A general update...

Well, my camera is missing. I've got pictures on it waiting to post and I have also missed quite a few Kodak moments the past few days :o( so I figured I will post a general update so I don't forget all that has been happening around here.
From the youngest on up---
Onny went for her first hippotherapy session last week and she really enjoyed it! Her early intervention therapist recommended her for it, and her sessions will be covered by the state. She is starting to talk more. It's strange to actually hear words coming out of her mouth. Then again, it's also strange listening to her talk in her Onnly language too. We are trying to decide what step to take next with her. She can either go to preschool at the local public school or to early headstart at the district early headstart program. The preschool is two days a week and right down the street but almost all the kids are at least 3 years old. The early headstart would be 5 days a week with kids her own age, at a school about 15 or 20 minutes from here. The third option would be the local Montessori school but we would have a hard time fitting that one into our budget. I am leaning towards the headstart but we would have to transport her every day and her school is in the opposite direction from Kory and Estuardo's schools for the fall.
Estuardo is on the go continuously and his vocabulary and conversational skills are getting better every day. I am working hard on manners and appropriate behavior with him. I've been getting him back into listening to stories I read to him. His 3 current favorites are the Llama Mama books, Yolen's How Does a Dinosaur... series, and most recently The Bear Snores On and the rest of the bear books in the series. We are building up quite a library.
Marisol is getting ready to go to summer camp for a week at New Mexico School for the Blind in Alamagordo. She leaves in about a week and a half. She will be taking the group bus down on a 4 or 5 hour drive to get there. Last year she had a blast and she's so excited to go again this year.
I drove Kory up to Salt Lake City last week for an appointment at Shriner's. His right leg has been growing very crookedly and he's getting kind of knock-kneed. We thought it was his prosthetic at fault but it's his leg. So we head back up the first of July for surgery (and of course to visit my daughter's family and that cutie pie new little baby of hers). We are going to try nd get up there a few days ahead of surgery so we can play a little bit before Kory is officially off his legs for several weeks.
Jesse had his yearly check up at the doctor's today and now has several referrals and lots of work ahead of him with therapies etc. The pediatrician says she wants him listening to books on tape and engaging his mind instead of sitting and staring all day.
Mattea has had several appointments this last couple of weeks. This week she saw the developmental pediatrician who released her from her care as she is doing so well. We also saw the pulmonologist who is starting her on a steroid inhaler to help her lungs a bit. He also said he might be able to help us with the continued quest to have her tonsils taken out. He said to wait and see the results of her sleep study--- which is actually tonight, right now in fact, and thought the results might be pretty much directly pointing to having the tonsils taken out. Then we would have to decide whether or not to take her up to Denver for the procedure or just have it done right here.
The most exciting thing for Mattea this week is that she started summer school, finally! I haven't heard from them as to how she is doing. I wonder if they realize she has never before had the opportunity to attend school. I hope they will be able to teach her lots of new things.
To be continued tomorrow...