Hi all!
Paul and I are absolutely amazed at how quickly the last few months have gone by. With 4 children, we are so busy that the days seem to pass by so quickly. We are learning to not take our time as a family for granted, and to carve out more time for memory making. Sometimes that means spending a bit more money to do something fun, but it is worth it to have the memory.
This children are doing amazing in school. Ethan and Isaac have excelled in school this year! We've watched as Ethan has made a huge change in his maturity level from last year at Cherry Creek Academy. This year he takes more of a responsibility for his own school work. I have very little contact with the teachers, and Ethan is the one who discusses missed assignments and problems with the teachers on his own. His principal encourages parents to let their children advocate for themselves starting in 2nd grade so the students get used to discussing issues on their own. Isaac is excelling in school! He loves to read, and works to finish a chapter book every week now! He makes school look easy. Elizabeth just loves preschool! She was sick for almost a week recently, and she begged to go to school every day. She is working on writing all of her lowercase letters and learning how to read. David is finally talking!! Thanksgiving weekend was a huge weekend for him, and he just keeps moving right along to add words to his vocabulary. I think we may be at a point where we can remove our speech behaviorist from our weekly visits and focus strictly on speech therapy. I am so happy to finally hear "mama" it just makes my heart melt.
As of Monday, December 3rd, Paul start a new job! God has blessed us yet again :) I am amazed everyday at the simple blessings in our life. God has been so good to us and we are so appreciative of all the big and little ways He works in our life. Paul has moved on from his job as a Senior Mysql Engineer at Godaddy to a Senior Database Administrator for a small local company called TrackVia. This is a huge promotion and opportunity for Paul as he will be working directly for the CTO at this company. We are both excited for where this opportunity will take Paul in his career.
Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We have much to be thankful for each year, but especially in 2012!
