Beauty Sleep

Well my lil man thinks he needs to "party" it up early in the am hours and then sleep when he should be up. Today he slept till 2pm just enough time for me to get him showered before the vision therapist came over, this was her first visit back for the school year and I couldn't let him be the stinky kid, lol. With all those zzzzz's he woke up in a very good mood. He is smiling, vocalizing, and even moving his arms and legs alittle. Of course this is all after I told Deb (vision therapist) that he has lost alot of what he had started to "get" from therapy last school year and the most evident lose is alot of his purposeful movement. Not sure if that is due to the ITB pump or the amount of seizures he has had this summer. I know the biggies can "wipe the slate clean" and he would need to relearn most things. But I will take him proving me wrong when he does all the good stuff! Tomorrow Danny is going to meet his new Speech therapist as she wasn't able to come at last weeks therapy. So it should be interesting to see his reactions as both the teacher and speech therapist tomorrow are new. Danny tends to be on the more reserved side when it comes to new people, again he'll probablyt prove me wrong, but I'm ok with that.
Of course after I took his pictures the other day he was smiling from ear to ear for his dad, ARGH! Well his is handsome either way smiling or not.
It's ours, FINALLY. We closed on the land early this morning. Tomorrow the contractor is going to pull permits and then their off in making our Dream Home come true.
Dan did very well at the races yesterday. They are now racing on Sundays. He is going to Michigan for a big end of the season race this week. So no racing this weekend here, but I think he has one more Sunday left and then racing at WIR is done for season. He will be gone for 5 days racing in Michigan so I hope he does well and has a fun time with some of the other racing guys. I will keep you posted on his results.
Finally the weather has started to cheer up alittle. Thanks to IKE!! Amazing how we here in WI still can get bits and pieces of it's leftovers. Unbelievable how must destruction can occur. This week is suppose to be wonderful weather wise so I'm hoping we can spend most of the days outside enjoying the fall days before the snow comes knowcking on our doors, yuck! Take care

Busy, Busy

Wow I haven't posted in a few days. Well Sunday I realized that this week is the start of our "normal" schedule. Which means I will have someone coming into my home at least once a day to do therapy with Danny or I'm running either kid here or there for other activities. So I got this wild hair up my butt to tear apart the house, clean it, decorate it for the fall, and put it back together. NUTS!!!! Well it got all done Monday night (what a way to spend your anniversary, hu?) It's done and I feel better about having people coming over when the house has had a "BIG" clean. I love this time a year! The weather is cooler and for Danny that's that bomb, plus I have people coming over so I can have some "adult" conversation (I know that are here for Danny, but they are emotional therapy for me as well), and the oven comes out of hibernation and watch out. I love to bake and cook so I'm always doing something in the kitchen not only does it mean nice warm meals but my house smells awesome. Pumpkin cheesecake here I come, heehee! I love this weather!!! Tonight my family is getting together to celebrate the birthdays of September, we did have it planned for Labor Day but schedules didn't allow that to happen. Pizza, beer, and birthday cake, now isn't that any great way to celebrate. Yes in one more week I will be turning another year old, ARGH!
Danny got to meet his new teacher yesterday along with PT Dan. I'm so glad that Dan is back with Therapy as Danny really seems interested when he's around so with the new teacher being a male maybe we will get the same response. I hope! OT is coming out today, swim starts on Monday, and I haven't meet the new speech therapist yet but she and the teacher will be coming out on Tuesdays. PT with Dan is on Fridays and through the hospital I have it once a week when it allows. That's just Danny!! Avrianna and I do school work about 2 hours of sit down a day, then projects, she has swim on Thursdays, and Pioneer Club on Wednesdays. She would like to start dance again but not finding it in the schedule, I'm sure I will make something work.
Next week they start breaking ground on the new house and I can't tell you how excited I am! I will be going out to take pictures of the "land" and then keep going as the project is under way so I have a picture diary of all that is going on. I just got done planning a meet and greet party with all the contractors working on our "Dream" home so I can personally thank them before we get too far into it. I will post pictures so you can see how things are going too.
Please still keep Reese in your thoughts as she is still fighting! Her family is going through a very rough time so stop in their web page (link is on the left) and give them some words of comfort.
To leave comments on their page as well as this one you click on the comment link under each post (as it's alittle different then the CB site we had) So you can post that you stop by in our guestbook on top or reply/comment to each post.
Hope you are all doing well. Take care! Oh yeah go into Danny's equipment link (on the left) I have added new photos of his stuff (bipap, lift, mickey button & pump)

The Bug

Danny continues to be very congested and cries alot. Poor thing just can't breathe very well with being stuffy. He has started a fever so hoping it's just do to the extra effort with breathing not an infection. We are monitoring it close. We were to go to the Kimberly Roller Skating Rink tonight with our support group families but not too sure we are going to go now with Danny not bouncing back well. Maybe today he will have a better day, but it's not looking to promising.
Avrianna's color is back and I think she has gotten rid of the bug. I can only hope they don't decide to pass this thing back and forth now! She is back full tilt into her schooling, as we gave her a vacation from it when we were on the road. I have her signed up for some programs this fall thru the Rec Dept here that I think she is really going to enjoy, drama, art projects, and her favorite the Daddy Daughter formal Dance in the winter. Swimming will start up again soon so she'll be back in the water before she knows it.
Dan is off racing today (as long as the weather holds off). Boy this year has been a difficult one with racing and the weather. I spent all afternoon yesterday putting the decals on the car of all the sponsors for him and his racing. I will try and post pictures of the car all done up soon. These are old picture of the car and one of the times the kids went to the races.
Last night I had a girls night out and it was great. We went to a local park and watched Boogie and the YoYo's play again. Yeap I'm starting to become a groupie. They are awesome! I even bought a T-shirt and CD and will try to get the band to sign them.
Well it's FINALLY official........WE HAVE LAND!! After 1.5 years of deligently looking for the perfect spot to put our forever home on we have it. We are staying in the school district so Danny's therapist can still work with him and we are going to by a subdivision so we will still of the space of our acres and yet near children for the kids to make friends. I am so excited. We are planning on starting the digging in the next couple weeks. A HUGE THANK YOU to the best real estate agent ever, WOODY! She put up with us for so long and never gave up on making our home have an awesome spot. Or home is still on schedule to be in the Fall 2009 parade of homes here in the area so it's about 1 year away before we'll be able to move in, but time will just flying by.