Baby Monkey is 5 Today

Happy birthday, Baby Monkey. You are a wonderful blessing from God. We have enjoyed being your parents these last 4 years.

It is hard to believe that Hannah is five years old now. My dad and his wife's aunt came over Saturday for cake and ice cream. My friend, Amee, and her son Owen came over afterwards. Hannah had fun. She is growing into a lovely young lady. All she wanted us to get her was a set of princess shoes and a Barbie nail set. She was excited.

Memorial Day Weekend Trip

I know I'm late posting these pictures from our Memorial Day weekend. We went to Chattanooga, TN. Ethan loves trains so we wanted to go down so he could ride a real train. He really enjoyed it. While we were there we went to the science museum. We had a lot of fun there. The kids made a mask and painted pictures. They have a really nice park across the river from downtown. We rode a ferry boat over so the kids could ride the carousel. Ethan was too sure about the carousel. The pictures of them in the water is outside of the aquarium. Every time we were down there they had to stop and play in the water. Hannah said her favorite part was swimming in the hotel pool. One of our traditions when we go to Chattanooga is to go to the English Rose Tea Room. Hannah always love to have tea with me. On the way home we stopped by the Mayfield Dairy in Athens, TN. It was interesting to see how they get the milk ready for us to purchase.

Ethan's Speech

I had a meeting today with Ethan's speech teacher concerning his IEP. She said that he has come a long way. I agree that he has come a long way. She says that he is a sweet little guy that she enjoys having in class. She also says that he is very eager to learn.

He will have to have speech once a week during the summer just to keep everything he has learned up. They do not provide transportation for the summer visits. I'm praying that God will work it out so that the teacher can go to the head start site to do his therapy.

Ms. Lisa has set a goal for him to be at 80% intelligent comprehension by this time next year. She does not think that he will have a problem reaching these goals.