A Rough Start But Good End To The Week

So last Monday Devin had his evaluation with a psych intern at The Children's Center at 9 am in Murray(as when I made the appointment we didn't know we wouldn't be in Taylorsville anymore) so I arranged for my friend(and previous Relief Society President) to watch Elizabeth(who was thrilled to get to play with her nephew Oscar again!) then Devin and I went to the Children's Center.  When we arrived we were told that the gal Devin was supposed to see had called in sick and they didn't think they could fit him in anyone else schedule...but they could reschedule him with her for a couple MONTHS later!  I stood there speechless(and pretty irate, you mean I woke up super early, woke both my kids up super early, found a sitter for my daughter, packed both kids lunches, as it was expected to be a two hour appointment, drove all the way down there, and you can't fit him in again for A COUPLE MONTHS??!!!) Since I obviously couldn't yell at them what I was thinking I managed to mostly politely ask that if they have to reschedule him anyway could we go to the downtown Salt Lake office?  They left a message for the lady up there to give me a call, which she did a couple days later and he has another appointment for May 1st(pretty ridiculous if you ask me!)  Anyhow, since I knew Elizabeth would NOT be okay with me picking her up early, I went and parked in our condo parking lot and thinking I'd visit with one of my good friends there, I called to make sure she was home...which she wasn't but we had a good long talk on the phone.  I sure love that amazing lady!  Then Devin and I went and visited with another of our neighbors who was like a "condo grandma" to my kids, and had a really good visit with her as well, next time I'm definitely going to bring Elizabeth as they both really miss each other.  Then I picked Elizabeth up...of course visited with Maria for a bit then got the kids in the car with their lunches to eat on the way home. Tuesday Elizabeth had dance and tumbling again which is so nice to have her back into!  It helps her burn energy, socialize with other kids, and be in a class setting, all of which are things she really needs! For school I worked with Elizabeth on her "tens", counting by ten and identifying numbers to 100...she did AWESOME!!  We also worked on adding to ten, even adding numbers over ten together, and I was very impressed.  And for reading we worked on her scripture for primary which was Abraham 3:24-25, she read most of it by herself the first time through, I was impressed that she noticed that both spellings of there/their were in it.  And there were a few compound words we were able to work on and talk about as well.  Thursday after lessons she was just messing around in the living room and counting, I stopped and listened to her count higher and higher...she got all the way to 110 when she stopped dead, looked over at me with wide proud eyes and a big ole grin on her face and exclaimed "I COUNTED PAST ONE HUNDRED!!!!" I gave her some high fives and big hugs, we were both very proud of her!  For fun Friday I pulled out their tents and also a couple of tunnels and connected a tunnel to each of their tents, and they had tons of fun!!  Saturday morning my mom and I went to the Clearfield Library for their huge book sale.  I scored lots of fun books for the kids and to use in some of Elizabeth's school lessons, I got about 30(or more)books for $10.50!! My mom scored some great stuff too, books, books on cd, music cd's, even some dvd's!  Nothing was more than a dollar!!  She even got me some great lesson type books for school, thanks so much mom!!  After lunch while Devin was down for his nap, Tony and my dad put the new struts in the Aveo, and I went out to the DI to drop some stuff off and then went in and found a few new pairs of jeans(as all mine developed holes in unfortunate places) I wandered shirts and skirts and dresses as well but nothing really jumped out at me, so then I went to the yard area to check stuff out there, nothing great there either.  Then I perused the toys and found a stuffed Woody for a dollar...yay! Then I found a Thomas the Train pull toy for 75 cents.  Then I found a Disney princess fold up little castle that would make a great addition to her Little People castle, it too was only 75 cents.  Then I found a cute little baby doll and got a great idea...you see I've been wanting to get a boy baby doll for Devin(as he loves Elizabeth's dolls and it's good for him to learn how to be soft with babies) but finding one that isn't all girlie has proved pretty difficult...or expensive, so I found this very nice baby doll, went over to the infant section found a tiny boy onsie put it on the doll and for $2 I had a very cute boy baby doll!  Go me!  So I left the DI with LOTS of good stuff!  And the kids were way excited about them!  Saturday evening our friends the Michael and Kim came over for dinner, to visit and play a couple fun games of Ticket to Ride.  It was such a great night! We really enjoy their company, we always have such fun! Sunday(yesterday) Elizabeth was all excited to read the scripture in primary, in the morning before church she went upstairs and read it to her nana and papa, she had a hard time focusing but she still managed to read it for them.  As for in primary she got up to the *working* microphone and she was immediately enthralled with it and completely unfocused she started by pretending(quite silly)that she couldn't say Abraham, but eventually said it, she read a little bit, then I couldn't get her to even look at the paper she was too busy trying to eat the microphone or move it up and down...in the end it was all I could do to get her to repeat the words after me!  Oh my silly little girl...I can't help but laugh about it.  On a good note, Devin made it through Sacrament without having to go out once!  That NEVER happens....then he even made it through nursery without having to come to us once!  Go Devin!!  My mom gave the lesson in Relief Society and it was a great lesson too!  And that catches you up with us!

Devin in his cute BYU beanie

Dancing with each other...so sweet!

Fun Friday, tents and tunnels = lots of fun!

 Here is a fun video of the kids playing in the tents and tunnels