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On Saturday, March 1st, we spent the morning with everyone’s favorite Occupational Therapist, Miss Roni as she evaluated Hansen for OT needs. As we suspected, he has some areas of concern that we are going to work on over the summer, but on the whole he is doing wonderfully well. Once we get the evaluation report back, we will really start seeing some improvements. Aimee was so happy to see Miss Roni again, she really did relate to her and she has missed her play sessions and hugs. I have to say that Miss Roni used to come to our house for Aimee’s therapy, but since then she has moved into a custom fitted facility. It is awesome and all three kids did not want to leave, they had such a blast. One thing that Roni pointed out to me immediately is that Aimee has quite a pronounced lisp. I knew she had one, but had gotten so used to it that I no longer noticed. Needless to say, I now hear it all the time and we will be working on some exercises to try and address it. Of course, our insurance won’t cover the speech therapy, but we never really thought it would, since they don’t like to cover much – lol.

Miss Roni’s office shares the same parking lot as ACE Educational Supplies, who just happened to be holding a huge sale that day. Always one for a bargain, we spent a good 2-3 hours wandering around and buying things we didn’t really need. The highlight of the morning was when Aimee and I were outside browsing and Rich, Joyce, Hansen and Cadence were in-line to pay inside. I received a frantic call on my cell from Richard to say that Cadence had disappeared. I cannot begin to describe the scene, the store was packed with people and it was impossible to move around easily, the parking lot was also full of stalls and people. Basically, it was one of the last places you would want to lose a teeny-tiny 4 year old with a habit of hiding when she is worried. I was doing okay standing guard on the only exit, until it became apparent that Cady was not going to suddenly reappear. They were the longest 5 minutes of my life until Richard called to say he had found her in the framing department looking very scared. He knew she was really scared when he picked her up and she clung to him with a death grip. We made as speedy an exit as we could and headed for some much needed lunch. Cady was very clingy and did not let us out of her sight for the rest of the day.

That afternoon was spent at the Manatee Bay Family Fun Day. It was a Wild West party in the park. The kids had a great time doing various arts and crafts, milking a ‘cow’, dancing, coloring and seeing all their friends from school. It really was a lot of fun and the highlight was when Aimee won a prize in the raffle. She was so surprised that she was the only one in the family not to hear her name called out. She was absolutely thrilled to find that she had won a clear plastic cowboy boot filled with trinkets and trash (or land-fill as we like to call it) from the school stationery store. At the end of the picnic we went to the playground area to burn off all that sugar. Aimee was overjoyed to meet up with one of her preschool friends (Aleksandra), who she hasn't seen in a long while. I have to say that I think Alek had a wonderful way with the little ones- check out the photos beow It had been a long and event-filled day, but also one of those great family days where you just look back and smile.