CRAZY!!

Wow! What a crazy week it's been! Katie had her 3 year old well-child doctor's appt., got Katie's hearing tested, had Zachary's IEP meeting (his speech goals for Kindergarten), we met with the realtor twice about listing our house, met with the builder about building a house, had Zachary's Pre-School Graduation ceremony and I pulled off our 2-day subdivision garage sale this week. We had over 30 houses participate in the sale and a bunch of those houses were actually multi-family sales. It ended up being over 50 families that participated. I am completely and utterly exhausted - and yet ecstatic over the turnout of buyers! We must've ended up with a thousand people or more that came. It took Mike 20 minutes to drive from the entry of our subdivision to our house due to the mass of humanity. That mass of humanity also dropped over $750 at our house alone. Our next door neighbor ended up with nearly $1600 in the 2 days! Everyone made in the hundreds of dollars and they are all talking about next year's sale already. Great - next year some of them can help! LOL!

Katie is still HUGE! She's now 39.75" tall (96 percentile for height) and 39.5 lbs. (95 percentile for weight) and still in a massive growth spurt. She's wearing a girl's clothes size 4/5 as well as a size 11-wide shoe. Luckily she's pretty dog-gone cute so the boys don't give her grief yet about being taller than them! She's definitely in her 3's now with all the attitude of a red-head - can't imagine where she gets that from! Her new speech therapist (by law we had to change to the school district since she turned 3) did some informal testing this week and was shocked that she's testing intellectually at close to a 5 year old in many areas - must've gotten that from her mother too! LOLOL! Her hearing test went exceptionally well and the pathologist was also shocked at how quickly she was able to do the test. They said they rarely get a 5 year old who can pick up how to do the test and get it done that quickly and easily - it was less than 2 minutes. She's a smart cookie - looks like Mike's going to be helping with all the homework! LOL!

Zachary's Pre-school graduation was adorable! It actually made most of us cry and they even handed out diplomas to the kids! We, of course, caught it on video and on the digital camera. Haven't had time to download any photos this week though - so maybe this next week I can post some. Zachary's trying to read already and is more than ready to start writing sentences. He loves to memorize the words to his books and "read" them to us. He can read some words and he's learning to sound them out. Guess those Leap Frog videos really are terrific!!!

The meeting with the builder went well and we talked about building the same house we had in Little Rock - only with a basement. We loved that house and we've really missed it - so he's getting with his architect to try and work something out on that while making it handicap accessible. Unfortunately, that's something we are really having to think about and are going to go and look at a friend's house that was just finished that is fully equipped since her husband is in a wheelchair due to polio related complications from his youth. The builder was very knowledgeable about a number of things that would need to be done to change the house so there wouldn't be any steps for me to deal with either on the interior or exterior. It's actually kind of fun to get design your house and do things that you've thought about for years.

The meeting with the realtor also went well. The house is worth more than we paid for it, and should allow us to have a bit of pocket change as well, though not much - but it's better than the prospect of not making anything and the house having devalued as has happened in part of the country. We're going to stay in our subdivision. It's getting to be a really fun place to live and the social aspect has picked up with all the neighbors - so we're really having a great time living here.