Brendan and Dylan's Blog

Back to School

2008-08-26T06:49:00.001-07:00

Last week the boys started back to school again. They were both very excited. Brendan is now a third grader and has moved from Laurel Hill Primary to Charles Pinckney Elementary, he is very excited about his new school, teacher and classmates. After much contemplating over the summer, we decided to hold Dylan back to repeat Kindergarten again this year. Even though he passed and was given the go ahead for 1st grade this year, we thought he would benefit from Kindergarten one more year. He had a GREAT summer of ABA therapy and learned SO much. He will still be receiving all of this therapies in the afternoons after school each day.

Meanwhile, they are both very excited about Mommy going to Vietnam next week to bring home their baby sister. They are both going to be GREAT big brothers. Dylan keeps refering to Madison as "his baby". I'm sure they will have a really fun time with Daddy while I am away.

4th of July Weekend

2008-07-10T17:44:00.000-07:00

We spent the 4th of July weekend with Uncle Pat, Aunt Jessica, cousins Justin & Charlie & Grandma down in Tampa Florida. It was a fun weekend full of barbeques, swimming, lots of playing, fireworks and celebrating a "special" birthday for Grandma.

On the way home the boys had a special treat of seeing Jeff Gordon's car hauler along I-95. It was on it's way home from the NASCAR races that took place in Daytona over the weekend.

The other exciting thing that happened over the weekend was Dylan losing 2 more teeth. One on the way there while we were stopped at a rest area and the other the day after we got home. Both he pulled out himself. The toothfairy could hardly keep up!

School's Out!

2008-06-06T13:13:00.000-07:00

Wow! It seems like I just posted about the boy's first day of school and here I am already posting about their last day of school. Yesterday was the end of a great & successful school year for both boys. On Wednesday Brendan and Andy went to the Riverdogs baseball game downtown with Brendan's 2nd grade class as their end of the year field trip. They had a lot of fun, but it was VERY hot! Dylan had his end of the year field trip the week before to the South Carolina Aquarium with his Kindergarten class and had a fun time as well. We don't have a whole lot planned for the summer. Dylan will be having about 30 hours per week of home ABA therapy during the summer which will do him a lot of good to keep him brushed up on all of the skills he learned this past school year and help get him ready for 1st grade in the fall. His therapists are great about mixing work and fun and have special days when they take him to fun places like the beach, pool, waterpark, park & the aquarium just to name a few. So it won't be all work for Dylan this summer. Brendan is looking forward to riding his bike, going to the beach and pool & hanging out with Mommy a lot. Oh, I almost forgot, they are both looking forward to watching the NASCAR races this summer rooting for their favorite driver.......GO JR!

Look at these handsome boys!

2008-05-10T07:27:00.000-07:00

Here are the boys spring pictures they had taken at school. They turned out so good! We just got them back yesterday and wanted to post them for everyone to see. We are really glad Dylans turned out good this time because we had to return his fall pictures because he was making a funny face. Everyone will also be getting pictures through the mail in the next week.

NASCAR Season 2008!

2008-02-15T16:42:00.000-08:00

Brendan is sooooooooo excited about the start of NASCAR season on Sunday with the Daytona 500. His favorite driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr. has a new number and 2 new sponsors this year. It was so hard to contain him last weekend when Jr. won the Budweiser Shoot Out race!

Brendan Turns 8!

2008-01-27T11:59:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday Brendan! Wow it's hard to believe Brendan is 8. He had a great birthday this year. It started with cupcakes at school with his class on Thursday followed by a fun dinner of McDonald's happy meals, some presents and more cupcakes with Mom, Dad & Dylan that night. Then on Friday night we had another small gathering with our friends the Jones', the Austins, Miss Caroline and Ryan and we had pizza and cake and more presents. Brendan chose a NASCAR theme this year. Then on Saturday Papa and Donna came over and we had MORE cake and MORE presents. Brendan got a joystick for his computer, a couple of computer games, lots of board games and yes, another webkinz to add to his family, this time he got the golden retriever and what did he name her? Savannah!

New Additions to the Webkinz Family

2008-01-10T06:38:00.000-08:00

Brendan received several new additions to his Webkinz family over the Holidays. His new additions include, Mr. Moo the cow, Hippie the Hippo, Germie the German Sheppard, Air Bouncer the reindeer, and Tiger the alley cat. One other one he received before the holidays was Spot the Dalmation. I think he has a total of 8 Webkinz now. Wow! Of course we have included all of their pictures for everyone to see.

Ho, Ho, Ho, Merry Christmas!

2008-01-10T06:27:00.000-08:00

A fun photo shoot at the beach!

Happy Halloween!

2007-11-01T07:56:00.000-07:00

The boys both wanted to dress up like Dale Earnhardt Jr., (their favorite NASCAR driver) for Halloween. They had lots of fun at their school parties during the day and trick-or-treating at night. They got lots of candy!

We Started Swimming Lessons!

2007-11-01T07:52:00.000-07:00

The boys both started swimming lessons last Saturday at our local Recreation Center. They go every Saturday until the beginning of December. They both had a lot of fun and did really well!

Dylan In His First School Play

2007-11-01T07:28:00.000-07:00

A couple weeks ago Dylan's Kindergarten class had their first play. It was a nursery rhyme play and Dylan had the all important part of being the spider who scared Little Miss Muffet away! We have it all on video too, but above is a picture of him as the spider. He did a great job, we were so proud!

Webkinz Mania!!

2007-10-25T07:34:00.000-07:00

Brendan has really been into Webkinz lately. What is Webkinz you ask? For those of you who don't know, Webkinz are real plush pets, a.k.a. stuffed animals that come with a special code. When you go to the webkinz website and type in your code, you officially adopt your pet and they come to life in a virtual world. The kids play games to win Webkinz Cash to take care of their pets. They build houses, decorate rooms, feed them etc. We started out by buying Brendan and Dylan each a Webkinz pet and now they each have 2. Except Mommy takes care of Dylan's pets for him until he is a bit more interested. The scary thing is, it is pretty addicting, (even for adults). Off to the right I have photos of the boy's pets. You will notice one of them is a pink poodle named Cotton Candy. Brendan actually bought that for Mommy for her birthday so Loopy could have a friend in his house. She is now in Maddie's crib!

2007-10-06T08:45:00.000-07:00

Dylan with his class

One of Dylan's presents
Wow, a race track!

Bubba & Dylan

Dylan's Nemo Cake

Happy Birthday Dylan!

2007-10-06T08:38:00.001-07:00

October 4, 2007

Dylan turned 6 today! Wow how time flies. Dylan had a great Birthday today. It started off with a party at school with his Kindergarten class. Mommy brough a big pull apart Finding Nemo cupcake/cake and his whole class had a lot of fun. Then later that day we had another party with pizza and more cupcakes and celebrated with his therapy team and his friends Haleigh and Ryan. He got lots of fun presents and was exhausted by the end of the day. I have posted more pictures from his birthday parties for everyone to see.

2007-09-30T15:48:00.000-07:00

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Welcome To Our Blog!

2007-09-17T11:38:00.000-07:00

I decided to start a blog for Brendan and Dylan to keep everyone updated on how they are doing. If you haven't seen pictures of them in a while, they sure have grown! Below are pictures from their first day of school this year. They are both doing great in school. Brendan loves second grade and is making lots of friends and getting very good grades! Dylan was able to mainstream into a regular kindergarten classroom this year. He started the first week off with a shadow and hasn't needed one since. He is doing extremely well and several of the teachers and therapists have told us that if they didn't already know it, they would never pick him out as a child with autism, based on how he acts in class. We are just thrilled at how well he is doing so far. On top of school he still manages to get in 2-3 hours of ABA therapy at home each day after school. He is doing very well with that too!

Off to the right I have included some "fun" things. They include some of the boy's interests and Brendan also helped pick out some things that he wanted on their (like the cat).

So please check back often and I will try to keep both our blogs well updated!

My First Day of Kindergarten

2007-09-15T09:58:00.000-07:00

My First Day of Second Grade

2007-09-15T09:46:00.000-07:00