yes we are still here

Sorry this little family blog of ours gets so neglected!  Here is a quick up date for you!

Kyan is still LOVING preschool.  He loves his teacher and has made some friends.  It is so cute to see him flourish is this new environment!   Kyan also started Cubbies this year on Wednesday nights.  He gets to hang out with his "best friend" Eli and looks forward to it all week.  He just had a growth spurt and now has lost almost all of his baby face.  He is looking so much like a big boy!  I miss my baby boy but love the little boy that he is becoming!  He is becoming very social and it is getting hard to keep up with his social calender!

Lanyah is also growing leaps and bonds.  She enjoys spending some one-on-one time with mommy when Kyan is at preschool.   We had the Early Childhood teachers from the School District come out and evaluate Nyah for Services.  Because of her microtia she is eligible for services to help her develop language and speech with her hearing loss.  She will be working with a Deaf and Hard of Hearing teacher weekly.  The team assessed Nyah in all areas and found that she needed some extra help in another area too.  She also is going to receive services to help with some of her adaptive skills.  She is going to be working on her balance and core strengthening.  {You may have noticed that Nyah is less-then graceful.}  The Occupational Therapist (OT) will also be working on Nyah's eating and swallowing.  {You also probably noticed that Nyah is very drooly}   We are very impressed with the team of teachers that will be working with us and are excited to start these services together.  Nyah charmed the pants off each of the teachers that came out and they were all fighting over who got to work with her.  She is a very social little girl. 

Jason is still loving his job.  Which is such a blessing to our family!  I am still working on my craft blog and have been fairly successful at it.  It is fun to do and also a nice outlet for my creativity!

Hopefully I will have some pictures of our family Halloween costumes this weekend!

School and Court

We had a BIG week here in the Norman household! Kyan went started Pre-school and Nyah had her Adoption Finaliztion hearing! Huge steps for our family!

Here are some fist day of School pics of Ky-guy:

Here are some pictures of Nyah's Court Hearing! 

It is all legal and offical that we are her parents! Hooray!

We ate at Cossetta's after to celebrate!  YUMMY!

The Great Minnesota Get Together!

Jason and I went to the state fair last week to celebrate out anniverary!  We had a good time and here are some of the pictures that I took with my IPOD. 

We watched an extreme tramopline show... very cool stuff these guys can do!

We also watched the Lumber Jack IronJack show.  It was WAY fun!

Saw a parade!

Ate some YUMMY FOOD!

green grass and sun flare

At the beginning of spring, it rained and rained and rained and rained.   We were getting ready to build an arc!  One good thing that happened was our GREEN grass!  It was great for taking some fun pictures!

Here is my attempt at catching a sun flare!  I like it!

I also love how Nyah's skirt is blowing in the wind and how Ky's head is tilted back! 

4th of July in the park

We had a VERY low key 4th.  We stayed home and rode our bikes to the park.  No fireworks... no picnics... no stress! :) 

Here are some pics of our time.

In the bike trailer... ready to go! 

Slide Water

I made a very little water slide by putting the sandbox cover under the slide and filling it with water from the sprinkler.  The kids LOVE it!  Kyan keeps asking for the "slide water" again! 

Orange Driving

Kyan calls Home Depot "Orange Driving" because of the cool carts they have that look like orange race cars.  He asks all the time to go "orange driving"  and nearly pees his pants with excitement when we get to go.  Ahhhh, the simple pleasures of life!  

He has also gotten Nyah to be equally excited about it. They both squeal with delight when they get in the car!  And they "drive" with the steering wheels the whole trip. 

Here is Kyan "helping" daddy move some rock... he has a little shovel that he would pick up one or two rocks each time.  It was so cute watching him work with his dad!

Play park

Here we are at a play park in down town White Bear Lake.  These pics are from early June which was a bit cold some days.  {that is why the kids are wearing sweat shirts}  I loved all the "older vintage" equipment!