Kindergarten Milestone

Wow.  What a day.  We started the morning with Ariana breaking Aedan's glasses right before the 1st day of school.  Then, we were double checking the school supplies and discovered that we didn't get the folders.  No problem there because Amma came to the rescue.  We went to Fred Meyer and got Aedan some super cute "Superhero" shoes.  He was so excited.  He is in a size 1 youth shoe!  OMG this kid is growing faster than I can blink.  I can't believe how big he has gotten.
After Fred Meyer, we went to Kindergarten orientation where we discovered that they had made a mistake and placed Aedan in the morning kindergarten instead of the afternoon class.  Herein lies the dilemma:  We requested afternoon kindergarten at the spring registration because he has occupational and physical therapy in the mornings.  The teacher we were going to have quit after Luna's Laws were passed.  Surprise surprise.  So many of them did.  We looked to waiver him in the school he had for preschool, but the awesome kindergarten teacher there also quit.  Throwing our hands in the air, we had to let the fates take charge.
The replacement teacher moved from 4th grade to kindergarten, which is ok, but we have already dealt with that extreme learning curve once and didn't really want to do it again.  One of the staff in the front office is a friend of my mom's and knowing how I felt about that after the last couple of years of preschool, she automatically switched him to the other teacher.  Unfortunately, the other teacher decided to go to part time and teach only morning session.  That all happened over the summer.
Well, we went to orientation today and discovered that he was in the morning class, they can't switch him to the afternoon class because the school has 20 kids over the limit that they are going to have to bus to another school and all of the classes are full.  So, while Nathan sat in orientation and cut out flash cards and Aedan went to his first class, I went about changing his therapies around.  I spent an interesting hour on the phone with his therapists and we were FINALLY able to get it worked out.  So we have the teacher we want, but we do not have good times for therapy.
There is always some give and take in this world and Aedan was so excited for his school.  He seemed to like his teacher and they both liked him.  He noted that his name was spelled wrong, immediately and told them how it was really spelled.  Unfortunately, this wasn't an oversight by the teacher, it was how the office staff spelled it when they sent his name down to the teacher.  I will never understand how people can have 25 or more pieces of paper, shot records, a social security card, and a birth certificate ALL with the correct spelling of a person's name and still manage to misspell the name.  That is just plain lazy and inefficient, in my opinion.  I am glad he can spell his own name and correct it himself.  He has grown up so much and overall the day has been great.  I think tomorrow might be interesting because Ariana will be sad that he is gone, but the both will get used to it.

Whew!

Well, now that I have figured out how to get back on my blog, I will add the next entry!
Last week we drove to Boise for Aedan's follow-up with the pulmonologist.  We drove for 5 hours (yes 5 hours with the ridiculous construction zones that were not actively worked on.) for a whopping 15 minute appointment.  It was FANTASTIC!  His lungs are good, his CPAP is working, he is sleeping through the night and we do not have to go back for a year!  Woohoo!
The rest of the weekend was spent with my brother, sister-in-law, nieces and nephew.  We had a ball.  It was a pretty mellow weekend, playing Yahtzee with Aaron and Leah, going to a boring meeting for Kaitlin's volleyball, and checking out Audrey's awesome bedroom wall she is working on.  She has created street art on her wall.  It is currently a work in progress, but will be fantastic when it is done.  (Thanks for letting us take your room over for the weekend, Audrey.)  Kaitlin drove Aedan and I all over the place on Friday so we could buy his school clothes and it was great to have a chauffeur for the day.  (Thanks Kaitlin.)  The cool thing is that my kids look up to their cousins so much and their cousins are so great with them.  They are more than willing to jump on the trampoline, play video games, play cars, play tag, chase the baby, watch kid movies and generally help keep them occupied.  My kids in turn, follow them all over, hug them, kiss them, sit in their laps and laugh or giggle at almost everything the cousins do.  It is hilarious.
To end our fabulous weekend away, we came home and went to Nathan's cousin's twins birthday party.  They turned 2 and had a monkey birthday!  Our kids wore themselves out playing outside with the other family.  I am consistently amazed at how lucky we are and coming home from a weekend like that adjusted my attitude to where it needed to be.

Introduction

Since I am new to blogging, I will just try an introduction.  I am Amanda, wife to Nathan and mom of Aedan and Ariana.  Currently we live in Idaho Falls.  Aedan is 5 and Ariana is 18 months.  Now, that wasn't so bad.  I know I will think of more things to write later but for now, th-th-th-that's all folks!