September Fun

September was a busy, fun time of year.  Jake started his new preschool, and was so excited to be back.  The woman holding his hand is Mrs. Betty, who is a helper in his classroom (and who also happens to have a son with Down syndrome-cool!)  She is Jake's favorite.  Many times after school Jake has wanted to "play teacher" and he always wants to be Mrs. Betty.  He also loves his teacher Mrs. Carrie, who is great with the kids.  The woman bending down is Mrs. Heather, the occupational therapist.  She is a wonderful lady who loves Jake too.

 Early mornings brought beautiful sunrises.  Neither of these photos have been edited at all.  The view is looking out our patio door across the field.  Awesome!

Now for some random events:

 Jake gets sent to time out in this corner.  He has to face the corner because he gets too distracted looking around the room to think about why he's in time out.  Leah thinks it's a fun game and always tries to run to time out with him.  It cracks me up (Jake too), which may defeat the purpose of time out, but oh well. 

And speaking of Leah, she found Kennedy's goggles and was obsessed with them for about a week.  She climbed in the bucket and Kennedy pushed her around.  I thought she looked an awful lot like an old-school aviator.  What did I laugh at before I had kids?  I can't remember. 

Another morning I heard some serious giggling coming from the computer room.  It turned out Leah was having her first go at playing doctor with Jake.  She would put the stethescope on him and just start giggling and giggling.  It was so cute.  Jake was a great patient, laying so still and coughing at just the right moments. 

Kennedy came out of her room one day saying she was "sooooo cold."  But instead of changing into, oh I don't know, warmer clothes, she decided to get her winter gear on and then fashion herself a pair of boots made of.....diapers.  A little tape and ribbon and viola!

A part of September that wasn't so great was that I got really sick.  It started in the evening with a fever, body aches, and chills.  The next morning was worse and I couldn't even get out of bed.  Kennedy stayed home from school mostly because I didn't have the strength to get her ready.  She was a great helper for me that day.  Mid-morning I was laying in bed and I kept hearing a "ker-plunk" sound coming from the kitchen.  It sounded like a small rubber bouncy ball hitting the floor and then bouncing away.  Which is what I assumed it was.  Although the amount of giggling and laughter I heard coming from the kitchen was susupicious.  So I dragged myself out of bed, held on to the walls as I walked to the kitchen, and found this:

I had asked Kennedy earlier to get Jake and Leah some grapes for a snack.  Little did I know she had gotten out all the grapes, left them on the table, and went happily back to the computer room to play her game.  Well, Jake and Leah had found all the grapes, and were sitting on the edge of the table, feet swinging merrily as they plucked each grape and threw it across the room, laughing hysterically as it "ker-plunked" on the floor and dribbled away.  Oh boy.  Good thing my camera was right on the counter.  I have to say, if I hadn't been so sick, I would have been laughing hysterically too.  The kitchen floor covered with grapes?  Not so hysterical.  Kennedy was a trooper though and helped me clean them up.

And finally one more funny moment.  Leah was eating her yogurt while I was changing the laundry.  I heard Kennedy yelling for me.  I came to find Leah's lovely finger painting on my door and Kennedy being the ever-watchful big sister pointing out her little sister's evil doings.  Leah was giving me a look like, "What?  You took too long and I want down!"