My computer is working!

Beautiful flower in our garden :o)

Well a lot has happened in the Wade household over the last few weeks. Ainsley got braces and what fun that has been...NOT. They dripped some of the cleaner on her chin and they did not realize it until the whole process was done. Since it was on there for almost an hour, it burned her skin and she also had an allergic reaction to it, so for the past several weeks I have been diligent about putting ointments and creams on it. It is finally healed, but now we do have a relatively noticeable pinkish, purple scar :(. In asking around friend told me of a great product available through the dermatologist so I just started that cream and she had a reaction to it. Grrrr! Braces are bad enough! She also has a permanent retainer in the roof of her mouth to correct her crossbite so we are cranking that daily. On a brighter note, she got into Joe Mitchell school so all the kids will be in one place next year!!! I am so relieved and excited. She's a bit sad to leave her friends but is pretty understanding. She's had two field trips in the last week and she wasn't really into the agricultural one but really enjoyed the historical one at Ravenswood (an estate that was built in Livermore in 1885). 

We also just found out that she's moving up to level 5 in her gymnastics which is super exciting for her. She originally did not make it and we were fine with that because she was afraid of her skills but about a week later she started praying in and her fear resolved. So we asked her what she wanted to do and she said she wanted to move up and the coaches agreed :). It has been pretty exciting to see God answer her prayers and make himself a real to her!

This was the skill that was giving her nightmares!

On to Khalif....We just had a Mother's Day celebration in Khalif's class last week and it was a really nice event. He was a little bit embarrassed to talk in front of this class but he felt good about it afterward. He's been having a lot of those feelings lately when he is in a new situation. We have taken him to jujitsu a few times and he is a natural but embarrassed for some reason. We decided to give gymnastics a try and he loved it! Makes it easier on me since I am already there, so he will swim and do gymnastics :). 

We had court this week and I was hoping that with our new judge we might actually make some progress in the courtroom, but we ended up getting bumped multiple times and accomplished absolutely nothing. I got called back the next day at 2 and sent home about an hour later with the new court date of June 15th. Will this ever end??!!
There's nothing really new with Reggie… He is definitely growing up and giving us a little more attitude. I am hopeful that this is a short phase.  He went to a swim meet a couple weeks ago it was canceled because fiberglass shards were leaking into the pool. Thankfully he had no issues. His front crawl is really good and we were hoping to see how he would do a meet because it has been a long time. He is into paper airplanes right now and still building away with his Legos. Here's one of his movies that he made:

Reggie being goofy:

Ryan and I just celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary! It's a bit mind-boggling to think of where we started and where we are now. I'm glad that I have him to do life with :). We are a great team . 

This post has been a long overdue because my computer died and Ryan surprised me with a Mac but it is so different and I just do not have the time to try to figure it out so after two hours of frustration we decided to send it back. Ryan got a PC a couple days ago and he was working to get that up and running and it kept shutting down for no apparent reason. So that is going back too, but the one good thing is I tried the power cord on my old computer and it fired up. So, I just got my new power cord today and I'm up and running!  Nothing like an $8 fix.  

Spring pictures: