The Strasser's

Well we have another meeting coming up in the beginning of march for the game plan of what they want to do with Evan, basically where to start with him. I am very glad that the early intervention is in full swing with helping with Evan. I wasn't to pleased with the early intervention before where is paperwork was lost in the program. We were told about a machine that would be extremely helpful with Evan since he doesn't talk. It's a machine and there are pictures and buttons with each picture, for a example there would be a picture of a cup and you push the button that goes with that picture and it says " I want a drink".  So excited to see if it works. But I will post more about the game plan for Evan after the meeting.

For Valentine's day we stayed in. I made Lasagna, a salad, garlic bread,  and we also had some sparkling cider. Cory got me a key fob  for the van since my last one took a spin through the washer. It is so nice to have one again. That was basically our Valentine's Day.  

I have sat down several times lately to try posting but I haven't managed to get a post done. So the last time I was talking about Evan and Owen getting observed for early intervention. Evan does qualify for early intervention, because he is delayed. He is making more babbling noises. And is climbing up the stairs hasn't been able to figure out how to climb down yet, and climbs on the couches and has figured out how to climb off. I finally moved him into a toddler bed, because Emma needed to start sleeping in the crib. Ok so back to the early intervention stuff. Physical therapy has started up some the lady came to our house to get to know him and see what he was able to do. Evan is going to get AFO's to give a little more support for his legs. Not sure which kind yet. But next week I am having two physical therapist's coming to look at him and see which kind and what the plan will be for him, such as what to do for physical therapy and what kind of AFO. I have h...

So this week Evan is getting reevaluated for early intervention. And we are going to have Owen tested for speech therapy. And than there is no school tomorrow, and friday because it's a teacher work day. Hoping for more nice weather this week.  

So yesterday while we were at the beach Cory went out on the jetty and got some video of the surfer's. I guess we were getting some pretty good waves because Japan had a good storm. 

Alyssa talking to Emma

 So we went to the beach yesterday and  played some in the sand. It got up to 58 degrees.  Still kind of cold but it was fun to play in the sand.  Playing on the beach.   Owen drawing in the sand with a stick.

Well we got back from our trip and we were still a little sick and we wanted to make sure the germs were officially gone. But there happened to be a day were it was really sunny and very nice. And we had been missing seeing the ocean and seeing the sun. It was good to get back home. We actually went to see if we could see any whales because they were migrating while we were gone and we came home on the tail end of the migration. We did some spouting from them, but we didn't see there bodies.

So we went to Salem for New Years. And our niece was having her baptism. We actually didn't end up staying for the baptism because we ended up getting the stomach bug that has been going around and I ended up getting it first, I guess which was nice.  Here are some pictures of the kids playing twister.  Sefa he was getting ready to push his sister over.

While we were in Salt Lake we went around temple square and saw some of the sites. There some things we didn't get to see so hopefully next time we can go see them. 

Well we went to Cory's brothers wedding. We actually were able to go through a session.  Thanks to some of the strasser's for watching our kids. Here are some pictures that were taken, I know lots of the same pose but they are fun to see. Diana doing the pose Most of the grand kids on the strasser side The Shawn pose Getting ready for a family picture