You know your a mom when...

You are on a nice leisurely 4 mile run and you stop the last mile because you see a woolly bear caterpillar that you know your son would love. So although I only got 3 miles in for the day and I had to carry that thing all the way home, Declan was thrilled! We had a jar all ready (with the lady bug that we had gotten months ago - who died obviously) so we prepped his home and gave him a name - Tommy Tom of course... After talking to my friend google, the beautiful woolly bear turns into a gross disgusting moth - who knew! We will continue to feed it grass and clean his home, until he freezes himself and turns into a moth in the spring - how fun!

We also had Stevie's 6 month review with Early Intervention today. We love the case manager that we have and it was great to see her again!  We meet with her and Stevie's therapist formally every 6 months to check on her progress and decide what we want to do for the next 6 months. Stevie is doing great and everyone is really happy about her progress. She's met all the milestones that we have set for her and we will now reduce the number of days she gets PT. The therapist currently comes twice a week and we will go down to once a week or possibly twice a month. Although she's walking 100% now, she still needs to work on her stiffness and keep stretching her muscles, before she turns pro as a body builder. It will also depend upon what happens with her speech therapy. We don't have her assessment back yet, but we should know if she qualifies in the next few weeks (we'll find out next week regarding the other two girls and if they qualify). So hopefully we'll be changing up the focus for Stevie and we'll determine what we need for the other two girls soon.

We also got some other very interesting news... The school district that we live in has an Early Intervention Preschool program (at the Elementary School that Declan goes to). I've heard about these, but honestly there aren't a lot of districts that either have one or have a decent one. Lucky for us, we live in one of the best school districts in NJ, but what's even better is that this program sounds great! So basically once kids turn 3, they are no longer eligible for state EI and they transition to the school district. Kids have to qualify, but if they do the preschool is free! And better yet, it's for toddlers that have developmental delays and/or speech delays. It's a year away so who knows, but at least we know we might have options! And they don't have to be potty trained for it - because seriously, we won't be potty training these 3 until they are at least 12 :-) It's hard to imagine that we are already talking preshool for these three - ughhhhhh!!!!