Day One

Well, Alea began work here today. Ok, I think I am going to love this! We started out with one of Bryce's therapy sessions today. I had Alea sit in on it with me so that she will know what types of things we are doing with him. The therapist that came is my least favorite one of the group as far as therapists go. She is a nice person, but I just didn't feel like she was doing much for Bryce most of the time. Well, for one thing we found out that she is going to be leaving and as of next week he will have a new developmental specialist. Also, Alea did great with Bryce during the session. She actually did more with Bryce than the therapist did. She was just totally confident with getting down with Bryce and making noises for him and all kinds of things. Bryce loved it!

After therapy I took a quick shower and the boys and I headed out to pick up Kindergarten kids and then to the Matheson's for the play group potluck. Well, Bryce fell asleep in the car on the way over and so I decided to take him home and lie him down since Alea would be there doing some cleaning. So I got to go with just the older boys to the potluck which made it nice, because I could actually sit and talk with the other ladies there while the boys played. And Bryce actually got in a nice full nap today!

Then I took the boys home and headed up to the scout shop to buy William's new uniform for Cub Scouts. Normally I would have had at least two boys with me and a shop like that is just not a fun place to take two little kids that like to touch everything. On the way home I had to stop somewhere to use a restroom. Yes, this baby appears to be sitting right on my bladder! Anyway, so I pulled into a store parking lot, climbed out of the car, went in, used the restroom, and came out again. It took all of about 2 minutes instead of 10-15 minutes that it normally takes when I have to get everyone out of the car, get Bryce buckled into his stroller and make the trek into the store. So that was great. Then as I was getting closer to home, I realized that I still had about an hour left before William needed to be at cub Scouts, so I decided to stop and get a very needed haircut. I would never have done that with kids along and normally I am trying to get back super fast so that I can get the babysitter home when I told her I would, and not have to pay like an extra six bucks just to get my hair cut. The whole trip just felt so freeing. And it was wonderful to come home to a house where the dishes were not still waiting in the sink for me and my floor had actually been mopped. It was a good first day!