Summer is wrapping up- school starts in two weeks! All three of my girls will be in school. Devanne will start her first year of middle school, Adey will continue to go to Early Intervention (2 days a week) and Jocey will start a private Christian based pre-school (2 days a week, 3 hrs each day). We have been gathering school supplies and school clothes over the last few weeks, no doubt these kids will be prepared for the new school year.
For Jessica and I, well mostly Jessica it will be a school year of carting kids around to different activities. Weekends will center around soccer games. Devanne already has soccer 2x a week and will soon have weekend games and Jocey will also have soccer 1x per week. Jessica and I will be coaching Jocey's team. I haven't EVER played soccer but I imagine for 3 and 4 year olds soccer practice may feel a lot like herding cats. When I coached Devanne's T-Ball team it certainly felt like that. Even still it was a lot of fun and I suspect this will be as well.
We spend yesterday evening at the park, which turned out to be the most memorable park trips of our lives. Adey walked nearly a mile to the park and then she met a friend, a little girl who was probably 2 years old. She did not speak English, and Jessica said it was a match made in heaven because Adey doesn't speak much (understandable) English. They gave each other the stair down, Adey waved and said Hi. And then they proceeded to climb the stairs to the play structure together and go down the slide together, laughing. They did this several times, each just looking at one another and laughing. It was the first time we have really seen Adey play WITH another child. Not just next to, but interacted and responded to another child. It was amazing.
It reminds me that for us, as adults we don't always have to have the words to be successful. We only have to have the hope and the will. The way will appear.
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