January 16, 2011
January 11, 2011
Look at me being a blogger again...
So much for me not blogging- I am back on the bandwagon! Today Leah had her "end of the semester celebration" for the pre-school she attended at Hampden Academy. The program was adorable! The children sang a song, had an ice cream party, we got to watch a video of clips of all of the great activities they did this semester and then each child was called up front to receive their award! It has been such a great first "school" experience for Leah. Luckily they will have another 8 week block of it from March to May so she is not done with her school friends yet!
January 5, 2011
The significance of skiing...
Leah learned how to ski this weekend. Sure many 3 year olds and younger do it all of the time, so why so significant to us? Well as Andrew and I were riding up the chair lift alone this weekend we both reflected on how 3 years ago we would go skiing to distract ourselves from waiting for a referral and "enjoy" the alone time while we had it to do things like ski, 2 years ago we would go skiing to distract ourselves from waiting for guardianship and wondering when we would get to travel to India. Last year, we barely went skiing because we would not yet leave Leah overnight or hardly for a long afternoon as she had only been ours for less than a year. And now, here we are, this year taking our daughter to Sugarloaf and teaching her how to ski. We truly dreamed of this for years when we would see other adorable kids on the slopes and could only hope one day we would have a family to do that with ourselves.Some people have big reflection moments on birthdays, or "gotcha days" or anniversaries of referrals. We have them on chairlifts.
The last piece of the significance did not occur to us until we were on our way home after the long weekend. Leah was born with bilateral club feet. When we accepted her referral we were not even sure she would be walking "normal" by age 3 let alone running, skipping and now skiing. Amazing.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)