Colton's Big Day

After months of waiting, and probably 6 evaluations, Colton finally started school today! He was actually diagnosed with Highly Functioning Autism a few weeks ago. It didn't come as a huge surprise, but it has been overwhelming to try to figure out what to do to help him. He is such a sweet, loving little guy most of the time, and a challenge at times for sure. We are so relieved that we will be getting some help at school.
His teacher is so great. He's in class with 2 other three year old girls and some special ed Kindergarteners. We have lots of goals for him and can't wait to see his progress over the next few months!
He did not want to look at the camera today. But he sure looked sweet in his new little backpack.


After school.


Within 5 minutes of getting home. His new thing...removing shoes and pants as soon as he walks in the door.

Happy Birthday Jonathan!

Spencer, Alyson, and Grace came out for the weekend. It's always great to hang out with them!

We had tons of fun with some of our old friends celebrating Jonathan's birthday yesterday.


The babies


These kids (mostly) had a great time.

Here are few random pictures from the last few weeks. Jonathan was gone this week so it was pretty boring. He got to go to the BYU game last night. Too bad they lost.

Kirsten loves her brother. Although she came home from church with a picture that said she prays for a "baby sister".


Colton loves his trains still. He can lay there all night, usually crashing his trains.




My parents gave us this chair. The kids have had tons of fun spinning each other on it. Colton loves spinning people. He'll come up to me and say "mommy's turn" and pull me over to the chair.

So our computer has not been working exceptionally well and I just haven't had the patience for it these last few weeks. So now that it's working better here's some of what we've been up to the last few weeks.

We had a really great windy day. Colton had his first experience flying a kite.




Colton is really loving Max. Well, mostly he's ignoring Max. Unless Max is messing with his stuff. In which case, Colton will put Max on his bed and say "go to bed, Max", "nigh-night, Max", and then pretend snore to show Max what he should be doing.


We've missed having this funny girl around all day. She started school on Aug. 11th! Which seemed super early. I didn't take any pictures of her first day. It was just too crazy. She's really enjoyed her teacher and the new friends she's made. It's been a much easier adjustment than kindergarten was!


Max has been into everything! Driving me a little crazy, but how can you get mad at that chubby face?!





In case you haven't heard or experienced...this Summer has been really hot. We heard some rain might be coming our way so we headed outside to check it out.

First we checked out a snake.


We had Emily over a few times this Summer which is always SUPER fun! And we really miss her now that she's moved to the other side of the country!!










After Kirsten did her rain dance, we finally got some rain! Actually she's really gotten into trying to break dance. It's pretty funny.


So other than that. I've mostly been chasing


And cleaning up after these two boys.


And laughing at this silly girl.


And one last cute picture.