Tuesday April 21

Today was Elsie's field trip to the Discovery Center.

She has been so excited!!!!!

I was really sad not to be able to go.

I feel like I have missed out on so much this year at the kids school....

Next year will be better :).

Thankfully Stacia went, and she sent me these cute pictures of Elsie having a blast.

She had such a great time and talked about it all afternoon.

She also told me about a new friend she met at the park.

They ate lunch at the park.

She said they met a 'special needs' girl.

She said she couldn't talk, but her mom talked to them.

And she smiled a lot at them.

Anyway, she went on and on about it and it was so cute.

Then she asked me "Mom, am I a 'special needs kid'?"

It kind of threw me off guard.

I told Elsie that she did need a little extra help with things, but she will be able to do anything that the other kids can do.

That she is just a regular kid, and that she does need help with some stuff too.

Her eyes got wide and she smiled and said "You mean I can jump?!?1?"

It was so sweet.....genuine excitement at the thought of maybe someday being able to jump.

I told her that she will for sure be able to jump someday.

She can do anything she wants to.

I know she can.

It will take a lot more work....but she can and she will.

Elsie bug is my hero :)

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After school, the boys came and started filling the hole up for Brent.

Max has been eager to do 'work' for Brent according to his mom.

Such a sweet kiddo.

So the boys didn't get it all the way filled, but they did cover the pipe up, so that was great.

I got to go on another run!

Yay!

But I was cut short.

I had a dog run up to me and it was so scary......he was baring his teeth, and mad and I didn't know what to do!

Every time I moved it made him mad....so I stayed put.

I didn't know what I was gonna do.

He kept barking at me, but backed away a bit.

So I grabbed my phone and called Vern to come and pick me up.

Luckily she was home :)

Yikes, that was super scary.

He probably wouldn't have bit me if I would have just kept running, but it wasn't worth the chance.

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Stairs guy finished getting the steps put in today.

Next he will put in the newell posts and rail in, and then I need to stain them.

Then he can put in the posts.

It's gonna be beautiful!

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Randy Barnack and his wife came and visited this evening.

It was great for Brent to see him and talk for a bit.

He has been pretty good today, but hasn't gotten up very much......so he is kinda stiff.

Hopefully we can get up and around more tomorrow.