I took Susanna in to get weighed this afternoon.  She was 12lb2oz and 5 months and now at 6 months is 13lb1.5oz, so for the second month in a row she gained almost a pound.  This means she was able to stay on that 5% curve, rather than falling farther through the growth chart.  We are so glad!  She is up to 17 cafe au lait spots, so continuing to increase, but at a slower rate.  She's also had problems with passing her bowels for the last 4 months, but just recently has started going twice a week as opposed to once every 5-8 days.  Overall, we are very encouraged by her progress!  Tomorrow I will find out the date for her next appointment with the geneticist.  Thank you for all of you who are praying for her!

We're finishing up our homeschool year and will have our year end assessment this coming Tuesday.  I've been busy working with the children on getting their notebooks up to date so we can show them to him.  Cooking has been a big part of Naomi Ruth's school year and she and I have been having so much fun putting together a recipe scrapbook for her.  Thomas' delight directed binder is weather.

Once we've done the assessment, I'm going to sort through all of our homeschooling material, determine what we should keep and pack that, and then sell or give away the rest.  I don't know about you all, but I have amassed an enormous amount of homeschool stuff over the years.  I can't imagine that we'd ever actually manage to use it all.  This has been a really fun homeschool year and I'm looking forward to coming up with ideas for next year.

Our house closes on June 30th, so I'm hoping that by August we'll be all settled and ready to start up our next homeschool year.  We still aren't sure where it is we're moving to, but are praying that the Lord shows us really soon! 

Love, Dawn