Author: Doris

I think Vince has managed to go to the pool at least 5 or 6 times this summer – none of which involved either me or Jeremy taking him to the pool. We hope that trend continues.

Edda can be unhappy during our outings. It’s always a challenge to cheer her up when she’s in a funk. Lately, the most reliable technique has been to make a sound like a chicken. Jeremy really got into it the other day – adding the flapping arms and scratching feet. He gets extra points for doing this in front of his parents 😉

We went up to Bard this past weekend for Father’s Day – we Skyped across the Atlantic Ocean with our cousins.

Almost – this is the last week of school! No homework – just end-of the year picnics and ice cream!

Here’s Jeremy, just doing a little bit of home repair before he goes off to work.

Last week, I completely overhauled the tool side of the garage. This is a progress picture showing my love of the pegboard. Very proud of myself.

Every summer, downtown Rockville has free live music/movie/events scheduled every week (maybe even twice a week). This is our 4th summer and I don’t think I’ve ever made any of the performances. This week, we decided to go see Seamus Kennedy on Thursday night.

Vince having Five Guys fries:

The best part of the evening was when Vince took Edda to the front of the crowd when Seamus Kennedy asked for all the children in the audience to come up. They sang The Unicorn Song – and Vince helped Edda do all the hand motions. Very sweet.

We are very lucky that this summer Vince and Edda get to go to the same camp! They are going to the JCC camp for most of the summer and it sounds great (I hope it’s great). We get to explain a lot of (mainly food) Jewish things to the kids like why you can’t order a bacon sandwich at the Subway shop that is in the JCC or why there is soy cheese on the kosher turkey sandwich. We went to an orientation of sorts last weekend and Edda was asleep when she met her counselor who had to tell her – no sleeping at camp! (I’m not sure how well that is going to work out).

Vince eating a kosher sandwich:

The big hit of the orientation was tie-dying a shirt – I did Edda’s as she was fast asleep.

Vince has been seeing Edda’s OT for a few months now to work on some handwriting issues – mainly persistent letter reversals and various spacing issues. He loves working with Deb and getting a few minutes at the end of each session to run free through all the toys that line the walls of the therapy room.

It always amuses me that when I’m in the waiting room with both the kids and there are other parents also in waiting room. And then – I do NOT send in the severely disable child into the treatment room. Ha ha, talk about a curveball! Yes! Both my kids need OT.

We always look for an excuse to have pizza for dinner ;). A bunch of Jeremy’s coworkers were in our neighborhood during the week (which never happens – we live in the boonies) and so we took them out for pizza. Edda was thrilled.

Vince just loves toddlers – sometimes it makes me think I should have a handful more kids. Except for the fact that I have no more time or energy ;).

Took Edda to the orthodontist last week. I love Edda’s orthodontist. He is really sweet and has a nephew with Angelman syndrome and showed me the bite marks on his arm that he got when he was playing with his nephew over Memorial Day weekend. Ahhh, yes, we all know about getting bitten! Yeow! We go yearly to make sure that Edda’s teeth are coming in OK – this time he mentioned that he could fix Edda’s under-bite with a mouth guard-type thing that Edda would wear a couple of hours every day at home. No molds necessary. He had already successfully realigned his nephew’s jaw and said it worked really well, although he did mention that his newphew enjoyed chewing the appliance so much that he went through half a dozen of them. Interesting. I think we will go ahead and try this out and see if Edda minds having this plastic thing in her mouth for a few hours a day. Low risk – perhaps no underbite anymore!

It has been a week full of teeth issues – Maxi had a rotten molar. Apparently her mom did not bother with good prenatal care – Maxi just has bad, bad teeth. We got it yanked last Friday. Vince insisted that I bring home the rotten tooth – he took one look at it and said that I could throw it out. Thank goodness.