Almost 6 months!!!

We can't believe it's almost been six months since Gotcha Day!! Soooo much has happened: I went back to work (it was soooo hard, and still is, but I really do love teaching and have become so much more efficient so I can leave ASAP) and my dad watched him for a week, my mom watched him the following week, and since the beginning of March Benson has been on Paternity leave; we celebrated Brayden's second birthday; got him Dedicated at our church; he is pulling himself up on everything and cruising around; signs two words together (usually "eat more" or "more please"); somehow barely survived this horrible winter and will work on his outside stamina because the few walks we were able to take earlier this week wiped him out....and he just sat in the stroller! ;) and we all just love him more and more. 

Next Friday he is scheduled for his palate surgery. Recovery is about three weeks with pain meds for the first four or five days and hopefully only a one night hospital stay. He can only eat puréed food, and with how much this boy LOVES to eat that is the part I'm most worried about because he is going to be MAD (rightly so!!). 

My coworker and I submitted a proposal to job share next school year and it was approved so we will each work two and a half days!! It's the best of both worlds and we are thrilled!!!! :)

Attaching has gone well and spending the days with daddy has Bray reaching for him some of the time now when I'm around. Hopefully the surgery won't disrupt too much. We're looking at a few home day cares for May which will be a big adjustment since he won't be at home anymore and he'll be around kids again, but with a smaller setting we are hoping he'll still get a lot of adult attention that he loves.

Brayden will still have his four therapists come to the house over the summer, but we're hoping to spend a lot of time at the pool and find a music class.....on top of play dates!!! :)

Thanks for continuing to check in on us. Sorry I haven't been consistent with updating, but I'm still trying to figure out how to balance as much as I can. At the end of the day though, as long as I have snuggled with Brayden everything else is a bonus!