So first let's start off by sending a big huge Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
We took the monkey's apple picking yesterday and it was great! (Well, minus the bees! Monkey dad ended up getting stung. Booo!).
The monkeys had fun though, and we ended up with 15lbs of apples. Can you say Apple Crisp and Apple Pie? YUM YUM!
And, in other news, we're on the hunt again. Sigh. I hate house hunting, but this place just isn't working for us.
Our property manager is just a tad on the crazy side, and there is no doubt mold here that they don't want to repair.
It sucks, because really, this place would be a great house if they would just fix it up and the owner would get a non crazy property manager.
In other, other news, Monkey 1 had an epic meltdown last night. He bit Monkey 3 because he wasn't doing what he wanted him to do. Sigh. He broke skin on one bite, and almost did on another. Poor dude was SORE.
Hi, Im mama monkey. We have four monkey boys, three of whom have various special needs. These are my ramblings.. :)
Monday, October 10, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Mobile Education Store
I recently blogged about Kyle Tomson from the Mobile Education Store (here)
He's the Founder and President and a special needs parent himself.
Personally, we have his following apps :
Language Builder
Conversation Builder
Speech Journal
Sentence Builder
He also has created other wonderful applications, which you can find linked above.
Kyle has been a huge supporter of A4CWSN (along with a host of other fantastic developers) and Personally, I cannot WAIT to use all of his apps on our new to us iPad that will be coming.
This weekend I was able to quickly use and check out some of his apps on A's borrowed ipad (which I hooked her up with all of the above mentioned apps as well), and I just can't hardly wait to really give them a go and use them. Not just with Monkey#1, but all of our monnkeys.
Speech Journal, especially seems like it will be a great fit for our monkeys.
I will for sure also be getting all of the other apps that Mobile Education Store has to offer.
Have you used any of Mobile Education Store's apps? If so, which ones? What's your favourite app? Why?
He's the Founder and President and a special needs parent himself.
Personally, we have his following apps :
Language Builder
Conversation Builder
Speech Journal
Sentence Builder
He also has created other wonderful applications, which you can find linked above.
Kyle has been a huge supporter of A4CWSN (along with a host of other fantastic developers) and Personally, I cannot WAIT to use all of his apps on our new to us iPad that will be coming.
This weekend I was able to quickly use and check out some of his apps on A's borrowed ipad (which I hooked her up with all of the above mentioned apps as well), and I just can't hardly wait to really give them a go and use them. Not just with Monkey#1, but all of our monnkeys.
Speech Journal, especially seems like it will be a great fit for our monkeys.
I will for sure also be getting all of the other apps that Mobile Education Store has to offer.
Have you used any of Mobile Education Store's apps? If so, which ones? What's your favourite app? Why?
Sunday, October 2, 2011
WOW!
WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW!
And no, I'm not talking about World of Warcraft.. lol
Just simply amazed. And feel SO full of LOVE!
In a previous post, I invited you all for the App Party. Tonight at said App party, my family won an iPad for our boys. <3 This weekend, we have also been fortunate enough to borrow an iPad from A. It's amazing to me what my guys can do with it! <3 I'm still at a loss for words. Thank you A4CWSN!
And no, I'm not talking about World of Warcraft.. lol
Just simply amazed. And feel SO full of LOVE!
In a previous post, I invited you all for the App Party. Tonight at said App party, my family won an iPad for our boys. <3 This weekend, we have also been fortunate enough to borrow an iPad from A. It's amazing to me what my guys can do with it! <3 I'm still at a loss for words. Thank you A4CWSN!
Monday, September 26, 2011
Fair
So, it's been an exciting and busy weekend.
On Friday I drove with the monkeys to our old city and dropped two of them off with their grandparents.
It was an interesting drive, one we've made a million times now since we moved. It was pouring rain, and foggy and just overall gross. But, the kids did well. They behaved for the most part and no one was injured ;)
After we dropped them off (Big N and little N), we went to visit some friends and it was SO wonderful to see them <3.
We drove home, and went to bed.
On Saturday, we went to the fair with my friend A, who I blogged about previously. She's so stinkin' awesome. I cannot express her awesomeness to you all.
We picked A and her crew up and of we went around 2pm. We didn't get home until after midnight! We were there alllllll afternoon.
We saw all sorts of animals (including, pigs, llamas, chickens, turkeys, chicks, cows, sheep etc!). I won a $50 gas card!! (whooooo!) We saw Monkey#1's most favouritest part: The smash up derby ;) We watched the entire thing, the first year ever that that has happened. Normally, we would have had a meltdown of some sort because of the crowd and the noise combination.
This year though, we parked ourselves in a special section that was made just for folks with disabilities. I think it was mostly intended for people with physical disabilities, but I asked and we were welcomed to the area with open arms.
After the demo, we went and did a few quick rides, grabbed some elephant ears and funnel cake and before we knew it, they were shutting down the park! We dropped A and her crew off, and came home. Monkey dude didn't wake up until almost 1pm this afternoon, lol.
Today, was a lazy day. lol
On Friday I drove with the monkeys to our old city and dropped two of them off with their grandparents.
It was an interesting drive, one we've made a million times now since we moved. It was pouring rain, and foggy and just overall gross. But, the kids did well. They behaved for the most part and no one was injured ;)
After we dropped them off (Big N and little N), we went to visit some friends and it was SO wonderful to see them <3.
We drove home, and went to bed.
On Saturday, we went to the fair with my friend A, who I blogged about previously. She's so stinkin' awesome. I cannot express her awesomeness to you all.
We picked A and her crew up and of we went around 2pm. We didn't get home until after midnight! We were there alllllll afternoon.
We saw all sorts of animals (including, pigs, llamas, chickens, turkeys, chicks, cows, sheep etc!). I won a $50 gas card!! (whooooo!) We saw Monkey#1's most favouritest part: The smash up derby ;) We watched the entire thing, the first year ever that that has happened. Normally, we would have had a meltdown of some sort because of the crowd and the noise combination.
This year though, we parked ourselves in a special section that was made just for folks with disabilities. I think it was mostly intended for people with physical disabilities, but I asked and we were welcomed to the area with open arms.
After the demo, we went and did a few quick rides, grabbed some elephant ears and funnel cake and before we knew it, they were shutting down the park! We dropped A and her crew off, and came home. Monkey dude didn't wake up until almost 1pm this afternoon, lol.
Today, was a lazy day. lol
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Oh how I'm missing sleep already, lol.
So my second post is about how the monkeys went to visit my friend A, and this mama monkey got to sleep. *yawn*. How I wish I was sleeping right now.
The littlest monkey just doesn't sleep well :( He's constantly up throughout the night and unless I'm holding him all night, neither of us get any sleep at all :(
I know eventually I will long for the days of the snuggles and the closeness. But right now, this mama is tired.
Yawn.
Going to try for some more sleep!
The littlest monkey just doesn't sleep well :( He's constantly up throughout the night and unless I'm holding him all night, neither of us get any sleep at all :(
I know eventually I will long for the days of the snuggles and the closeness. But right now, this mama is tired.
Yawn.
Going to try for some more sleep!
Monday, September 19, 2011
Meltdown central.
I can always tell when Big M has had a good day at school. Wanna know how? He has a huge meltdown as soon as I pick him up. :s
He works SO hard to keep it together when he's at school. I know he does. The only problem we've heard about with him as school is attention, focus, completing his work, etc. No meltdowns, no freak outs, no over the top behaviours. None of that. When I pick him up in the afternoon, he's just so exhausted after holding it together all day, he just goes into serious meltdown mode.
We can't possibly be the only family who deals with this.
What are some of the ways you cope with the afterschool meltdowns?
He works SO hard to keep it together when he's at school. I know he does. The only problem we've heard about with him as school is attention, focus, completing his work, etc. No meltdowns, no freak outs, no over the top behaviours. None of that. When I pick him up in the afternoon, he's just so exhausted after holding it together all day, he just goes into serious meltdown mode.
We can't possibly be the only family who deals with this.
What are some of the ways you cope with the afterschool meltdowns?
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Twitter and other randomness.
So, I'm new to twitter.
Its odd. I don't really get it, lol, but I'm now there anyways. (Fourmonkeys4me).
And other randomness.
Uh, I don't really have any. lol
The hubs and the big kids should be home soon though. I havent seen Big N in a week!!! I've missed him so much, but uh, I do kinda dread them all being home again. The noise volume is going to increase, a lot. :O
But, I'm still totally stoked to have all of my babies under one roof again <3
The littlest monkey says he needs some attention now, so I better go!
Its odd. I don't really get it, lol, but I'm now there anyways. (Fourmonkeys4me).
And other randomness.
Uh, I don't really have any. lol
The hubs and the big kids should be home soon though. I havent seen Big N in a week!!! I've missed him so much, but uh, I do kinda dread them all being home again. The noise volume is going to increase, a lot. :O
But, I'm still totally stoked to have all of my babies under one roof again <3
The littlest monkey says he needs some attention now, so I better go!
The world of technology.
Do your special needs kids use any type of tablet? Or maybe an ipod/iphone? We have just recently discovered the world of A4CWSN (Apps for Children with Special Needs). After finding this group on facebook (A4CWSN), we robbed peter and bought an ipod for the kids. It's so incredible how far technology has come.
My six year old has Autism. He has difficulty processing things, and paying attention. Yet, he can sit on that darn ipod for hours at a time.
I'm interested in getting him an ipad (and hey, perhaps we may be fortunate enough to get one from a4cwsn, but maybe we won't!) So I'd love to start fundraising for him. Being in a new city, it's difficult. I don't really know a lot of people here. I mean, I *know* the neighbours, but we aren't friends, and I *know* a couple of moms at the school, but we don't talk outside of school. I have my friend A, that I posted about earlier, and one other person I would call a friend here, but that's about it, which makes things limiting.
So I'm putting this out to the world. If you needed to fund raise, and you didn't know anyone? What would you do? How would you go about doing it?
My six year old has Autism. He has difficulty processing things, and paying attention. Yet, he can sit on that darn ipod for hours at a time.
I'm interested in getting him an ipad (and hey, perhaps we may be fortunate enough to get one from a4cwsn, but maybe we won't!) So I'd love to start fundraising for him. Being in a new city, it's difficult. I don't really know a lot of people here. I mean, I *know* the neighbours, but we aren't friends, and I *know* a couple of moms at the school, but we don't talk outside of school. I have my friend A, that I posted about earlier, and one other person I would call a friend here, but that's about it, which makes things limiting.
So I'm putting this out to the world. If you needed to fund raise, and you didn't know anyone? What would you do? How would you go about doing it?
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Sweet beautiful sleep
So last night, the hubs and I had our first night out in quite some time. We recently moved cities, and we've had a lot going on, between hospital stays, meltdowns, and all the other wonderful things life tosses at us, it just hasn't happened. Hubs parents take the two middle kids quite often, but baby monkey hasn't slept over anywhere except home or the hospital, lol.
Anyways! I made a friend! (yay!) lol, we'll call her A. A is amazing. Anyways, she called me yesterday morning, and offered to take the kiddies for a sleep over! Silly woman, sent her own kids off for the weekend and was offering to take mine! I jumped. LOL Actually, no. I thought about it for a couple of hours and decided, we're in the same city, 20 minutes from her house, if anything happened we could go pick up whoever needed to be picked up.
So, I used scene points and got tickets to go see a movie (Crazy, Stupid, Love) and we dropped off 3 of the monkeys (the other one is with the hubs parents!) and off we went. The movie was okay, I was actually expecting a little better considering the cast, but it was still decent. A was so sweet and sent me a couple of txts to let me know how the monkeys were doing, and even included a picture of baby monkey sleeping for me <3
Anyways, we came home, and I slept. All. Night. Long. Without a baby monkey on top of me, or waking me, without any of the bigger monkeys waking up, without interruption. Sweet bliss.
Oh sleep, how I have missed you <3.
I called A this morning around 10am, and the troops were still doing well and bless this woman, do you know what she said to me? " Go back to sleep!" OMG! ANGEL! So, I did. For another hour.
Then because I'm still nursing, I thought my chest might explode. So I went to pick up the monkeys. lol
It's funny, I'm always so hesitant to send my monkeys off somewhere. But, it always works out, and we're all better for it.
Now we're home, two of the monkey's are napping, and I'm thinking I should go nap with them while the chance is there :)
Thank you A. You're awesome and amazing.
Anyways! I made a friend! (yay!) lol, we'll call her A. A is amazing. Anyways, she called me yesterday morning, and offered to take the kiddies for a sleep over! Silly woman, sent her own kids off for the weekend and was offering to take mine! I jumped. LOL Actually, no. I thought about it for a couple of hours and decided, we're in the same city, 20 minutes from her house, if anything happened we could go pick up whoever needed to be picked up.
So, I used scene points and got tickets to go see a movie (Crazy, Stupid, Love) and we dropped off 3 of the monkeys (the other one is with the hubs parents!) and off we went. The movie was okay, I was actually expecting a little better considering the cast, but it was still decent. A was so sweet and sent me a couple of txts to let me know how the monkeys were doing, and even included a picture of baby monkey sleeping for me <3
Anyways, we came home, and I slept. All. Night. Long. Without a baby monkey on top of me, or waking me, without any of the bigger monkeys waking up, without interruption. Sweet bliss.
Oh sleep, how I have missed you <3.
I called A this morning around 10am, and the troops were still doing well and bless this woman, do you know what she said to me? " Go back to sleep!" OMG! ANGEL! So, I did. For another hour.
Then because I'm still nursing, I thought my chest might explode. So I went to pick up the monkeys. lol
It's funny, I'm always so hesitant to send my monkeys off somewhere. But, it always works out, and we're all better for it.
Now we're home, two of the monkey's are napping, and I'm thinking I should go nap with them while the chance is there :)
Thank you A. You're awesome and amazing.
Four Monkeys 4 me
Hi! I'm monkey mama ;)
I have four beautiful monkey boys. Big M is 6 1/2. He has autism. Big N is 4 1/2, he's a neurotypical child. Little N just turned 3, and he has tons of allergies (to make it simple lol), and Little M is 1, as far as we know right now his diagnosis is severe GERD (reflux) that causes life threatening episodes.
We live in Ontario, Canada. And we have a roller coaster life :) Welcome!
I have four beautiful monkey boys. Big M is 6 1/2. He has autism. Big N is 4 1/2, he's a neurotypical child. Little N just turned 3, and he has tons of allergies (to make it simple lol), and Little M is 1, as far as we know right now his diagnosis is severe GERD (reflux) that causes life threatening episodes.
We live in Ontario, Canada. And we have a roller coaster life :) Welcome!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)