Graduation and New Beginnings

FAITH GRADUATES TODDLER GROUP!!

Since Faith is turning three in September she will transition out of her birth to three programs and start getting speech and other services through the school district.  So, she had a little graduation ceremony the week before last, at her Deaf/Hard of Hearing Toddler Group that she has been going to once a week for the last year and a half.  It's so sad to say goodbye to people who have been so involved in her life and helping her learning speech and interacting with other kids with hearing loss like her.  Hopefully we will be able to stay in touch with both her teachers Nancy, Speech Pathologist and Lynn, Deaf Educator, and have Faith come visit them again to see how much progress she makes during her first year of pre-school.

Nancy, Faith and Lynn

Faith's Graduation Certificate, with her name written in sign language!

Recent Zoo Trip with her Toddler Group

with her best friend, Mia

ANTHONY STARTS KINDERGARTEN!!

With one ending there is always a new beginning and the first big one is Anthony starting Kindergarten the same day Faith graduated.  Here are some cute pictures of him at his new school, Faith hanging out with him before school, with his new teacher, Ms. Nugent, and getting in line with his new classmates ready to go into the school. 

Anthony seemed a bit reserved about going to his new school, not sure he wanted to be going 5 days a week, missing some of his favorite TV shows, not having as much time with Daddy and not knowing any of his classmates yet.  It's been a week now and he seems much happier about going.  On Friday he earned a blue clip for good behavior so we treated him to a little trip to Toys R Us where he got to buy a hockey stick.  He was so excited about it and we are looking forward to him trying hard to earn some more blue clips.  

Another new beginning has been my job.  I started on July 13th, and have had to jump right in the deep end to start managing a large project that was starting two weeks late!  It's been a lot of work getting everything set up, the budget, the project plan, identifying the team, learning the goals of the project, training the team on Scrum and getting things moving.  We are now in full swing and development is underway.  We have to be finished by February 28th and then I will either have an opportunity to extend my contract, become an employee (just a possibility mentioned during my contract negotiation but no guarantees) or I'll be looking for another job somewhere else!  So far I really like what the company does and it is very enjoyable helping them make the transition to Scrum.

Hope life is treating you all well.  I'll try to be better about posting more frequently!

Robin