Saturday, July 26, 2014
Lucca PT News
Lucca's physical therapy went well this past Friday. He's progressing with his head control and is about average on the spectrum for a child diagnosed with Down Syndrome. His head is a little lop sided since he prefers to sleep with his face facing to the right so we are on that now. He is also ready or more strenuous activity and has shown that he wants to keep wiggling and turning and moving around. Yea!
Monday, July 21, 2014
Zahra's First Day of Kindergarten!
Our little girl at her first day of school. What an amazing day she had! Zahra's been looking forward to this day for what seems like forever. Shannon took the day off to take her and pick her up. I get the rest of the duties starting on Wednesday. It was actually kind of normal seeing her at school since she has been there so many times. I was able to see her at lunch and get a great hug, though I did do the teacherly thing and place her back in her seat after she tried for a second hug without asking her teacher if she could leave her seat. And it's nice to have her at Hall Fletcher with an amazing teaching team. Heck our school even got a shout out on NPR!
Sunday, July 20, 2014
Seijezzali Summer of 2014
Here is the movie recap of a great summer.
Here is the written recap of our summer.
The Summer of 2014 was always going to be a short one. My school was switching to a year round, balanced calendar which meant that school would resume July 17th. I had five weeks with the family and we made sure to use all of the time to hang out. We had lots of visitors including my buddy Luis from my middle school days, Nick and Susie, Uncle Ted, Grammy Lanie and Abuelita, who is staying with us until Lucca begins Preschool (huge development for us, free child care for the boy that works with Shannon's new part time schedule at the city).
Days were mainly the same for most of the summer. Shannon would shove off to work at 8:00 leaving me with the kids. We would go out in the morning either on a walk around town, maybe hit Splashville or a park and stay active until noon. Then we would scamper home, have lunch, settle Lucca and Z down for some chill time, watch World Cup (which was amazing and fun for me, World Cup basically started and ended perfectly with my summer break), and then play some until Shannon arrived at 2:00. Then we would hang out together or I would run some errands until dinner arrived. Then we tried going on an afternoon walk of some sort. Finally it was the fun process of putting the kids to bed. Zahra was going down at her usual time but Lucca was another story. Some nights it wasn't until 10:00 P.M. when the little booger was out. And it being summer, I got to hang out with him late night to help Shannon along, but he did a good job of learning to sleep at night, even if that meant he'd crash our bed at some point and have his mother attached to him.
We took one big trip to DC to visit our friends, the Blacklows. We stayed with them for three days and enjoyed the National Mall and its museums and sites. We also did the National Zoo and Chinatown where we enjoyed some of the best dumplings ever. We stayed over in Harrisonburg both times on the way up and down and enjoyed pool time at the hotel. It was a much needed escape from Asheville but we were glad to be home.
We also entertained so many folks. The summer is a good time for us to reconnect with friends and we certainly did that. Along with the family and friends I mentioned above who spent time with us, we had several opportunities to meet with friends from the area we rarely see.
Summer's been over for us for a bit now. I began working in earnest July 10th and my mom's been here since the 12th. Zahra starts Kindergarten tomorrow and we are all stoked. Lucca will continue to have round the clock love from his Abuelita and his mom while Z and I toil away at school.
The summer was short and sweet, just like our little Lucca.
Here is the written recap of our summer.
The Summer of 2014 was always going to be a short one. My school was switching to a year round, balanced calendar which meant that school would resume July 17th. I had five weeks with the family and we made sure to use all of the time to hang out. We had lots of visitors including my buddy Luis from my middle school days, Nick and Susie, Uncle Ted, Grammy Lanie and Abuelita, who is staying with us until Lucca begins Preschool (huge development for us, free child care for the boy that works with Shannon's new part time schedule at the city).
Days were mainly the same for most of the summer. Shannon would shove off to work at 8:00 leaving me with the kids. We would go out in the morning either on a walk around town, maybe hit Splashville or a park and stay active until noon. Then we would scamper home, have lunch, settle Lucca and Z down for some chill time, watch World Cup (which was amazing and fun for me, World Cup basically started and ended perfectly with my summer break), and then play some until Shannon arrived at 2:00. Then we would hang out together or I would run some errands until dinner arrived. Then we tried going on an afternoon walk of some sort. Finally it was the fun process of putting the kids to bed. Zahra was going down at her usual time but Lucca was another story. Some nights it wasn't until 10:00 P.M. when the little booger was out. And it being summer, I got to hang out with him late night to help Shannon along, but he did a good job of learning to sleep at night, even if that meant he'd crash our bed at some point and have his mother attached to him.
We took one big trip to DC to visit our friends, the Blacklows. We stayed with them for three days and enjoyed the National Mall and its museums and sites. We also did the National Zoo and Chinatown where we enjoyed some of the best dumplings ever. We stayed over in Harrisonburg both times on the way up and down and enjoyed pool time at the hotel. It was a much needed escape from Asheville but we were glad to be home.
We also entertained so many folks. The summer is a good time for us to reconnect with friends and we certainly did that. Along with the family and friends I mentioned above who spent time with us, we had several opportunities to meet with friends from the area we rarely see.
Summer's been over for us for a bit now. I began working in earnest July 10th and my mom's been here since the 12th. Zahra starts Kindergarten tomorrow and we are all stoked. Lucca will continue to have round the clock love from his Abuelita and his mom while Z and I toil away at school.
The summer was short and sweet, just like our little Lucca.
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