Worldess Wednesday

A great song

This is an original song by our youth pastor's son. If he makes it into the top 5, based on how many times his video is viewed he gets to play in the morning of the show and if chosen he will be the opening act for the Celebrate Freedom concert.

Around the house

These pictures are from early June. They got into my
sticker collection and had fun putting stickers all over
themselves.

They both like their camera's that Grandparents in Ohio gave them. They like to look at the pictures they have taken.

Cleft clinic visit

Will's cleft visit was the last week of May and I'm just now posting about it. He got to see the speech pathologist Dr. Riski who he will now work with. It helps he knows where the two toy draws are and that he will get a prize from the treasure box when he finishes! He worked hard to make the speech sounds he was asked to do. Unfortunately since we have added the allergy medication he has very little "nasal secretions" and mucus to limit his hyper nasality. So we are to keep working with him on his sounds having him whisper or close his nose with his fingers pushing the nostrils closed (not his favorite thing to do). He is still making many sounds by slamming his vocal folds together (glottal stops) to be understood. Dr. Riski wants the school speech teacher to work on his speech with him closing his nose or whispering so he doesn't get the bad habits reinforced.



When we meet with Dr. B. he said we need to do a sphincter pharyngoplasty to improve his speech. Surgery is scheduled for October 4th to take advantage of my fall break. We knew he would probably need 4-8 surgeries so we were not surprised, but hate to see him have more surgery. We are only suppose to stay up to 23 hours in extended recovery.

Puggles awards!

Tyler and Will and the other 3 boys in their class took part in the AWANA award's ceremony at church on 5/23/10. I had a hard time getting both of the boys in the same picture. So Tyler is sitting with his friends M and D. The next picture is Will and B our youth pastor's son.




The last two pictures are from their presentation
in front of the church. They were to say what they were holding and at the end say God made everything. It took two tries to get it correct.
They loved going to Puggles and are sad they don't get to go anymore. But when told they would move up to Cubbies and be with some of their friends that are a year older (4's) they were very excited.

More from the Zoo

I love the look on Will's face! With the man in the Yellow hat, you can see part of Curious George in the background.
Not sure of the name of the brown dinosaur, Tyler was distracted and Will wasn't sure what to think about the character or taking a picture.

Zoo member night

We went to the zoo member night and brought along our neighbor's daughter Torri. The boys love Torri and she really enjoys interacting and helping the boys. We only saw the Giant Panda bears and told her we would bring her again when we went to see the animals.



Their were many story book characters in the pavilion that were doing readings, and posing for pictures. Their was also a family friendly band and in the children's zoo area was a DJ playing dance music. The boys enjoyed dancing with Torri who really seemed to like dancing. She had played in a soccer tournament during the day and was tiered, but excited to go with us.
Not sure if the pictures will post.