Monday, November 14, 2016

October and Early November!!

October was an awesome month filled with lots of fun!!

Making turkey crafts for Thanksgiving!!


Even Tyson posed for a cute picture with his turkey!


The kids cute turkey crafts!  I was so impressed with how well both of the kids did with the cutting!  Ty can actually cut all by himself now (maybe needs a bit of help staying on the line, but he can actually use the scissors very well!) And Courtney did so well with cutting!  Impressed!


Courtney reading her baby a bedtime story.  So adorable.


Over the Thanksgiving long weekend we actually got a huge dump of snow.  Ty was so excited!  I thought it was so cute that he set up his favorite stuffies to look out the window and watch the snow with him.


Playing in the snow!  So much fun!  The kids couldn't wait to get out there!


And it was great snowman building sticky snow too!


Running in the snow!  So much fun!


Ty loved watching the snowflakes falling.


Courtney loves to help Mommy in the kitchen!  Working hard making pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving dinner!


Playing with Gido at Thanksgiving dinner.


Playing with stickers with Grandma.


Playing in the snow again!


Ty loves to make silly faces in the selfie camera.


My happy boy!


Snuggles with Mommy.


Cute boy!


Court loves to play dress up and was so excited about her new boots and winter clothes.  I am always finding her in the back room trying on all of her outside clothes.  Such a cute girl!


Courtney dancing with Miss Reanna. So cute.


Courtney giving Tyson snuggles.


Court wanted to wear her big puffy tutu to dance class one day!  So cute!  And look at those awesome pointed toes!


So cute!


My sweet boy!  Love this little guy so much!


My parents got Ty a bike for his birthday and fortunately the weather in late October and early November has been amazing!  This is a picture from Ty's first bike ride!  Thanks to the awesome weather we have been going out on lots of bike rides and Ty is doing so well!  He can now do our entire little loop all by himself and he even lifts up his feet and just glides sometimes!  Big boy!  I am so proud of him! 


The kids and I also met up with my parents at servus place to take the kids skating.  They have the best little learning rink there!  Its awesome!  Court was very excited about going skating.....but was terrified of actually trying.....  She looks cute though!


Ty's first time skating!  He looks so cute in his new skates!  Big boy!


Ty did so great with skating and just loved it!  Gido took him on some super fast laps and he thought it was the most fun thing ever!


Going fast with Gido!


Then Ty started standing up on his own and doing his own steps!  Big boy!  I was so proud of him!  He loved it so much - he didn't want to stop going!


I even went out and skated with Ty for a bit too!


We finally just made court go out on the ice with gido.  She was terrified, but by the end of the lap she was laughing.  Classic Courtney - crying and laughing at the same time.  I'm glad we forced her to go, she needed to see that she would not fall and that she could literally keep her feet up and just go for a ride.


After skating we went and played in the indoor playground for a little bit.  Ty loved this too and had to make sure to try everything out.  Big boy!



Court loved it too - she was running around like crazy!  Fun morning!


My cute girl.


Taking advantage of every chance we can get to go for bike rides!  This weather has been absolutely insane - but i'll take it!


Crazy bath hair!


Crazy bath mohawk!


Pretty sure this was Nov 8 - and it was 20 degrees!  Whaaaat?!?  I'll take it!  My kids are loving bike rides right now and they are both getting so much stronger and more confident on their bikes/scooters!  Good job kids!


My gliding superstar!


So proud of this guy!  I can't believe how well he is doing with his bike and how much he is enjoying it!  He loves going on bike rides and will even ask to go on a "bike ride".  Great job buddy!


Making pizza for dinner!  I like when I can get the kids involved in cooking - and even though Ty doesn't eat it, its good for him to help (a little food therapy for ya).  Court loves it!  Super fun!


Taking advantage of every bike ride we can get in!


The kids and I met up with a friend at the park one morning.  Courtney and Ella are the sweetest girls!  They played so nice together.  It was so cute!


My dad gave me a bunch of my old books on tape and I gave them to Courtney to play with.  She loves them!  So cute!


I made Courtney's day and let her carry a basket at the grocery store - Court loves to play shopping and check-out so she was pretty excited!


I even let her use the self check-out!  Shopping for real - big deal!!




Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Super September!!

September has been a great month!  Ty has started back at school - 5 afternoons a week - and he is loving it!!  It has been so great!  He loves going every day and I love that he is playing, getting engaged, and getting therapy every day. It has been so good for him!  Ty has been especially "spongy" lately and has been repeating phrases and words from us a lot so I was very excited to get him back to school where he is just surrounded by language and they focus and work on this so much!  His teacher and therapists all noticed the difference from June - so that is great news!  Ty also has been approved for "specialized services" which basically just means more therapy. I now have a primary consultant who comes over to work with Ty on a regular basis.  Basically - he has the therapists come in and help us come up with some strategies and ideas and then he comes over to work with Ty on those things.  Its great to have a lot of support - its a lot sometimes - but its good.  Other than school and therapy for Ty, I have been trying to get the kids out to do fun things and enjoy the beautiful fall weather!!

Playing at the park on a beautiful afternoon! 


Court playing on the swings!


Some last scooter rides for the season!  Ty loves going on scooter rides.  Court has basically let Ty have her scooter and she will just walk with Mommy while Ty scoots.  


Ty drawing a cute picture all by himself!


Fun morning out at the rec center!  


Court playing on the toddler slides.


Court flying down the big slide!


Court playing princesses.


Courtney built an awesome lego house all by herself!  So cute!


First day of school 2016!  Ty was so excited!!


Such a cute boy!


Ty looked so cute with his backpack!


All ready to go!  I love this school so much, I never want to leave.  Can't they just open a private school for k-9??


Just the girls!!  We went out for some "back to school" ice cream!


Ty's teacher gave Courtney a balloon and it made her entire day.  She played with it all day!


Big throws!


So happy!


Happy girl!  Cute sunglasses!


Cute squishy face!


Another beautiful fall morning at the park!  It was such a gorgeous day!


Playing on the slides.


Ty loves the spiderweb at this park.  So cool!


Courtney loves to collect leaves, lots and lots of leaves!


Courtney sitting in the spiderweb!


We had a busy afternoon and Court needed a snack but only wanted a Popsicle - so we stopped for Slurpees instead!  She was pretty excited about her purple Slurpee!!


Post school snuggles with my sweet boy!


Ty is loving dinosaurs again lately and drew some of his favorites on the fence - a blue triceratops, a green pterodactyl, and an orange t-rex.


Ty was making his own people and animals out of his magnet blocks!  Good job buddy!


A triceratops!


Stegosaurus!


Court also started her Blossoming Ballerinas class! She was so so excited and it is the most adorable class!  I love it!  Very easy, casual and fun!  Perfect for her age!  Courtney loves her teacher, Miss Reanna.  This is really fun to do with her each week.


Practicing her arabesque in the studio!


A cold but fun park day!  My mom made the kids their cute hats!


Ty playing in the spiderweb!


Courtney loves her little cat hat!  It is so cute!  Love it!


We just had to get Court a little dance leotard!  So cute!!  I love it!  Court was very excited about it too!


Is there anything cuter than a 3 year old in dance leotard?!?


Courtney went on a very special date with her Gido to go skating for the first time!  Court has been telling us that Gido is going to take her skating for months - so she was pretty excited to finally get to go with him.  Court is also wearing my old skates from when I first learned to skate too!  So fun!!


Birthday dinner for my Mom and Dad's birthdays!  My parents got Court this adorable purse while they were in Italy!  Court is a little excited about it!  How cute is this picture!  I love it!


My mom also found my old piggy costume from my very first dance recital.  I LOVED this costume as a child.  I wore it all the time!  Court loves peppa pig, so she was pretty excited about it too!  So adorable!!  I love it!


It even has a cute curly tail!


Happy Birthday Mom and Dad!


Court playing in my old princess hat I got in Disneyland! So fun!


So cute!!


Court makes sure that I give her a fresh manicure and pedicure every week!