Faith's Mom's Blog

January We spent a lot of time indoors to avoid the frigid winter temperatures. Faith is enjoying playing PlayStation 3 with her adaptable controller. February Talking to Rob's parents on the computer during the USA vs. Canada hockey preliminary game during the Winter Olympics. The USA beat Canada in a huge upset! It was also a birthday month for both of her parents.  March Faith was busy at school in March. She went to Sylvan Learning Center for a Dr. Suess event, Mandan for AgDay, and also had a school program. April  Part of our Easter celebration included Faith flying a kite for the first time! In April, we also participated once again in the Great American Bike Race with Faith's team, Faith's Fantastic Ten.  May If you look closely, you can see that Faith lost her first tooth! Also in May, Faith treated her me to a Mother's Day Spa in her classroom and she went bowling with her Kindergarten class. June One of Faith's favorite sum...

Christmas is over. The joyous holiday ends once again, just as it does every year. And now we will all try to catch up a little before celebrating the start of a New Year. The holidays continue the day after Christmas in Canada with Boxing Day. So, on Boxing Day we tried to communicate via Internet with Rob's parents and sister. Unfortunately, SKYPE no longer works for us, which we aren't sure why, so we resorted to using Yahoo Messenger.  It wasn't as good as SKYPE, but it did the trick. We got to see Grandmother and Grandfather, Auntie Johanna and even Joh's new cat, Ruby. When we asked Faith if she liked Ruby, she answered very honestly, "No I don't like that cat." We think she is partial to Joh's other cat, Lucy, whom Faith has actually met in person. Talking to Auntie Joh Also on Sunday, Rob had fun putting Faith's Toy Story 3 Train set together. Yes, I did say Rob had fun. Faith had only mild interest. She would rather play her new car...

Merry Christmas Daddy and Faith! This stocking was a gift from one of Faith's aides at school. It came as a kit so that Faith could create her own stocking. Isn't it adorable? It wouldn't be Christmas without our Happy Birthday Jesus Cupcakes! Let the gift opening begin! Faith opens her Toy Story 3 Lego Train set! Gifts from my dear Canadian in-laws! The impressive coffee gift basket Rob got from my parents! Spending our Christmas evening at some friends' house WE HOPE EVERYONE HAD A WONDERFUL AND BLESSED CHRISTMAS!!

This week has been quite the week with Faith missing three days of school due to being sick. She started getting sick on Sunday and didn't sleep well at all that night, so I kept her home on Monday. Tuesday she actually seemed to be getting better and I was hopeful about her going to school on Wednesday so she could take part in all of the pre-Christmas festivities at school. But Tuesday night was a horrible night for sleep and we both ended up sleeping until 11 the next morning to catch up. Yesterday I finally took her to the doctor and here she has not only a sinus infection but an ear infection as well. Poor girl! So of course, now I am kicking myself for not taking her in sooner. The thing with Faith though is that even though she is sick, she doesn't act sick. She's still smiley, still laughing and yelling, still her cheery self.  If I had a sinus infection and an ear infection, Lord knows I would be anything but cheery! And even when she just has a simple cold, she ...

We recently received Faith's report card of sorts called, "Annual Goals, Short-Term Objectives, and Periodic Review of Services." Which basically lets us know how Faith is doing with her therapies and special education/academics at school. These are the goals that we set up for her at the beginning of the year when we did her Individual Education Plan ( IEP ).   Getting ready for school   I was so happy to see that in each area, she is making " some progress ." In occupational therapy, they have been working on self-feeding. This has been a challenge for her as it involves fine motor skills. She does have high tone in her arms, so she has to work through that in order to bring the spoon directly to her mouth. Her therapist in this area says that Faith fatigues during this exercise, but that she is really motivated to work hard. One of our goals is for Faith to begin to read. I am so proud of her that she knows all of her letter sounds and at schoo...