Back to school for Beau Philip and Lola Cate

Lola Cate and Beau Philip started school on August 15. They started the same day I started. We are super excited about Beau's year because he has one of our family's favorite teachers, Mrs. Julie. Luke had Mrs. Julie for 4k and Henry had Mrs. Julie for 3k. So Mrs. Julie now gets a turn with our Beau. I'm sure she will love him as much as she loves Luke and Henry. Beau adjusted back to school within two days time. In fact on day two, as I was talking to Mrs. Julie he interrupted me and said "You go home momma." Ha. Okay then. He also has many of his friends from his 2k class with him so that makes transitioning even better.

Lola Cate has two new teachers that we are looking forward to getting to know, Miss Marlee and Miss Isabelle. Both seem very nice and are enjoying our girl. Lola has been slow to settle in, being her first time in school, but she is beginning to come around.

You know I had to match them on their first day in school together. Actually I had to match them their first week! :) It was too much fun. I would match all of my children on a daily basis if I could. #momgoals

The first day

Today was the first day of my 14th year of teaching! Woah! More importantly, today was Beau Philip's first day of 3K and Lola Cate's first day of toddler class! Both beautiful children had a great day and both dropped off with hesitation but no tears! No tears, which means mommy didn't have tears! Yay!
Beau's teacher is Mrs. Julie and he has many friends in his class from last year. We know Mrs. Julie because she taught Luke 4K and Henry 3K! We are very excited to have her this year.  Lola Cate's teacher is Mrs. Isabella and Miss Marlee. These are new teachers for us but we are looking forward to developing new relationships with them and looking forward to Lola enjoying her first year at Simpsonville First Baptist CDC.

This was Beau as soon as I dropped him off. He just sat and watched, kinda pouting because I had left. 

But then...I get this picture later from his teacher. A picture of him with many of his buddies, mostly from last year and now with him in his class again this year. So glad that worked out.

Lola Cate's teacher sent me this one when she was eating her morning snack. Such a big girl sitting at the table with her classmates!

Beau at recess on the big kid playground.

After we finally got home, reunited and it felt so good to mommy but she was all about playing with those brothers! She was so happy to be with them again.

The back of her dress. It was just so cute I had to take a picture. Love the smocked apple on the back.

(Backup) So long tonsils and adenoids

Beau had his tonsils and adenoids out on May 12, 2017. It was a scary experience for us but it was needed. It took him about 12 days to recoop and recover 100%. It was difficult to keep food and drink in him and he got tired of taking medicine too. But we made it through and he is back to our old Beau but now has a nasal/squeaky voice. I've been told the voice will go back to normal, I look forward to that. 

The only thing he wanted after surgery was "my daddy". So that's what he got. 

 

(The nurse told him that if he ate two popsicles then he could go home-and that he did!)

The reason we decided to have the surgery done are below. He has never had strep or any other throat infection. 

-snoring when sleeping

-whistled when breathing

-always had puffy bags under his eyes from not sleeping well. 

-choked on food

-drooled

-mouth breather

-chugged drinks and then gasped for air 

     

 

     

Finally going home! (On daddy's lap!)

K2

Beau finished his k2 year happy! He had a lot of change this year but we stuck with it and he did great. He started the year with Mrs Joanne (teacher) and Miss Amanda (assistant) and Mrs. Lisa (assistant). But Miss Amanda left shortly after Christmas for a great job opportunity. This brought in a new assistant who was quickly moved along because she just didn't mesh with the class. The Mrs. Joanne left for another position which moved Mrs. Lisa into the teaching position for the remaining year and added Miss Savannah and Miss Lauren as assistants. He is a strong kiddo and ended up doing well with the change. And we've now started using Miss amanda as a babysitter! 

This year Beau also transitioned out of baby net services (speech and OT) and into greenville county schools services. After a long emotional meeting for momma, it was determined (IEP) he would receive 30 minutes of speech once a week. So from his birthday on Beau rode the big kid school bus from daycare to Simpsonville Elementary school on Thursday for speech with Mrs. Elaine. He seemed to love it and will begin again in August. 

Beau also made some great friends in his class and we are looking forward to having some of them in his class next year. 

 

Miss Amanda (babysitting)

 

Miss Lisa

  

 

First day andlast day of k2. Where has my baby boy gone to!

K2

Beau is off to school! He has had two great days! Better then what I expected. He is exhausted, as expected. But he seems happy and was excited to go back the second day.  I'm proud of him! In addition to school he will have three therapist that service him there. Lisa, speech, Megan, OT and Megan S. his early interventionist. I'm looking forward to him having a great year with Mrs. Joanne and Mrs. Amanda as his teachers and Mrs. Lisa as his afternoon teacher. So far his favorite part is the gym and playing ball! He also likes the bunny rabbit called Bugsby in his classroom. 

Day one 

No worries, I took the screw and screw driver away. 

He loves his back pack. 

Day two. He showed me where to go. 

Test run

Beau starts school on August 9th, same day as me. So Friday our wonderful early interventionist met us at his school and spent their therapy hour in his soon to be classroom. It went great! He did circle time and snack and recess with them. I'm hoping this will help with his transition into k2. 

On our way in. 

Headed down the hall, like he owns the place. 

In they go!

Looking out his new class window. 

He's the biggest kid in there, no surprise. 

Note to self: beau receives 3 hours of therapy a week, OT (Megan-pronounced Meegan), speech (with Lisa) and an hour with hisEarly  interventionist (Megan). 

Beau

The one and only. 

Beau

My wild card. My Beau. The one and only. 

Wedgies happen

Beau

Remember this. Beau loves shoes. He wears shoes with his diaper. He loves shoes and hates clothes. :) 

Beau

Last weekend Beau gave us a scare. He drank heating oil #2 which is pretty similar to karosene. He did immediately begin to spit up and cough but managed to ingest some. After visiting the ER, they admitted him into the PICU for a night of observation. The oil appeared to make him intoxicated like. He couldn't stay awake. They were watching to make sure he didn't asperate in his lungs and wanted to monitor his heart and oxygen level. He had 24 hours with no food or drink because that coukd have caused him to aspirate. He was hooked up to all kinds of machines while we were there. He also had an IV for fluids. Thankfully 24 hours after being admitted he was released and was back to our normal active Beau. He did however have about three days where his bowel movements smelled like gas. Thankfully all ended well besides all of us being extremely tired. 

Asleep in the ER after putting up a good fight for the IV and lung X-rays. 

Checked into our room in the PICU. He hated the BP monitor. And the oxygen monitor on his toe. Surprisingly he left the IV alone. 

Out for the night in his hospital crib. Surprisingly he slept really well. 

His first food and beverage, goldfish and orange juice. 

Then he was allowed breakfast in bed while watching cartons. 😊

By this point we learned we were going to be discharged and they started to disconnect all his cords and tubes. That's when we decided to take a stroll. 

Then the IV was allowed to come out. 

Finally. We were out of there!

 Thankfully our stay was brief there. So many other patients looked like they were in for a long ride in the PICU. We are grateful ours ended after only a night.