2012 First Quarter!

March

We celebrated B H's birthday with a lego party! I got most of the ideas from pinterest--which I either modified or followed exactly. One had pre-made the lego figure faces, but I thought it would be more fun for the boys to make their own plates. Then I taped a mini-figure outline on the cups for decor. I also printed up the lego box where they took home their prizes!

The boys first decorated their "lego" character. They also made their own mini-figures from our vast supply of mini-figures. Then they got to build!

Mike set up a ramp for the lego race. Each boy made their own lego car, then we raced it! They had so much fun just building, that I finally set a time so we would have time to eat cake and pizza!

Our third activity was breaking into two teams and having each team build a tower. After they build the tower they threw soft toys at their opponents tower. They won prizes for structure and design. Each team had the same # of legos.

Besides the fun birthday party we dealt with a couple of bouts of upper-respiratory virus, and then a stomach virus. Through it all Bugaboo only had one seizure even though she was running a very high temp!

February

We celebrated Valentine's Day by making my new favorite sugar cookie: chocolate! Each of the children decided how many teachers they wanted to make cookies for. Big H made them for his former 2nd Grade teacher, his current 3rd grade teacher, and the Librarian. Vegieman chose his art teacher and his current teacher. For Bugaboo there is quite a list: her classroom teacher and her three aids, her speech therapist, her occupational therapist, and her music teacher. We are lucky that so many care about her!!!!

January

We went on a mini-vacation to The Dells! We had a great time at Great Wolf Lodge!

Bugaboo turned out to be a true daredevil. She loved going down the racing slides. She didn't even mind the water splashing in her face!

Big H took awhile to warm up to the park--but once he found some super fun things he wasn't ready to come home!

Vegie-man and I went down the "Tornado" He even mentioned in his writing that his favorite weather is tornadoes because of this very ride! Luckily we only went down it twice!

Bugaboo also saw her neurologist. We seem to finally have her seizures under control. We went through a scary time this winter where she had 4-5 seizures in one day. We won't really know until 6 weeks has passed. That is her record--6 weeks with no seizures.