2010 Year in Review

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! Also in February we celebrated mine and Rob's birthdays.

March

Faith was busy at school in March. She went to Sylvan Learning Center for a
Dr. Suess event, went to 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 class on one of their last days of Kindergarten.

June

One of Faith's favorite summer activities is walking down by the river.
In June Faith also started summer school called Camp Edventure.

July

Our trip to Regina, Saskatchewan. Faith's favorite part of the
whole trip was going swimming in the hotel pool!

August

Another favorite summertime activity for Faith is going to the zoo.
Also in August, my little girl somehow became a first grader!

September

Faith gets an iPAD! She is also doing better than we expected attending
school full days. We also made the decision to give her a break from all therapies outside of school.

October

Faith celebrates her 7th birthday with friends at one of
her favorite places - Papa's Pumpkin Patch!

November

Stirring cookie dough instead of going stir crazy as November proves to
be a very cold, snowy month.

December

Faith and her family had a great year in 2010 and are expecting
more great things and many blessings in 2011. We pray you

and your family has a blessed New Year as well!

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Getting Used to Our New School Schedule

Today marks Faith's 8th day of school and we are all adjusting to a new schedule. Faith has made huge strides this past summer in sleeping better and having more energy so we decided to have her go to school from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. 5 days a week. This is a change as last year she did not go Tuesday and Thursday afternoons due to how tired and worn out she would get. Faith's first day of 4th grade School starts at 8:30 a.m. but we asked if it would be okay for us to get her there at 9:00 instead. This allows us to more time to get her first feeding into her before she even gets to school. Her aides noticed last year that when we brought her to school without any food in her tummy, she was pretty sluggish and tired upon arrival. Sometimes, after getting her to school she wouldn't start getting her feeding until after 9:00 a.m. which meant, that because she gets a feeding every 3 hours, her last feeding of the day didn't end until 10:00 p.m. Another advantage to

A Real Pain in the Arm

Last Wednesday I had my yearly doctor exam and when she said I should get my tetanus shot updated, I didn't think twice about it. The nurse said my arm would be sore for a couple of days, gave me a handout and stuck the needle in my arm. The next day my arm was sore and although I found it a little harder to pick up and carry Faith, I was glad the pain wasn't going to last long. Boy was I wrong! But not only was my arm sore, my whole body was. I felt achy and extremely tired. According to a medical site on the Internet, these were mild side effects of the Tetanus shot. If these were only mild side effects, I would really hate to have them at a moderate or severe level. On Friday, two days after getting the shot I felt so tired that I took a four hour nap after getting Faith off to school. Then on Saturday I took a three hour nap up until 7 o'clock but still felt tired and was able to go back to sleep around 10. On Sunday, finally the fatigue started wearing off and I didn

Goodbye to Our Special Tomato

Today we said goodbye to our Special Tomato adaptive car seat. And special it was. It helped Faith stay safe and secure in our Hyundai driving her back and forth to therapy appointments, shopping excursions and many other activities. It also helped us through our time of not being able to afford an accessible van. Like all adaptive equipment , the special car seat was expensive and although it is the law that a child is secured in a car seat while traveling in a vehicle, neither health insurance nor Medicaid would pay for it. Thankfully, we were able to receive funds from the fundraiser, the Great American Bike Race ( GABR ) which helps families pay for services and equipment that insurance doesn't cover for kids with cerebral palsy and related disabilities. After doing research on the Internet and talking to Faith's physical and occupational therapists, we decided to go for the Special Tomato adaptive car seat. You would think something with that name would be r

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