Colorado Bound.

My mom and I are headed to Colorado tomorrow morning with Mallory for her 6 month check up at the Children's Hospital.

Maxton's Birthday Party

We celebrated Maxton's 4th Birthday today.
We were blessed that Mallory did so well.
She enjoyed being around all of the family and friends.
She loved the food.
She went crazy over the pinata.
It was a very enjoyable time.

Mallory reaching high for the pinata.

She grabbed ahold of a corner of the pinata to use as a hat.

Not that she likes candy, but she went ahead and stashed some to take home.  To share with her brother and sister that is. :)

Hanging with Dad.

Mallory really wanted to go to work with her Dad this morning.
She thought that if she went ahead and loaded up in his truck that he just might take her.

Highlights and Lowpoints.

This week has gone somewhat better with settling into a school routine.  We have had some challenges though.

I'm looking forward to our trip to Children's Hospital next month. 

I think that Mallory may need some adjustments with her meds.  Again.

Today, we missed the bus. 

Really it was just 10 minutes early. 

But, Mallory wasn't ready. 

She still had shoes to get on and glasses to find.

I sent the bus driver on her way and told Mallory that I would take her to school.  She was pretty excited. 

She skipped her way in to the lunch line, gave me a big thumbs-up and said "Bye Mama!"

I thought to myself "This is going so well.", that is until I went to leave.

Meltdown.  Drama. Chaos.

Guess it's time to work on a better plan for drop off.

On the brighter side, we were working on the house last night.  Painting trim.

I had folded laundry earlier that day.  Mallory took it upon herself to take everyone's laundry and place it in their bedrooms.  Without being told.  What an accomplishment!

In the news.

Mallory made the Salina Journal on Monday, August 22nd.

Done right.

Hannah came home from school today and she was upset. A friend of Hannah's said some not so nice things to a little girl with special needs at school.  Hannah stood up for this little girl, even though she didn't even know her name. She talked to me for quite some time about this incident.  She was mostly upset that her friend would say these things.. She said "That would be like somebody picking on my sister and I don't like it."  I take pride in knowing that Mallory's siblings take pride in her and want to protect, but am amazed at the fact that they carry that on to other children with special needs.  Deep down it tells me that we have done something right.