We actually have an okay crop this year. It's refreshing after the last two years. I'm pretty sure I wrote about it last summer, but we were put in a pretty unfortunate situation. 2011 was a terribly dry year, and it hurt! We were a little apprehensive starting 2012, and Heath had an opportunity to buy some land at Olton. His plan was to let the tenant at the time farm it for the year, and then he would take it over. Then, the guy ended up jumping ship in June, leaving Heath to scramble to get something planted at the last minute. If that wasn't enough, it was hot and dry AGAIN last year. Heath has had to fight round-up resistant weeds really hard this year, but we're thankful he has a crop worth fighting for.
Luke started school today, and I feel like I should be more upset about it than I am! I was just excited for him, and I think we were both ready. I have no regrets in the last 4 years. I spent every minute with him that I could and didn't miss a thing! I am proud of him for being so excited about it, too. We are leaps and bounds from the toddler who'd be traumatized when he would go to the nursery at church. I know it won't be any problem for Landry because she'll just follow in Luke's footsteps. She already wants to go to school, too. But, with Luke being our first, I feel like he was brave to go and be excited about it. It'll be nice to start to have a routine, too. We've had a routine at home, but there were lots of times we didn't leave the house for days - especially before we started all of this therapy. Plus, I like the baby steps of preschool, too. He only goes half a day three days a week, so we get to ease into the school thing. I'm feeling a good year ahead of us!
As for Landry, we've done therapy all summer, and we're now into chiropractic care, too. I felt like we sort of plateaued in clinical therapy about the time we got a recommendation for a chiropractor in Lubbock who works with kids and focuses on wellness, too. We started seeing her about 6 or 8 weeks ago, and I have seen even more progress from Landry. I was relieved to start seeing Dr. Hillman because she was just as concerned with Landry's nutritional status as I was. She's now on some good supplements, and she's trying at least one new food a week. Used to, she would try a new food every month or so, and even then, she would trade off a "no" food for a "yes" food. Since we started the chiropractic care, she has tried (without spitting out) raw broccoli, hamburger meat, canadian bacon, scrambled eggs, apples, and refried beans. It thrills me to see her enjoying meal times. She is still small, but she has gone up to the 8th percentile in her weight and height. She was around the 45th percentile at 9 months, and then dropped off to as low as the 2nd percentile after she was weaned from me. So, the 8th percentile is progress.. It's just very slow progress. I hope to be finishing up the clinical therapy soon. We'll still probably do the hippotherapy, and we'll keep seeing the chiropractor. I still feel crazy writing about how it's helped her.... In my last post, I wrote about how big of a skeptic I am. I was the same way with the chiropractic care, but as a mama, I was willing to try anything to help my baby!
Between therapy and farming, we still made time for a few weekends off this summer, at least! We spent lots of time with friends and family, squeezed in a few weekends at the lake, and we went to Dallas for a long weekend to take the kids to a water park. Oh! And even got a mama's night out right before school started. :)
