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Ryan's Egyptian mask. They are displaying all of them in the library at school, so I went in and took a photo of it today. He said that the rings around the eyes were a sign of power for the males - so his has them! :)

They had a fundraiser at school for the HOPE club this morning and brought in Jamba Juice, so Ryan & I had one! Yum!

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Miss Lynnette brought this cute turkey for you to make today in OT. You had a blast making it! Then you tied the shoe puzzle a couple of times and played the apple game a couple of times!
You had a bracelet in your backpack today after school and I asked you where it came from. You told me "prize", so I asked you if it was from the Box Tops. You answered "yes". It's so nice to be able to ask you questions about school and have you actually answer me!

Jo Dee Messina's Music Room Series Tour

This is a link to a Fox 10 interview that Jo Dee did the morning of the concert. They talk a little about the concert and she sings her newest song...

Jo Dee Messina's Music Room Series Tour

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Veteran's Day, so no school today! We had 2 make-up therapy sessions today instead. Miss Lee came 1st and then Miss Adrian in the afternoon. Miss Lee brought out the Christmas songs for MT, so Matthew was in heaven for that. Miss Adrian brought the Don't Break the Ice game for Matthew and her 24-70 2.8 lens for Mommy to play with for the hour (LOVE it!)! Needless to say - we were both quite happy! LOL!

Ryan had me take some photos of his newest Lego's creation! Built from scratch - no pattern! Pretty good, Huh? He then spent most of the rest of the day knee deep in Legos.

Tonight we're going to take our favorite veteran - Daddy - out for dinner at Applebee's!

I spent a good part (most) of today getting things caught up again. Still have laundry and house cleaning to do, but at this point I figure it can wait until the weekend - ROFL! Got things caught up for the postcard I'll be designing for an astists' group, mailed off the wedding DVD's yesterday, returned e-mails today, got caught up on POTD (hate when I get that far behind posting), did the checkbook. Didn't walk this morning, should have, but didn't. Nice cooler day here today and had the candles burning and windows open for most of it. Cloudy now though...

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Playdate day! Matthew sweet little friend came over for a bit after school! They played in the treehouse for awhile, had a snack and watched a bit of a movie!

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Ryan made his mask today. They are doing a Egyptian study and are going to make Egyptian masks out of them. I was able to take a few minutes to go downstairs and take a few photos of him while they were doing it!

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Today was spent taking all the rock out of the backyard, at least as much as we could. Less of a smorgasbord for the pup.

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We had a really hard time getting Matthew to take his medicine last night. And this morning. He threw it back up. So I called the doc's office and begged them to exchange it for something else. Amoxicillin is not happening. After a small, slightly heated discussion with the nurse who 1st told me he was 7 and we needed to make him take it, he wasn't special needs ("He's not autistic", she said to me), to which I corrected her. Guess she didn't read down in his chart very far. So they filled it with cephalosporin instead. it's still a struggle to get him to take it (can you say Mommy - "Cheerleader Extrodinaire!"), but he's taking it and getting better.

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What to title this one?

Oh- No, he didn't!!!!!
Ooops he did it again....

Take your pick.

Yep - 1 year later, another rock later - this one larger than last years, and another surgery later, Smokey is as good as new again.
Hopefully.
We're callin' him the million dollar dog.

We also came home from school early today. Matthew didn't look too good and he felt a little warm when I saw him at lunch. But, having taken him home twice in the last week and having nothing else go wrong, I let him be. Only to pass him and Miss Taylor in the hall on the way to the nurses office 15 minutes later. He got sick at the lunch table.
Ugh.
So - I took him home and got him a doc's appointment for that afternoon. He had the beginnings of an ear infection in each ear and she said that his left lung sounded "thick". The beginnings of pneumonia. So we than spent 1.5 hours at WalMart waiting for his prescription. Smokey had to wait until Michael got off work to be picked up and they still beat us home!

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Concert Day! You worked towards the tickets as your goal again today and YES! You made it to 12 stars again! Woot! yes - we would have kept you home if you hadn't have made it, but we're so glad you did.
The concert was awesome! It was the 1st time either you or Ryan had been to one. It was a pretty small concert and was driven by the audience. She stopped inbetween songs and answered questions from the audience and then took requests for the next songs. Matthew danced in the aisles some, which didn't seem to be bothering anyone (at least we hope!). We left before the encores, since it was already pretty late.

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Today we left school before 11am. You didn't look good at all and I didn't want a repeat of last Friday. But, once again, as we are walking to the car, you get better and better. Last night, Daddy brought home a voucher for 4 free tickets to go see jo Dee Messina in concert at the Mesa Arts Center. You were working towards them as your goal today. The concert is tomorrow and we needed to go pick up the tickets, so I drove us down there when we left school. And of course I took some photos!
You never did get sick that day. Stinker. You are definately tired though...

Can you see us?????

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They have started a new rewards type system with you at school and today was the 1st day. You earned 12 stars for good behavior and you chose to bring home a #88 Little E paddle ball.

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Mondays are ST with Miss Adrian!
She brought the KerPlunk game for the 2 of you to play again! So fun!

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We went to the park this afternoon for awhile. It was pretty nice today - but a little bit warm. Warm enough for Matthew to need a bit of refreshment while we were there!

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Halloween! A very busy day indeed! We had the DSNetwork Buddy Walk at ASU in the morning and then trick or treating that night! The BW went great and we had alot of fun! Ryan dressed up as Indiana Jones and Matthew as Captain America this year! Both looked great! We had some friends come over to T'orT' with us and they brought home soooooo much candy!

So - Buddy Walk first. Matthew wanted to have his face painted after we checked in. It's the first time he's ever let them paint on his face! Hands yes - but face? Not until now. Needless to say, he wanted it all wiped off about 1 minute after she finished! LOL!

We got there way too early and ended up walking around the float staging area while we waiting to start the parade. Matthew ended up talking his way into a coffin on one float, into the firetruck (with the nice firemen letting him put on a helmet) and into a horse drawn carrige (where, of course, he played Santa Clause! LOL!).

Then we walked the parade.

This is a view from the bridge of the area after we got done.

Then it was onto the rest of the stuff! Straight to the bouncies first. The ASU girls softball team was there. Matthew charmed them and sweet talked one of them into going into the obsticle course bouncy with him!

Ryan proved to have quite the arm on him at the Football-in -the-hole throw...

Matthew insisted on having his photo taken with this chicken - LOL! Too cute!

Then on to Halloween!

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Matthew ended up sick at school today. He threw up once there and was perking up by the time we left school. By the time we got home, he was back to himself, of course. So glad he's not sick, but I totally don't get it! He missed most of his holiday parties at school last year too - but he was definately sick then. When Ryan got home, we carved their pumpkins. Ryan made a wolf howling and Matthew a smiley face - both turned out great! Ryan did everything but gut the pumpkin - I had to do that for him. And Matthew needed help carving this time - I think he was a bit tired - kept sawing in one spot and didn't move it - LOL! He even scooped out one scoop of guts with his own hand - more than his brother did - LOL!

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Miss Lynnette (OT) came today. I had a meeting (IEP for Matthew) at school that ran pretty long, so Grandma was here to stay with the boys and here to help with the Halloween treats Miss Lynnette brought to do. You made crescent roll Ghosts, Mummy cream cheese celery sticks and Mummy toes (crescent wrapped little hot dogs). Matthew even took a few bites of the Ghost he's holding!

Matthew's been having some issues at school - not listening, not lining up. I've been jumping in more and more helping when I see them in the hallways, trying to help. But it's stressing me out more and more, with my kids to watch and then watching out for him. And I think he's choosing not to listen to his aide, since I'm there and doing more. So we had a meeting with his school team to try to iron things out some. They're going to try a few things to see if it will get him back on the right track again. I hope so. I can't pin it down, but it's just not him. He's also had a cold the last 2 weeks, which doesn't help any. Waking up at night once to twice. I haven't been going on my walks all this week, for I know he's going to wake up at 5:30 or 6 or 6:30 and that I'm going to have to get him back to sleep for a bit. We're also going to change his goals on his IEP a bit to add some math in. So- hopefully things will change some for him in the next few weeks.

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Today we made Halloween cookies after school. Here Ryan is helping Matthew with his homework (reading a tory tonight) - something that he has been doing for the last few nights. Matthew is loving having his big brother help him!

Here's the cookies. You can totally tell which ones Matthew decorated! He PILED on the sprinkles! And, then, in true Matthew fashion - he didn't want to eat one of those - he wanted a simpler one! LOL!

We played out back for a bit that night and Ryan was being goofy! He wanted me to take a photo of him jumping so I did - turned out cute! Funny too with Bella right there looking at him! LOL!

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Not a very exciting photo for the 300th, but I had put up our Halloween decorations over a week ago and hadn't taken a photo of it yet. Not too much else going on here today.

The weather is changing today and tomorrow - supposed to drop 20 degrees from 85 to 65!

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Miss Adrian (ST) brought the Spongebob Ants-in-your-pants game today. You once again just loved playing it with her!

As a silly, fun little thing, I painted my fingernails as candy corn today. Tee-hee! I got alot of compliments on them at school.

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Miss Bonnie brought over 2 garbage bags full of Theo's clothes for you today, Matthew! Couldn't have come at a better time, for I am needing to get into the buckets and get larger clothes out for you! She also brought over these toy tools. You and Ryan immediately got them out and set to playing with them. Such fun!

Being that it was Sunday - a trip to WalMart was also called for, where Matthew sweet talked Daddy into buying the Wubzy's Christmas video for him.

I had made French Toast for breakfast and the made a pot of homemade spaghetti sauce to have for dinner. Yum!

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The Go-Kart came out today. A beautiful day today and we spent alot of it outside playing. The neighbor's cactus was blooming and I took a few photos of it.

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MT with Miss Lee today! You took her over to the Halloween books and she graciously read one to you before you started your session today. She also brought you the DVD with the sessions that we taped on it.

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Miss Lynnette (OT) brought Halloween pages for you to color today. You chose a ghost, colored it and then cut it out! Then you hung it on the fridge to show Daddy when he came home.

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Today was Ryan's conference. He got all A's & B's! WTG, Ry!!!!! Then we came straight home for ST with Miss Adrian. She brought over a game for the 2 of them to play. It was all al little much for Matthew and he had a little melt down at the end. But he got his homework done right after. Then we were able to go pick up a Doodlebops Holiday DVD that he had been waiting for for 2 weeks at the library.

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Today was Matthew's Parent/Teacher conference. He has done really well - there's definately room for improvement though. We went to WalMart after school today to buy new earphones for his MP3 player (he pulled on one side and I on the other this morning and snap!) and ended up with Spongebob Halloween DVD for him and the new Transformers movie for Ryan. A little treat for each for their good grades! (No - Ryan's wasn't until the next day, but I had confidence in him!)

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Fall Break is officially over and back to school we went. Back to the grind of packing lunches and walking in the morning for me! Temps cooled down some, so at least it wasn't 100 on the playground!
Ryan was on PNN this morning, newscaster for the school news. The Book Fair is going on this week, so we went to it after school. Ryan got the Wimpy Kid's Do it Yourself book (he also got the new one today) and Matthew picked out a Matter (Cars) book.

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We had a nice, quiet day at home today. We went to Old Country Buffet and had breakfast. Daddy and Matthew went to Home Depot and came back with an ice cream treat for us all! Yum!

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Today was the Buddy Walk! Of course, the weather had to warm up for it - supposed to get to 100 today again! We had a great time though! Matthew got to ride the pony for the 1st time at the Walk. There's usually a long line and we don't wait, but we went over there early enough this time!

This year you were all about the rock walls! You made it up over Daddy's head. Your favorite part was repelling back down! You went up at least 5-6 times. Both of you went on both of the walls that they had there. Ryan made it to the top on one of them!

They had lots of bouncies there, like usual. I think you both went on them all!


Here Matthew is playing the drums at the Nelson Peds booth. 2 of his therapists are from this group - MT & OT!

We had a great, but warm, time! Saw lots of friends, both old and new!

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Catching "catchlights" for an assignment. Made Ryan sit for me, which he wasn't too keen for! LOL! But he did it.
Daddy had to go to CA today to fix an airplane. He should be home soon.
I cleaned house today and put up the Halloween stuff. We had a family from down tha block stop in for a minute to visit, which was nice!
Buddly Walk is tomorrow!!! It supposed to get to 100 tomorrow - go figure. But the BW should be over early enough that it shouldn't really matter.

Matthew looked at me this morning and was explaining something about making a spider with his handprint. Next thing I knew, he had black construction paper (stolen from his brother's room, I found out later - LOL!) and orange crayon and scissors. He proceeded to trace his hand and then cut it out. The thumb was the spiders head and the rest his legs. Still have no idea where it came from - he had to have seen it on TV. But it was really cute!