Our Busy Life :)

Cara and Alex in thier preschool room. They both absolutly adore it!!!!

So, we've had a busy couple of weeks. I decided to go college (scary!!!). I need to use my G.I. Bill from the military, so here I go!! I just wasn't sure how I was going to make it work, being a full time Mom and being a full time student. Blake and I struggled and struggled with the daycare options we were coming up with. Everything is just so expensive!! I didn't want the kids in full time daycare, but there were hardly any places that did part time, and those that did were totally out of our budget. Marcia (my Mother-In-Law) suggested I look at the actual college. Sure enough, they had a daycare. It's not even a daycare. It's preschool :) The only problem here is that they only take kids 2 1/2 years old and up...and they have to be potty trained. Bummer!!! Alex just wasn't there yet. I went in and talked to them. They were so awesome! I told them how Alex did at home with the potty training...basically, not well. They said as long as we are working with him at home, they have no problems working with him there. Woo hoo!!! He has not had an accident yet!! I am just amazed :)

In the midst of all this, Alex finally had his appointment with the allergist. He had the scratch test done and it came back that he was massively allergic to cats and a certain type of tree. He was also allergic (but not as massivly) to mold and ragweed. The food scratch tests ended up not doing anything at all. The doc was defenitly still concerned since Alex does have reactions to food, so he ordered a blood allergy panel to be done. We just went in this past Tuesday to have his blood drawn, so we won't have the results for another couple of weeks. He prescribed him an epi pen for the outside allergens and I am really hoping that the blood panel will not come back positive on anything major!!! The picture of Alex's back above was minutes after they did the scratch test on him. The larger welts on the left are the cat and tree :( I didn't get a picture of how big the welts ended up getting. He still had them when he went to bed that night. Poor kid!!

So, Cara and Alex have started pre-preschool. I am very pleased that they are in the same room at school, and the classroom is right on campus, so I can go and check on them whenever :) Next year, Cara will move to the actual preschool room, but by then Alex will know what the routine is and shouldn't have a problem being by himself in the room. I am still just amazed at how much his potty training has come in the last two weeks!! He is still in a pull up at night, but I think that is normal :)

School for me is not as scary (so far) as I thought it would be. The math and english are the two I have started so far. I am taking these on campus, I will be taking American Government and Intro to the execptional child online, and those two start next week. I feel as though I will be able to handle it. I was a nervous wreck last week, though! It didn't really help that Blake had to go tdy for a month and a half...and he left the day before school started. It's working out though. He is going to be able to come home next weekend, which will be nice. Cara has some concept that he is gone, but whenever we get home and walk in the door, both kids still run through the house looking for him. I think it's actually a good thing to have him gone for a short amount of time, so when he does deploy (probably next summer) for a whole lot longer, they will have some idea of what to expect.

Another plus that has happened....Hurricane Irene didn't hit us :) One of the initial tracks they had her going on, had her coming straight for us. THat would have been a difficult situation as Blake would not have been here, but thankfully, we don't have to worry about her :)

Basically, life is going pretty well. The kids, as always, have thier own issues we are working through....I won't go into any great detail right now...Huh, I am writing in italics.....Aha! That was wierd. Apparently control and I make it italisized. Wierd. Anyway, we are defenitly working on attitudes with both kids, but slowly and surely, they are coming around :) Well, I think that's it for now!!