Good News!

The last few weeks have been so crazy busy that I haven't felt like I could pull it all together. Every day brought new chaos and upset previously made plans. I have been trying to get some evaluations done for Sierra and finally had the one I was waiting for yesterday morning. She was being tested for her speech and cognitive development and they have decided to refer her for the Early Childhood Intervention Preschool Program based on her scores. She scored in the "delayed" to "severely delayed" range in every category that they tested her in. I cried. Partly because I am so grateful that she will be able to get the extra help that I have known she needs. And partly because the "severly delayed" stung a little bit. I don't know that any parent wants to hear that their child is having some problems--no matter what they may be. I'm excited to have her start and to see the progress that she makes. She will go every day except for Wednesday for 3 hours. I am a little sad about that. I'm not ready to send her everyday, but I know she'll love it and have a great time.

And Lauren made final cuts for both the HMS basketball and soccer teams! She had her last day of basketball tryouts Saturday morning and soccer tryouts ended yesterday afternoon. Soccer practice starts today with games in about 2 weeks. Basketball won't start until November. She is very excited and we're proud of her. She loves sports!

We got Mackenzie signed up for basketball through our county rec league. She will start with practice later this month and have games on Saturdays. Hopefully their soccer season will be over by then! I'm going to need some kind of planner to keep up with my girls' schedules!

The little girls are just loving fall! With the cooler weather they can play outside and have a great time in all of the leaves that are covering our backyard!