Brendon is Home!!!

i know i have been really bad about updating. we have just been really busy. i am going to put a link to his site on my blogs i read daily list. we raised $225 for the Dunn's, and i already bought the card and sent it to them. i am going to keep the donation button there because even though they do not have to travel to the hospital, they now have to travel to saco (about 45 min. each way) three times a week for his chemo shots. so, if someone still feels like they want to donate, you still can, and i will make sure i get it to them (for those that know that paypal has fees, i want you to know that i pay all the fees when you donate. whatever amount you donate, they get all of it!) anyway, so that is up now. here is a picture of the card that i sent. for those that sent messages, i printed all of the messages in different colors and then cut them out and pasted them on the card. i think it turned out really nice! here is the picture:

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the rest of this post is a normal family post! :) most of my posts from now on will be normal, the only time i will update on brendon is when there is something new or something changes, only because he has his own blog now and you can click on the link to go see what is going on there. anyway, not much has been going on here, we all have colds still, but not sick enough to really feel miserable. our weather has been fairly good and we got to go outside a few times. today is another nice day and as soon as the kids get their rooms clean, we will be heading outside. i love being able to get outside for a little while.

anyway, angie asked me how i know how many people look at my blog, so, i will put that here in case there are more people interested. the site is: http://sitemeter.com. it is a free site and you can see how many people and where they are from, no, you don't know exactly who it is, but it is kinda cool anyway. you can upgrade to a paid version that tells you more, but that didn't interest me!

we had jordan tested for kindegarten about a week ago and he failed his hearing, vision, and ot test! his ot test has alot to do with the fact that we just noticed that he can use both hands to do things! i feel bad as a parent because i didn't notice it sooner! honestly jordan has suffered alot as a result of the twins, i just don't have the time or the energy to teach him the things i did with toya and get him where he needs to be. he writes better with his left hand, but everytime he picks up something (including his pencil), he automatically uses his right hand. i remember reading something online that said that left handed people are not hereditary (i am left handed), but is in fact someone who can use both hands but prefers or does better with their left. anyway, he has a phsical on monday and i am going to bring that test with me so that i can show his dr. and we can get some of this stuff tested again and find out if there is something going on. i am also hoping to get him into occupational therapy so maybe they can figure out what to do about his writing. we'll see what happens. he has been going to preschool for almost a year now and he definitely needs to go to kindegarten next year, but some of this has me worried because i don't want him to struggle. i am hoping we can get the therapy and other things done during the summer so he is all set for school next year.

on to the slideshow! once again, there were too many pictures to just put on here, so i out a slideshow up! most of them are just the kids playing outside. i realize jordan is too big for his bike, but he refused to ride a bike for the longest time and frankly i didn't have the time to teach him, he has now taken an interest and does really well(with training wheels), so we will have to get him a bigger one now, but he can still ride this one for now: the girls love playing with the helmets, they don't have any of their own, but maybe we will be able to get some new ones for all of them. our dr.s office is giving away 200 new helmets to the first 200 kids that go to the office next saturday and i plan on being there early so they can all get new ones. we'll see what happens, sometimes what i plan on doing, doesn't happen as i plan for some reason....lol. i also watched a couple of other boys one day last week for a couple of hours. it was not as bad as i thought it would be. they were all boys, except my girls. there was a 3 year old and the other 4 were all two! it was a nice day and i would have taken them outside, but i don't have a fenced in yeard and i was afraid they would all go in different directions!!! anyway, i think that is all for the update for now. i will definitely update on what i hear on monday about jordan and things that go on with that. if anyone has had a similar thing happen with their kids, i would appreciate some feedback. thanks and have a great week!!! here is the slideshow(some of the pictures are blurry cause my batteries were dying!):