I Plan Things, Why?

So, I have this cute 3 year old... you might recall, this one right here.

And, you might recall that he had an appointment with Early Intervention and then a speech screening and that they basically said "close but you'll have to work with him at home." In light of that information, I planned to go ahead and have Karleigh start Kindergarten and then Rylan would stay home with me this coming school year and then we would have to find a preschool for the following year. The thought of another preschool search was a bit unnerving because I felt really good about Karleigh's preschool and then after several months, I discovered that it wasn't what she needed.

Back to what I was saying...

On Friday, Rylan and I had our appointment with the speech therapist and the school counselor to officially review his evaluation results and sign off on the findings. Turns out, silly planner, that he does qualify for speech therapy by one missed letter sound. Speech therapy qualifies him for the preschool program. I am, however, getting used to this new plan as it solves a few problems for me. I've been praying that finding the right preschool for him would be possible... not exactly the answer that I expected but I'm ready to embrace it. It should be interesting to see how the schedules work out but the school counselor did say that we should be able to get both Karleigh and Rylan on similar schedules. They won't ride the same bus, even if they are in school at the same time, although it's very possible that their classroom doors will only be 4 feet apart. Oh well!

This is just a big 'ol change in plans that I need to wrap my brain around. Had you asked me in January '08 what I thought my family was going to be doing and what it was going to look like in September '09 I think I would have sorrily missed reality... big time! I never would have guessed that "all" of my kids would be getting on a bus and going to school. Other than the little yuck in my tummy that I already had when thinking of sending just one off to school... not because I don't trust our public school because I really do, so far, I actually feel like this is probably the right thing for us.

Even though they are 21 months apart, they do seem to do everything together!

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Strange sighting for us... we were shopping yesterday at one of those cheap mega stores that I hate to admit to even shopping at but we decided to check there for life jackets and fishing poles for the kids and we saw another type of kid. No kidding... (how do you like that!?) we saw a woman in her truck with a goat on her lap.

A Goat!

Wearing a diaper!!!

I can't make this stuff up!

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My blogging has been slacking and the only thing I can blame is the beautiful weather! It's been incredible. Seriously, it's been more like July than May which is such a welcome change as it helps the attitude incredibly. It also helps bedtime around here. The kids are pretty much totally worn out by 6:30 or so that's been great! But, so am I.