Vacation and Jacob's re-evaluation

Last week was vacation for us. As usual, it wasn't much of a vacation but we did accomplish a few tasks:

• Jacob's closet in his new bedroom got a new shelf, hanging bar, hooks and paint.
  
• The storm windows are down and put away and the screens are in.
  
• The new to us TV in the living room has cable.
  
• The garage sale was successful. I sold almost all of my crap and made some good money.
  
• Everything from the garage sale is either back in the basement or returned to it's owner.
  
• We have a sidewalk.
  
• We have dirt in preparation for a lawn.
  
• We went out to breakfast with Grandpa and spent the day playing with cousins.
  
• Jacob got his first sunburn - Ma wasn't thinking of sunburn in April.
  
• Jacob has a sandbox with a cover to prevent Tootsie Rolls from the neighborhood kitties.
  
• Jacob's outside toys are outside.
  
• The screen door to the upper porch has a coat of primer.
  
• The rail on the upper porch has been scrubbed back to white.
  
• The gutter on the upper porch is now void of pine cones.
  
• There isn't a single pine cone in my yard or my neighbor's - we raked 'em all up.
  
• Murray (our dog) found a nice Grandma that wants to love him and keep him - at her house.
  
• A nice man picked up my old landscape timbers and broken trellis. Thanks to freecycle.com
  
• We bought a new baby monitor - with 2 receivers. We finally got smart!
  
• We didn't do anything special to celebrate our anniversary. No flowers, no cards, no dinner, no babysitter. We weren't planning to do anything special, we didn't, and it was okay.
  
• Jeremy, Jacob, and I went to the first Antique Show of the year. We had fried pickles, a spiral potato, pop, popcorn, and cinnamon roasted almonds - I think we spent more in junk food but we had a good time.
  
• Jacob had his re-evaluation this morning. He does qualify for speech therapy services. They will start coming 2X a month to work with him. He's not putting enough words together, he's not speaking as clearly as he should, and he hasn't made enough progress since he got the tubes in his ears - are the reasons why he now qualifies. They come back, I think May 12 and they will do another assessment to find out how delayed he is and then they'll start to help him from that point forward. In the meantime, we will continue to read to him, talk to him, and coach him to name items or to repeat us (watch your mouth momma). At this point, I am thankful that he is a December baby as he can't start preschool until he's 4 or kindergarten until he's 6. Not that he's not intelligent enough but, the cut off is Dec. 1 and it gives us an extra year if he needs it.
  
  All in all, we were busy but, we enjoyed our time off. I'm looking forward to the next one.