Sunday, August 26, 2012

Andrew starts school




Our little Andrew is not so little any more. He is 3.5yrs now and this month started at the big international school with uniforms and everything.


The start was a bit rough with some behavioral issues like not wanting to follow teachers instructions and sit on the mat. But now he is doing better (not perfect, but better). We sent andrew with a shadow to help him transition (a trained therapist from his autism early intervention school) but the teacher does not like it and asserts she can handle him herself. So we have a bit of a conflict there, but the best thing about that is that it is showing us that our two years of working overtime to healing and recovering Andrew (not to mention spending loads of $--sigh) is working so much that the teacher keeps asserting he is acting no different than the other kids and she doesn't see why he needs any extra help or support.


The students get new library books every day to take home to read. He keeps checking out this same book from the library--they try to get him to pick other books but he really likes this story about a girl who can't stop jumping


Good job andrew, keep up the good work

Love mom and dad

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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Quick vid in honor of our friend Eric










I posted a bunch if raw footage on you tube last month of the boys saying happy birthday to Eric and Courtney edited it. here is the finished product
The above pics have nothing to do with it by the way...just took them and haven't posted them yet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8gjcu-cXTY&feature=youtu.be
I will add at the end Andrew got up and didn't think his fall was a big deal. Lol
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Guess where this is...


 Heather my sister came out to visit so I took her here...

 Ten bucks if you can figure out where this is...


 Ha long bay in Vietnam












 Here we are hanging out on the floating fisherman's house.  Our guide is on the left.  A fisherman actually lives here and keeps his catch down in the hole.  This house is completely floating like the other ones you see in the background.

Ok holding this crab was taking my life in my hands -- it was so wiggly

he asked us to take this picture for him and email it to him after the trip -- he was so proud to show us the right was to hold a crab -- we were flipping out
there is our blue kayak -- we kayaked around the village and through the cliffs