I Got Nothin'

Landon's rendition of "Swimming With Gloria"

So that is pretty much it, nothing to blog about really. We bought a new house, close on this one on Thur. Have endured another round of pink eye/ ear infections, marveled at the fact that the doctors on base refuse to prescribe antibiotics of any kind including for pink eye. Luckily I have connections and at the very least I got pink eye meds. because really doc how DO you tell the difference between bacterial and viral pink eye, AND how exactly do you get rid of it if everyone just keeps passing it around. Okay, I am done with that topic. We have been camping in our house for about a month now, it's all cool, just a few delays, and thank God, my husband wanted to do a partial move otherwise it would be air mattress city. Cotton is thrilled to have had the week off, due to illness, so much so that today he told his teacher "eye hurt", "ear hurt" to which the teacher asked him if his eye and ear hurt, and he dutifully replied "yes." As in I just answered a yes no question properly.... I am thinking about alerting the media. Needless to say despite the fact that NOTHING is actually wrong with him we picked him up from school.

Speaking of school I'm a little uninspired by the last half of the year. There may be many factors that have led up to this, but Cotton's teacher was nice enough to put together a packet for Cotton's new school. On top it had a letter, a very unimpressive, heart stopping, bathroom crying, report of my son's ineptness. The part that sticks in my throat the most is that she said, "Cotton carries a communication device around with him, although he has never spontaneously used it." So all the training I made you attend, and all the times I came up to the school to demonstrate what Cotton could do ummm.... don't count, and let's not forget that he does half of his school work on it???? I'm pretty pissed to be honest, and what sucks worse is, that they never were able to see what Cotton can really do!!! This is something that will 100% be remedied at the next school, as in we do this, or nothing else. Because frankly, you don't know much about him, if he can't, or more likely won't communicate with you. I take full blame, there were a few times I went up to the school and his device was neatly placed in his cubby, because the other kids would not leave it alone.. gggrrr... I should have stopped that then and there.... I'm just mad at myself, and the school. They work hard, I know this, they can't do everything, I know this, but it just feels like we missed out on a really big opportunity this year. We are taking the summer off from all school, and or theraputic endeavors. We all need a break.

But, other than that small bump things are good, and we are sooo looking forward to summer. One week of school left and it is on with the rest of it. Landon is so excited to go fishing, and camping, and swimming, and I could go on, he has a long list. I love the ages my kids are at right now, they are old enough that we have more freedom with what we can do, but young enough to still thoroughly enjoy our company.