School's out for Summer!!

Well the school year is done. This last month NeVaeh had several activities. The spring program was in early May. She seemed like she enjoyed it and did participate in some of the actions of the music.

 

She had a couple field trips. One to a children's museum in Brookings which she really liked and one Bowling. I guess she really enjoyed watching the others bowl and when she tried she wanted to run after the ball down the lane. Then they turned the big light out and she got scared and just sat  back and watched the others. I got to go and watch their field day. She actually did some participating. It was cute. She especially liked the gunny sack race and the race that they were supposed to put their foot into the pool and fish out marbles. She however had in her mind to just get in the kiddie pool. Each of the kids took one turn at the pool but she went back 3 times. The third time her one on one had to hold her up as she was trying to get in with both feet and sit down LOL.  Keep in mind it was only the low 60's that day so it really wasn't swimming weather.

 NeVaeh is in a gunny sack jumping

 Crawling under the hurdles in the obstacle course.

 still working on the obstacle course

 at the pool in the red pants

 One more time running back to the group from the pool.

 putting her feet in the pool and more.......

running back to the group .... again.. She had do much fun!!

Thought I would share this little clip too. I caught of NeVaeh. She was having a chuckle out of watching her movie.......

We got NeVaeh a little Ipod for working with at home so we can do little things with educational apps like what she was doing in school. It was a bit cheaper that the Ipad but we will break down and buy one of them for her one day too.

Now its time for summer fun!

Hopefully it will be dry enough to get outside and play!!

We hope everyone else has a good summer too!!!!

Picture Day!

Took Miss muffet to get her pictures today. She did very well with them.

Only a little more than a month left of the school year left. Would be nice if we could actually see spring. Easter is on Sunday!! She has been healthy since my last post and doing well. Hope all has a Happy Easter!!

Here's our family picture taken in January at church.

NeVaeh's Seven

Fall off the couch game

We had some beautiful warm days in February and it melted much of our snow. NeVaeh is longing to beable to just run outside and play on her playset. This was a warm very foggy morning just before it turned very cold and Snowy again.

  NeVaeh's giving Activia a new antiwrinkle, antiaging challenge...LOL maybe she's on to something!!

 Lost one more tooth!

Pajama day at School!! Don't you wish You could go to school looking like that too?

NeVaeh created her own "fall of the couch game"

Wow can't believe February is almost done! NeVaeh has been well finally. She went through several days of having staring spells for 5-30 seconds at a time. The Neurologist and I believe that with her 12 days of watery stools her medication also run through her resulting in her blood levels to drop. She has been Seizure free for 3 years and we want to keep it that way but do question if what she was having were little seizures or something. Hopefully she's done.

She just keeps growing like a weed. She is 4 feet tall and 67 pounds. My little Baby isn't so little anymore. I am still struggling to decide what to get her for her birthday. She is a tough one to please. She loves things that make music and have lights. I hear parents complain about how annoying noisy toys are but that is what makes her happy so the more the merrier for her. Many of her toys are more for the toddler aged child but what makes NeVaeh Happy Makes me Happy. (I  think we need stock in Energizer) She is also very fond of her colorful knee socks. I think if I got her anything that would go into her swimming pool she would love it. She goes to adapted aquatics every 2 weeks for an hour. She will also wear her swim suit over her clothes at home so another new suite would probably be ok also even though we just bought her one. She loves the brightest and boldest colors. She wears size 10/12 now. She really loves Big bouncy balls, Many movies with Elmo, Blues Clues or Sesame street. don't know if the new Yogi Bear movie is out yet but something like that might interest her. She fell in love with Toy Story She has 1 and 3 so maybe she would like a Woody toy but please no more stuffed toys! She just throws them on the floor and spills stuff on them and they don't wash well. Unless they make noise She as a rule is not interested in them. She has many dolls and doesn't care for them either. There's a crazy toy made by Fisher Price called Sing-a ma-Jig that NeVaeh kept throwing in the cart at Walmart. She just loved them. Thats the kind of non-sence toys she love.Well Must sign off for now and Make supper.

Happy February

 Quiet My movie is Playing!!

Been a really cold 2011 so far. We have had several snow or cold days off. NeVaeh is just getting over a long stretch of some kind of gastrointestonal flue bug or something. she had 10 days of watery stools. Knock on wood. Its 1:00pm and none today so far. Hopefully its done. All the lab test came back normal and she's acting normal but what's coming out isn't. Poor kids is getting bad case of cabin fever. She will be over joyed to get back to school on Monday as long as her tummy behaves!

So exciting the school has purchased an IPad so they are trialing it with her and letting her get used to  using it . The ST said it will most likely take a couple years for her to actually use it functionally for communication but she is finally getting exposed to it and the new high tech programs. I understand it will take her a long time to actually know how to use it but she also has some nice programs downloaded on it to enhance her learning in school. Its pretty exciting.

We have to get her Valentines together for school so she can  take them next week also. Next month will be her Birthday. Hard to believe she will be 7 years old. So hard to figure out what to buy her. She is really a  difficult child to get something she actually likes. She likes certain movies and toys. Other toys just collect dust. Guess I will be trying to figure something fun out for  her. She loves things to enhance her sensory with music and lights. Just when I think I got something that she will love she doesn't touch it. She loved the Elmo microwave for Christmas.

 Joe sporting his beautiful winter coat!

 Protesting a movie malfunction.....LOL

Enough with the pictures already!!!!

Reminising

Thought I would reminisce from older pictures here's a movie from this summer of cousin Ruby and NeVaeh playing on NeVaeh's play set out in our back yard. (Ruby always trys to steal the spot light.)

Here's some pictures of her at the zoo this summer with one of her communication devices. Also some random older pictures of her since I am just getting started at this blog thing so I will show some pics of what she looked like when she was younger.

 Joe and Star. NeVaeh's UK Shetlands from the Personal Ponies organization. She loves her ponies!! 

 So cool. Shortly before she turned 3.

 She lovessss music. Uncle Paul is a very wonderful musician he can even make a toy keyboard sound great. She gives him all her attention!!

 Jumping in her trampoline for her last birthday. This is one of her favorite activities!!

 NeVaeh with her Hip Talk at the zoo in the stroller

 "Swim" In my back yard. Oh how she wishes summer came back. She has this picture in her talking photo album and shows us this picture all the time.

 Just before 3rd birthday. Pretty as a picture!!

Christmas this year

christmas break

 NeVaeh's all tucked in for the night. She's enjoying Christmas break kind of. It kind of puts her out of sinc when she's out of school and out of routine but she's doing ok. No behaviors or anything. By the end of the week hopefully she won't be fit to be tied. We will go out shopping tommorow to get her out of the house. Sometimes more of a challenge than one can imangine but she does enjoy it till stimulation overload. She has her Sweet Pea Mp3 player which keeps her calmer when we go out.  She is usally a happy go lucky young lady but she just likes her routine. Like daddy says every one has a bad day once in a while. Oh how I love my little angel! She is so smart she knows when she's had enough and will sign all done and if I know what's good for every one I must listen to her and get her out of the situation so she can de-escalate or else she does tend to melt down. How smart is she? I just need to listen to her How many kids can warn you before they are going to have a bad day? I will add some pics and vido from Christmas.