Family Birthdays

Many of you may know this already, but for those that do not, most of my side of the family lives in Texas. We have some in Dallas and Houston and some here in Austin. Even though we live in the same state, between work and kids and life in general we don't get to see each other as often as we would like. We do try to get everyone together every few months. This weekend we all gathered and celebrated family birthdays from February, March and April. Casey was thrilled about the idea of getting some of her birthday presents early. What kid wouldn't like that idea?

My family came in for a late lunch on Saturday, followed by cake and presents. Casey was being good, but she wasn't really interested in much. On Sunday almost everyone came back before heading home. On Sunday, Casey was ready to play. She was wiggling all over the place trying to get to where the action was. Eventually she ended up in the playroom with her cousin (he's 1 year older). They were pretty cute. I sat with Casey on the floor and she was working really hard to keep her head up and pay attention. Riley is very into presidents and was teaching Casey all about them. He would tell her about one, then ask her if she wanted to know about another one. If she said yes he would go into detail, if not then he would go down the list until he found one she wanted to hear about. He would write it up on her chalk board and she was loving it. They were funny.

Casey was supposed to go with a class at her school to the library tomorrow. She has been looking forward to it for weeks. When we picked her up today though they told us they had to postpone a week for testing :(

Casey lost another tooth this weekend. That's 4 now. She has 3 others that are super loose. I expect she will loose more any day now. She LOVES to wake up and find treats from the tooth fairy. We have to read her tooth fairy book before she can go to sleep too.

That's about it for now. I will be sure to post after she goes to the library next week. I can't wait to hear all about it. I am sure she will have a great time. As always, we hope everyone is well.

Updates

Spring break is over tomorrow and we go back to Casey's usual schedule. I am so glad that she had the week off; she needed it. Last week was a bad one. Casey had some GI issues that had us about ready to pack up and head to the ER a week ago Wednesday. Right as we were about to load up, she started to perk up and seemed to be coming around. She had some GI bleeding, and fever and she would not tolerate her food at all for a few days. Over last weekend we were able to get her to tolerate her food (we had to dilute it with pedialite and work our way up to formula). We did finally get her back on track. Casey used this week off to rest and get back to normal.

She has been playing some and seems to be doing much better now. We have no idea if the issues were just Casey or if she had some sort of bug. We are very happy she is doing better and that we were able to avoid the hospital.

Casey has a full week with school, therapy and some doctor appointments (all routine- nothing major). Then next weekend some family will be in town for a couple of days. She will be a busy girl. I will try to get some new pics to post and share. As always, we hope everyone is well.

Play for All

The city of Round Rock had the official grand opening for the new accessible park today - Play for All. Casey was having a pretty good morning and told us yes when we asked if she wanted to go. They did a great job. There are all kinds of fun things at the park, and it's not too far from our house. It was a little windy, and after a little bit the wind was bothering Casey some. She was able to hang out long enough to check things out and of course, get her face painted. She loves face painting.

On the way home Casey was so worn out that we
had barely left the parking lot and she was already sound asleep.

I am sure we will be back to visit again soon, and often. I am so glad there are things like this for kids with special needs nearby.