January 30, 2011

They announced the RAGBRAI overnight towns yesterday, which is always a big day for the start of Race 4 Grace planning. It'll start in Glenwood this year, get to Atlantic Sunday night, Carroll Monday night, Boone Tuesday night, Altoona Wednesday night, Grinnell Thursday night, Coralville Friday night, and Davenport Saturday night. Not sure what we'll do this year. Basically all of Michelle's family lives in the Carroll area, so I'm sure we'll try to do something connected there. Also there is probably a chance that Tuesday's route will go near or through Ogden, which was where I taught and coached for two years right out of college. We don't have any real connections to Glenwood or Atlantic, but I assume there is still a good chance we'll start on Sunday anyway. We'll see. More information to come.

January 22, 2011

Winter is rolling along in our house. Grace got a little bit of the flu bug yesterday at school and had to come home early. She's doing a lot better today, and overall her health has been really good this winter.

Grace has been pretty busy with a number of things. She's in Girl Scouts now, and they have a Monday night meeting once a month. She has the Girl Scout pledge memorized, and she has managed to see a few cookies.

She's also had a couple music programs at school in the past month or so. They had a huge Christmas (or is it winter?) program at East High School, and then the other night they sang at a soup supper thing.

Grace is eligible to go to MDA camp this summer for the first time, and we're kicking it around. It's the premier camp in the country for kids with disabilities, and everything we've heard about it is really positive. On the other hand, we're not sure we're ready for her to be away from us for a whole week. Grace, however, says she'd be fine with it. Not surprising.

January 8, 2011

Been awhile. We had a good Christmas, and now we're settling in for winter. Santa was good to the girls, and he even left a note for Grace thanking her for the milk and cookies. Grace was excited to go back to kindergarten this week, and we were happy about that. The neat development over the last couple months has been Grace's reading and writing. She's reading full books, and she can write pretty well. She'll always ask when she doesn't know how to read or write a word, and she seems to remember it the next time it comes around. At school the other day they had to say their goal for the new year, and Grace told us that she said she wanted to learn how to write more big words!