Easter fun, Spring Break

Okay my blogging every 10 days has turned into every 3 weeks lately! Must be better! What have we been up to . . . Brian's parents came to visit on Easter weekend! It was kind of a weird weekend because we were on the brink of buying a new construction house (as in, we had written up an offer and were considering the tiny tweaks they put in the counter offer). Brian just wasn't sure about it, then I wasn't sure about it . . . it was quite overwhelming! In the end, we did not buy the house and that is totally okay with us at this point. We will keep looking and if just the right house comes along in our price range then we will try for it (along with 50 other people I'm sure). Being a buyer in this market literally makes you sick to your stomach:-S.

Anyway! It was really nice to have them here! We did an egg hunt of course, made a delicious Easter dinner, hung around the house a lot. Next time they come we will hopefully be in a better frame of mind (and the weather will hopefully be better as well) and we can do more stuff:). I did my 10K 520 bridge run last Saturday! It was a pretty cool experience, only 13,000 other people doing it:-/. It was a bit crowded but still a fun experience. Lynsey had her Spring Break this past week. She spent a lot of time at the neighbor girl's house. We did take a trip up to Whidbey Island on Thursday afternoon! I met up with my friend Courtney who I did Y-1 with 15 years ago! She is from Whidbey and has been gone to Australia most of the time that we've been living here, but now she is finally back and we were able to connect:). So cool to chat with her again! Took me back to another lifetime! Adam had some trouble with some of the transitions, but once we got to Double Bluff beach, he recovered fairly quickly and we ended up having a great afternoon there.

Lynsey has become a BOOKWORM! So neat to see! I went to some second hand stores this week and bought her a pile of books, a lot of classics from when I was growing up (I am shamelessly reliving my childhood, so what!). She has been reading non-stop! She read an adapted version of Anne of Green Gables, prompting me of course to buy the movies on Amazon! We will be watching the first one later today:-D. She basically has been going through one chapter book a day. I was suspicious at the beginning whether or not she was properly reading all the pages, but she could answer all kinds of questions about the plot so I think she is. She has become quite a great little reader! It has helped make this Spring Break a lot less painful. That and all the time she has spent playing at her friends house as well haha!

Adam had his first of 10 appointments at the Childrens Autism Center a few weeks ago. We are meeting with a behavior expert that will hopefully help us deal with his anxiety, and specifically right now we need help figuring out how to deal with him interrupting us every time we talk, needing reassurance that we aren't going somewhere. He picks out random phrases that he hears us say and is convinced that we are now taking him somewhere very undesirable. It can be very frustrating. On Thursday, when Courtney and I were trying to catch up on 15 years of not seeing each other, he was interrupting me every 5 seconds. It got very old, very quickly. He isn't usually quite that bad, but when he is already agitated it does get to be quite incessant. The woman we talked to suggested we use more schedules, with the theory being that if he definitely knows what is going to happen, he will not live in fear about us taking him somewhere, but I am not 100% convinced that this will work for Adam. We did get a schedule app on the iPad which he is mildly interested in, but the other kids have taken to it more than he has. One of my issues with these set-in-stone visual schedules is that sometimes I don't know exactly what we are doing all day, and I really hesitate to enslave him to a schedule which will only make him less flexible than he already is. Hopefully after spending some more time with us, and me being able to give her some more examples of what is happening, she will be able to give us some more insights as to how we can try and minimize this behavior.

Tomorrow is our 12 year anniversary! We have absolutely no plans to do anything, maybe we'll go out to eat as a family. We had a nice date night while Brian's parents were here so I guess that was our anniversary date:).