Birth to Three Evaluation

Your child Logan Hawk has been found eligible to receive Birth to Three Services as a result of the Eligibility Evaluation conducted on 4/12/11.

If your child is eligible, the developmental areas which are significantly delayed include:

• Motor Skills (fine & gross)
• Adaptive Skills
• Communication Skills

The developmental areas which are mildly delayed include:

• Personal-Social & Cognitive Skills

Your service coordinator will be contacting you on 5/3/11 8am to schedule an Individualized Family Service Plan and answer any questions you may have.

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And that's Tuesday for ya. It was a 2hr evaluation...45mins of paperwork and background talk then playtime. We showed off Logans best skills & answered questions and spoke our concerns in front of an Early Intervention Specialist and a Speech Therapist. Logan was pooped come 10am when it was all said and done and we were told he was eligible.

Still not 100% sure what to expect from his eligibility. From what we've gathered he will receive Physical & Occupational Therapy at a to be determined frequency from at least 2 different specialist who will come to our house and work with him with us helping him to improve the areas where he is delayed and educating us on how to better help him.

34 weeks!

Not sure when it happened but I missed a week of my pregnancy. I thought last week I was 32 weeks pregs but turns out I was really 33 weeks and therefore this week I'm 34 weeks :o

Had my check up last week - still pregnant :) She took my blood pressure twice cause she was shocked that it was as good as it was 50/90. Other vitals are good - they'll test my blood platelets again at my next appointment because they are still lower than they should be but are stable. Weight gain is settling down and as of now I've gain a little less than 20lbs.

Lots of unnecessary stressors knocking on the door of life which keeps that dark cloud hovering close by. My eyes have started to twitch which is incredibly annoying especially at night when I've got baby in my belly kicking and both eyes twitching. I must look like I belong in the nut house.

Still feeling comfortable and Kevin gives me a hard time for doing some of the things I do while pregnant but I also kick up my feet at the end of the day and breathe. I figure the busier I stay the busier my mind stays and then that dark cloud seems to stay away :)

All and all I'm still in disbelief at just how close we are to welcoming baby Reagan.

Race results are in!

Little pre-race aquarium fun:

Getting pumped up for the big race!!

On the starting line with Dad :o

Logan moved maybe 5inches off the start line - he and the 3 other babies in his heat got smoked

But apparently he exerted a lot of energy:


Not a winner but a champion nonetheless.

House Proud

Today marks our 1 year anniversary of being homeowners :) It's been a long/short year & we've worked really hard to get our house to where it is today. We started with a blank slate and we're slowly putting our stamp on our house. There will be a million tears shed from me when we leave this house just knowing how much of our blood (yes there has been blood shed), sweat (real shirt soaking sweat), and tears (you try making over every room with a baby and being pregnant) we've put into our 1st house. We've made a ton of sacrifices in order to try to afford to do and buy what we want for our house. It sounds ludicrous but I skip right over the clothing aisles, mosey right past the make up and hair product aisles and go straight to hardware and house things. We are at Home Depot just about every weekend, sometimes multiple times...the paint lady knows us & adores Logan. We order in food or go out to eat maybe once a month and I've started getting good at selling items on Craigslist ;) We're gettin it done.

When we moved in I originally took pictures to help show our friends and family that lived far away our new digs and I'm happy I did cause this past week I've gone back and tried to take pictures from the same angles to show you the changes we've made.

Below are the 2010 vs. 2011 house pics. And then for those who care - this link: House 2011 will take you to an online album with more detailed pictures of our house today, exactly one year since the day we bought it.

Cheers!

Guest Room/Office

View of the Foyer from the Kitchen

Playroom

Living Room

Downstairs Bathroom

View of Kitchen from the Foyer

UPSTAIRS

Master Bedroom & Closet

Upstairs Bathroom

Logan's Room

Reagan's Room

Happy Home Day!

Bathroom Renovation - DONE!

I can't even begin to explain how happy we are to have this project done. It's been a long time coming but we (and by we I mean mainly Kevin) have been working on it while the baby naps & when the baby goes down for bed at night since October. We had a major snag up with the heating vent pipe - got several quotes from professionals to move it but then Kevin being the engineer that he is figured a way to do it himself, saving us hundreds/thousands of dollars. Kevin did 98% of all the work himself. He had a friend come one afternoon to help install the pocket door and I did all the mudding, sanding and painting and a few other odds and ends but otherwise it was Kevin that figured out the plumbing, the electric, the tiling the everything. The future goal will be to install a caddy corner shower stall in the corner where the brown wicker basket is ...time and money stopped us from doing that right now, but one day... until then, enjoy our journey :

DONE!
Enter our new Water Closet:

Before (top or left pics) & After (bottom or right pics)

Click here to see all the pictures!