it's already Wednesday.

which means it's almost Friday.

which is the day my dad has to leave to go back to Illinois.

:(

the times when you want the week to go slowly, it flies by.

i took my dad with me into connor's classroom today.

we went in early to pick him up so we could 'observe' our sweet superboy.

my dad got to talk with connor's teacher and she explained everything she's been doing with my little boy and just how much he knows.

he's so smart!

i'm so glad my dad got to actually see for himself the ways that my sweet boy is learning.

and one of connor's classmates really took fondly to my dad, so that was sweet:)

i'm so proud of my beautiful boy, for all he's accomplished so far in preschool.

he only has 6 weeks left of school!

then it's off to kindergarten next year.....

i am beyond terrified of this.

we've gotten so used to preschool and have grown to love all the teachers so much.

i don't do well with change...

hopefully my beautiful boy handles it much better than his mommy.

life is moving too quickly lately!

but we're thankful every day it moves forward at all.

<3

it was so nice waking up this morning and having my dad here.

aubrey loves it too.

she was so excited to have Papa take her and her friends to school.

yes, Papa does carpool, too.

:)

and it was helpful to have him here while i got connor ready for school.

usually it's a bit tricky for me because connor struggles so much in the morning. 

i cannot leave connor at all because he automatically starts flipping and banging his head the second i am not making some sort of contact with him.

my dad saw what i was talking about this morning.

literally, the second i take my hand off of him, or stand up to leave the room his little body jerks and he flips himself over and gets stuck.

i think he gets scared because he can't breathe well when i haven't had a chance to get everything all suctioned out.

it's sad.

but today my dad was here to help.

as long as someone's next to him, touching him, he's ok.

i think he's glad it was Papa there to comfort him this morning.

love my dad and his little superboy.

<3

it's been a great day because i've spent it with my dad.

he stayed at my sister's last night, but came over to my house after connor was out of school.

he helped me finally tackle the mess that is (was) aubrey's room!

aubrey, of course was on the sidelines trying to referee what she neeeeeeded to keep....

but Papa and i won.

room tackled.

yay!

then we went to my sister's tonight for dinner.

it's always fun seeing my wittle nephew caleb, and aubrey loves her little cousin beyond measure.

it was a good night.

caleb wanted to do a little reading before bedtime so he had to borrow Papa's glasses.

they are the best of buds.

i love my family.

<3

happy sunday!!

it's the happiest of Sundays here in our house because Papa arrived today!!!!

wooooohooooo!!!

so my dear sweet, awesome dad has been in Colorado for the past couple days helping my brother move.

and because he wanted to make it here in time to go to church with us at 11:00, he left my brother's house at 4:00 this morning. 

however, along the way in Wyoming somewhere the roads were blocked off and shut down because of blowing snow, so he had to pull over and sit on the side of the road for 2 and a half hours while he waited for it to open again.

:/

he called me this morning to let me know he'd miss church, but would hopefully be here when we got home.

aubrey was a little (a lot) sad when i told her.  she already had her dress on and was ready for papa to come take her to church! 

we continued on with fancy pants picture time without my dad...

 there's still a beautiful boy that needs to be kissed.

 and kissed some more.

but guess who was waiting in the driveway when we pulled up after church???

Papa's here! Papa's here!  

we're SO glad that Papa's here!

just in time for some final fancy pants pictures.

:)

he caught on quickly.

have i mentioned lately that i love my dad??

cause i do.

<3

today is Undiagnosed Children's Day.

as most people know, my sweet beautiful boy is undiagnosed.

i shared his photo with SWAN's (Syndromes Without a Name) facebook page.

throughout the week, each time someone else shared their child's photo it would show up on my page.

every time another photo popped up i found my heart just breaking more and more each time.   

there are SO many!!   

SO many children are undiagnosed.

too many mothers and families feel what i feel.

there's far too many.

my heart is so heavy and yet so filled with love as i look at each child's sweet face.

i can't get over how many there are.

i love each and every one of them.

and my heart is broken for them at the same time.

it's all too much.

there's far too many.

but there's always that little thing called HOPE.

i have hope. 

for my sweet boy, and for all the other beautiful children out there, undiagnosed.

<3

oh, today....  you've been long.

not necessarily bad long, just long.

my dad is coming on Sunday.

YAY!!!!

i can't wait.

it's always bittersweet though, because i know he won't be staying long enough.

:(

but i'm so happy he's coming so i'll try not to think about the leaving part.

aubrey can hardly contain herself.

that makes me happy. 

 i love that she loves him like i do.

<3

hanging in there.

today i went in to get connor at school and found him like this...

ya know, just hanging around.

 i love how many neat things there are for him to experience at school.

he likes to swing!

his body really seems to relax when he's swinging, for a little while anyway:)

i gave him a push and his little feet started kicking, almost like he was trying to pump.  

he must know more about swinging than i thought.

 my sweet beautiful boy, just dangling from the ceiling.

see mom, i'm hanging in there...

i know you are, buddy.

<3