A Journey with Love and Laughter

Read about our family as we journey through life as a family, with siblings, school and spina bifida, and lots of fun and laughter along the way!

Showing posts with label sparks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sparks. Show all posts

Saturday, June 20, 2015

Summer weekend

Katheryn had Sparks camp this weekend!
2 days and nights of fun (all by herself)

Katheryn wasn't worried about leaving us, grabbed her stuff and was off with her friends!
She had so much fun! And at the end of camp graduated from Sparks with the rest of her troop.


She got very annoyed with my picture taking when we picked her up.
I expect I will see this face in my future... I just thought I had another 8 years or so...


Nickolas got to have his parents all to himself this weekend. So we went to a picnic at Grandview!
Queen Elsa was there


And Nick got to show us his accessible play ground


And he had a blast swinging on the swing!


And showing off his Ninja moves. He played with his friends from school that were there.












We did find out that Katheryn fills in a lot of the empty space. I don't know if I have ever heard Nickolas talk so much!
We sat and watched a couple of movies and he talked through the whole thing (until he fell asleep).
What is this, why is that happening, who are those people...

Having each child by themselves this weekend just shows Kyle and me how much they are growing up!

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Scout!

 Katheryn has been enjoying Sparks, the first step of Girl Guides.
She has had a lot of fun, selling cookies and playing games. Doing crafts and running around the gym with her friends once a week.


I thought that it would be fun for Nick to do the boy-version of Girl Guides as well. Which is scouts. I contacted them in the summer but didn't hear back from them regarding accessibility and the Beaver program.
OK, I thought, that is my answer.
But they contacted me the middle of September, and after a bit of back and forth we went to try out a night.

Nick had a blast!
There were games and crafts. They had some racing games the scout leader weren't sure he could play. I said that yes he could play and race, he will just be slow.
Nick felt very included. They do some hiking, so we'll see how he does in his wheelchair, but the leaders seem to be very inclusive with what they will do.
And none of the other kids seemed to treat Nick different at all.


So we officially have a Beaver Scout!
Nick is very excited

And if you want some girl guide cookies (mint-chocolate) we have some of that too!


(and popcorn coming soon)