thursday - both of which I have to get to early to help with the PTO booths. Next Friday I'm having an Uppercase Living home party at the house, Saturday is a bridal shower and Sunday is Maddie's Baptism! A week from then we leave for Ohio - it'll be nice to get away for a week!

I don't have any pics at the moment to share.....I hope everyone has a GREAT weekend!

August already?!

It's hard to believe that the kids will be starting school in just two short weeks! I think they're both excited to start at their new schools (even though neither of them will admit it). I've been filling Lexi in on some of the clubs that the Jr. High has and she is so pumped about the Art Club! Considering how not-so-well the softball tryouts went, I'm a-thinkin' that clubs may be the way for her to go which is fine by me. I just hope she sees the switch to the Jr. High as a whole new start for her..... Kiegan has decided for sure that he doesn't want to do JFL which is fine with us. We had him try the JFL Camp a few weeks ago just to get an idea of what it would be like and I think he enjoyed, but it's just not for him. I'm glad he tried it though - it was worth the $$ for him to just check things out without signing him up for JFL and then have him decide he didn't like it! Some kids just aren't into sports and I think mine might fit in that group....

I'm enjoying my last couple of easy weeks with the daycare. Once school starts up, I won't have a single slow day till the weekends hit! I'm not complaining though - I just wish I could help every single person that contacted me needing daycare. I got 2 more emails last week and then another one over the weekend. Maybe this is a sign that I need to open my own daycare building in town?? :o)

I have a training this Saturday to go towards my yearly DCFS hours I have to get. Hopefully it'll be interesting - it's only from 9-Noon so at least it won't take up my whole day. Sunday is a Sancken family reunion in town Pontiac. So we have a busy weekend, but not too busy which is nice! Next month Travis, Maddie and I leave for Eldora Speedway in Ohio - it'll be nice to get away for a week or so!

Enjoy some pics of Maddie! Maybe someday I'll take pics of the older 3 - they're just not as exciting! :o)

Playing Nintendo DS already.....

So close to crawling!!

Look at me mom!