A week later!

Good evening everyone!

Sorry I have been neglecting the blog. We are still getting into a rhythm here in Colchester and the days seem to FLY by! But all in all, things are good.

First things first, we fought our first semi battle with DCF and WON! We were thrilled and we are no longer transporting Isaiah to his visits with his mom. It was just to abnormal....unnatural, if you will. We do feel like it was good for her to get to meet us and know who he was with, but the reality and is that we are not going to all hang out and be chummy so we wanted some distance. We told DCF that and they made it so. Nice.

They also upped the amount of time Isaiah sees his mom. He went from seeing her once a week for 1 hour to 1.5 hours. Not significant and not what she wanted which was another whole visit in the week. We were surprised and somewhat upset but have come to terms with it. I think we will be doing a lot of that, coming to terms with things that DCF does.

Isaiah has had a nice week. He has done well at day care and is getting ready to go on his first field trip to the Firehouse in a couple of weeks. He is already talking about it.

He continues to do very well with potty training. He loves the positive reinforcement we give him and so he tries to go more often. It's working! AND since his diet is regulated he is experiencing more normal, boy-like poop! Was that an over share???

We are VERY happy to say that JP is doing so much better. It took many trips to the vet and swipes of the credit card to get him healing, but he is doing well. Below is a picture of him in his new Doggles, which may be helping more than anything. They reduce his light sensitivity and allow him to be out in the sun with no problems. I think the big thing that went wrong with him was related to his eye sight. He would flinch in the sun and then fall over. Poor puppa! But now he is a cool dog AND can see ok. Seriously, we would do anything for this dog!

Gabe and I are settling in after a fun "Welcome Fall" party at my cousin's house. There was yummy food, friends and a fire pit blazing. Gabe and I are both starting to feel under the weather and are looking forward to a rainy day tomorrow to do nothing but stay in!

Have a nice weekend!!