A Snowy Day...

We woke up to snow and cold this morning and slid to and from church. Once home, the boys (and I include the big one here too) gobbled up nearly a whole coffee cake and then settled in to watching the Polar Express. Morgan joined the toddler Sunday class today and seemed to have a good time. I only stayed a few minutes and then he said it was ok for me to go to church. (: It's amazing the difference between our kids' personalities with situations like this. Jacoby checked out his class and then decided he wanted to sit with Mommy and Daddy again. He does great during the service and loves the music.

Our week was uneventful aside from transitioning back to preschool and work. The boys seemed excited to get back to school and their activities. Miss Amy taught music class on Friday, and that's all they talked about on the way home. They've really been into singing, playing the guitars, and making music together over the past couple of weeks.

We started using our new responsibility chart this week with Jacoby, although Morgan gets reward magnets whenever he does a good job with something too. Jacoby worked on sharing, saying please and thank you, and doing a good job brushing his teeth. Yesterday, we counted the magnets to see how he did and talked about which responsibility had the most magnets, which one had the least, etc. And then he got to pick an activity card for his reward on doing a good job during the week. He picked "Play with flashlights", so we spent the evening running around in the dark, playing hide and seek, and trying not to run into things or each other. He's got a new set of responsibilities for this week--thanks to Aunt Kenzie for our new chart so we can learn how to become responsible!

The big event coming up this week is Jacoby's evaluation at National Jewish for his EoE. We will be seeing the nutritionist, behavioral specialist, GI doctor, and the allergist--all between 11:30 am and 5 pm on Thursday. We do have a 2-hour break in the midst of it all, and it sounds like we'll be interviewed to be part of a quality of life research study during that time. I've been so impressed with everyone that I've spoken with by phone, and we're really looking forward to getting treatment started for Jacoby. I think it's going to be a difficult day on a multitude of levels, but I think we'll be ok and I've stockpiled a bunch of books and will be borrowing a portable dvd player from a friend to help pass the time for Jacoby and Morgan. We'd appreciate your thoughts and prayers on Thursday!

We hope you all are warm and toasty today--have a wonderful week!

Reading to Elmo

Playing the guitar

Playing guitars together...Jacoby really likes using the strap