Hair, hare, magic, and hiking....

I know it has been several weeks since we posted and we ave been busy.  So  busy, in fact, that I will split up the activities among posts.  Seamus has started a school down here.  We had the annual I.E.P. meeting (Individualized Education Plan), though next year's is much more extensive.  He will receive some additional services next year including a special ed. teacher to help with social behaviors.   He was sent home with a letter on his hearing.  We are waiting on the next round of testing for that one.  He had a field trip with his class, Izabel and Matt, but that is for a future post.

Izabel has 4th grade well underway.  She is still with the virtual academy.  We have been very busy with her 4-H this month and that is also for a future post.  She is also very busy with the neighborhood kids.  Where we are now she can go out and run around and make trouble without being in too much trouble herself. 

Future posts will include a llama walk, field trip pics and a hog/sheep sale.

Seamus settling into his new room

Playing in the rain with some new friends.

Hanging out in the driveway.

We have a loss of some hair and a gain of some hare.... I donated 12 inches of hair to "Locks of Love" to make wigs for kids battling cancer; Izabel adopted a bunny for a 4-H project.  The bunny is Virginia (yes now we have 3 Uncles Steve, 2 Cousins Katherine/Catherine, 2 Cousins Emily, 2 Cousins Abigale, and 2 Virginia Holmes in our lives). 

We attended the Seder up in Denver.  It is our 7th with the same folks.  It was a blast.  The woman who sat across from us bickered with her date all evening and doesn't like Seamus' name ("well he could always call himself James if he doesn't like it when he grows up.").  She also started to tell me about a friend who married a Hungarian when they were living in Paris after WWII.  When I asked the next question, I was told she was there with graves registration.  Interesting lady.

Passover Seder.  Seamus is very proud of his new Seder plate.

Seamus had some help cleaning up at the end of the evening.
Seamus explicitly stated that he was being helped by Robert, not the other way around.

 
We attended a fun day presented by the people who provide services to kids like Seamus.  The kids had their faces painted....




 
 They had obstacle courses and sensory therapy activities....
       

They made ice cream using plastic bags, milk, sugar, vanilla, salt and ice.

  

They enjoyed a magic show.  It was actually very funny; he did a bit of a Jerry Lewis thing and joked around with the kids.

Then we went on a 4 mile hike here in the Springs.  We started with a picnic and a visit to the nature center and then chased some butterflies by a stream.

Matt has a new camera with special effects, if you haven't been able to tell that already.