I’m too tired to write more.
Joanna makes OT awesome.
Contrived lessons made us laugh.
Pool time!
My daughter Anna is almost ten years old and we went on a mother daughter retreat!
After swimming at the hotel pool.
It was a cold, windy, wet, day on the Oregon coast. Not as windy as the day before, though, or we wouldn’t have gone out.
Brrr!
Anna and I ate at Camp 18 on the way home from our mother-daughter retreat at the beach.
The beam is the largest in North America or something crazy like that.
The checkout station is inside a trunk!
Huge slabs of wood. Huge carved wood statues. Chainsaws longer than I am tall.
Front porch.
Just a normal day at home.
The park is closed to cars for the winter.
I don’t know why Carolyn’s coat is on her head.
The kids ran ahead!
Love
Four generation spread of Davis men.
We had lunch at Dairy Queen first. Then went to the park. Then went back and ate ice cream. 😀
It was cold, but sunny!
Generations of memories here.
A visit with Great Grandpa is never complete without a walk at the park by his home.
This just held a receipt, but it made my heart beat fast! Once we get an approval notice in one of these envelopes, we send paperwork across the ocean for the next stage of Daniel’s adoption!
Our septic alarm had been going off for awhile. It was floooOOOOded. These guys had a hard time of it, but we think it’s fixed now!
Observing… and not plugging their nose at the moment.
This… is an electricity free siphon pump.
Septic guys to the rescue…
The littler cousins.
Anna holding her one year old cousin. This makes me emotional.
Our little dog Benny is a bit of a lover.
Morning meetings.
Me after a run.
Playing the wii at my cousin Lydia’s.
No snow meant fun outside!
Jordan found the sun spot!
Learning about zoodles at Lydia’s!
Hanging out and chatting with Kevin.
Playing chess at Grandma and Kevin’s.
Maggie loves her stretchy suit thing.
My uncle Kevin and grandma have a proper home theatre inside their house! We had fun watching Shrek 2 in there.
Learning how to communicate during OT:
Playing in the pool during our retreat!
There was lots of snow coming down on the coastal range as we drove home, so Anna documented it:
Throwing rocks into the river at Grandpa Davis’ is a timeless adventure:
Jordan coping with the stress of new places very well here:
You probably don’t want to watch these videos… they’re just simple recordings of Jordan crying. We went on a trip to see family for two nights. It was, for Jordan, grueling. He cried each night and was very close to unresponsive to our ministrations. Or rather, he was unresponsive off and on, but never stopped crying, just looked at us or took a deep breath before beginning again. Phew. It was hard. Is hard? People ask why he has a hard time and I don’t even know how to answer that. It’s simply that we’re asking more from him than he can do. He tries and then he become weary and he melts down. For a long time. Sorry to end on a sad note!
Driving – lasted 1-2 hours.
Home – lasted half an hour.