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Sep 19, 2015

I blinked and it’s now five weeks later.  We are a whole different family now.  Dylan’s hair seems a few bushy curly inches longer, Whitney is almost to her first break for school, and we heard the beginnings of Leslie’s laughing today.  It’s been a whirlwind of change – we have been weathering tons of parent meetings and trainings for these co-op schools we’ve...

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Day One: Kindergarten
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Day One: Kindergarten

Aug 6, 2015

How will she know which is snack and which is lunch?  Is it enough food?  healthy? too messy? what are the other kids going to have?  Let’s practice opening the container at breakfast to make sure she can do it. Braids.  Can’t have her hair falling out all over the place or dropping in her food or art.  Is this skirt too short?  Gotta...

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Pumpkins and Poppins’
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‘Tis the season for tradition! This is the first Halloween that either of the kids had any clue (and still, not much) of what’s going on.  I have been loving ushering them into the world of pumpkin farms and crunching on fallen leaves.  They may have been more interested in throwing straw and crawling around decorations than anything else. We pulled together a Mary...

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Preschool: Day One
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Preschool: Day One

Aug 15, 2013

My sweet Big Girl. Oh my word, Mamas, how do you find it in you to let your kids go? Is this snack good enough? Do you need fishies AND graham crackers? or maybe cookies. oh what if she feels like string cheese. is this enough? too much? what if she wants what the other kid is having. what’s his mom packing him right...

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Firsts and Lasts
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Firsts and Lasts

Jul 25, 2013

  FIRST trip to the Dollar Store for the kids (and first in a long time for me) – wow, what an easy place to spend money!  Our finds brought on a few other firsts…..  FIRST tea party, attended by our new spiders. FIRST home recorder jam session….yes, Whitney plays it however she wants.  I liken this to something in between Kenny G, and...

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A Day in the Life of Early Start
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Early Start……starts early.  Try as I may, I can’t seem to ever get us all there on time with shoes on and diapers clean. I’m starting to think the pigs might fly if I did.  Nevertheless, we have a packed three hours of development fun twice a week.  Here’s a little window into Whitney’s Early Start days. WORK TIME. When we arrive, we grab...

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Conspiracy Theories and our first IEP
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Having Down syndrome automatically qualifies Whitney for government funded early education services.  Since birth she has met with a teacher and/or specialists each week through the county’s Early Start program. Over the last month or two we have been preparing to enter the public school system. (!!!)  When Whitney turns 3 she “graduates” out of the county program and into a pre-K special classroom. ...

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