Spring has sprung, and summer is in full swing! I thought I'd confuse y'all by posting something.
My children commenting, surely, on something I said:
That was at the local glasses lab - as in, where the guys grind you new lenses for 1/2 the cost that it costs from the regular shop, what with them being the lab and all. Nice place to have found since Ria's prescriptions are kinda going wacky. Progressing a bit too fast for anyone's comfort, but nothing much we can do about it. At this point we're planning to update her lenses 2x/year. We'll be seeing the opthamologist again in October. The main concern with progressive myopia is that it can be a sign of juvenile onset diabetes, but Ria shows no signs of diabetes (or the other rare conditions it can come with). She just has bad eyesight in her genes, we think.
Here's Ria at her preschool graduation ceremony! Kindergarten in the fall!!
She is, as I think I mentioned in an earlier post, going to be going to the local regular elementary school for Kindergarten, rather than the parent participation program that Iain is in (yep, I'll be shuttling kids to 2 different schools, in the land of no school buses). We tried her for an hour in Iain's school, and it was just way too distracting for her. It was clear that a more traditional classroom would work better for her. She's got an IEP, but its the most minimal IEP known to mankind. No aide or anything. We'll see how it goes. However, she's made a HUGE amount of progress in the last year with her aide at preschool, and in the last 4 months we've had 2 sort of cognitive growth spurts that make us hopeful that the jump in class size (12 in preschool, 25 in Kindergarten) won't blow up in our faces. She is really doing great! She's even starting to take herself to the toilet periodically (outside of the scheduled sitting pattern we have her on) as she can sometimes feel she needs to go, so the sensations are improving down there and we're having very few accidents!
Iain has gone the way of "mom's jaw, dad's teeth." Here's his new palate expander, which should be in for about 9 months or so before we get the actual braces to move things into place.
This spring style expander is a lot more gentle than the old "turn a key" thing, but has to be used at a younger age. If you need to expand the palate at the more typical braces age in the early teens, you still get the key style. The teeth that came in during the winter are kinda sideways, and they pushed one of his front teeth out forward quite a bit so its at risk for being cracked if he falls on his face. *sigh*. (Ria only has 2 of her "big" front teeth, and they're already worse than Iain's crooked teeth....it is TOUGH to keep those snaggle teeth clean!!!)
Big excitement of 2 weeks ago....Iain jumped off a diving board at swim lessons for the first time! Here he is in mid-air!
And here's Ria swimming with a noodle
Finally, the big excitement of LAST week was that Iain went to a week-long overnight camp! This was lovely YMCA Camp Campbell again, where he did the mini-camp last year. This picture is when we dropped him off (Ria was far more disconcerted than Iain!).
Apparently he had a bad bout of homesickness on Tuesday (after 2 nights, which was how long the mini camp was last year), but doing some archery fixed his mood, and he was fine for the rest of the week. He's home now and everything feels back to normal (messier and noisier).
