A Boo-tiful October!

October is upon us and we have been busy as ever the past month. Lia started her second year of preschool on September 5th. This year she gets to ride the bus to school. It is a special bus just for preschoolers and it picks up and drops off right at our driveway - you can't ask for better service than that!

So far she is loving her new school. It is 4 days/week (Mon.-Thurs) for 3.5 hours. During her days there, she gets OT & PT once/week (each) and speech therapy 2x/wk.

She also gets to take one of her toys with her each day to share for show and tell. She thinks this might be a great reason for mama and daddy to buy her some *new* toys, but we have convinced her that by the time her birthday (Nov.) and Christmas have passed, she will have plenty of new toys to share.

The Pacific NW has had an unprecendented warm and dry fall thus far. Just beautiful and sunny, with temps on many days reaching into the 70s. Our new house has a community playground just a block and half away, and Lia has loved being able to ride her trike over there with mama or daddy to play on the slides.

Today Steve and I celebrate six years since the day we met! What a wild ride it's been. We're looking forward to a family getaway weekend on the Oregon Coast in a couple of weeks. Then We have Lia's massive dental surgery to look forward (?) to on the 25th. However, the doctors say she should be in fine form for Halloween, and she is excited to be Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) this year!