Summer is flying by! We’ve been busy with school two days a week (Tue & Thu) and then Pirate Camp on Monday and Wednesday. Pirate Camp is a speech therapy camp called Tricks for Talking. Our pediatrician recommended that Dalton go ahead and start some speech therapy for his stuttering because it was getting more intense instead of slowly growing out of it. They recommended this camp that is for graduate students who are working on their speech therapy degrees. Dalton loved it! He gets personal attention from his therapist named Ms Hannah, who looks 15. Dalton loves the ladies! So he has no problem with camp. I also had classes to learn more about mine and Brett’s role in helping him overcome this dysfluency. He may just grow out of it, which would be awesome, but he may also struggle with it for the rest of his life, so we’re taking steps now just in case we end up with the latter.

 

We’ve been swimming SO much lately! The hot summer is starting to wear us down a bit. We enjoy swimming at the Y and at our friends John & Cheryls, because the Y cools their water at night and John and Cheryl’s pool is shaded most of the day.  Dalton has really started to swim  well and he can even jump in and swim back to the side which makes me very happy. He sometimes looks like he’s drowning with his rough swimming techniques so I’m going to get him in swim lessons in August to help him with that. He also needs to swim the length of the kid pool at the Y before they will let him go down the slide which he really wants to do.

 

Dalton and I went to Atlanta to visit my family over the 4th of July weekend. Dalton had such a good time with his big cousin Daniel and Sarah and the little ones, Will and Jack. My mom and my brother, Rick came too so it was a full house and so much fun. We went to Stone Mountain Georgia for the fireworks and laser show on Friday and it was great! Dalton got to stay up till Midnight! Traffic was not so good, but it was worth it.

 

While we were in Atlanta Brett and his dad went to West TX to Big Bend National Park. This was a much needed break for Brett who had been working non-stop for the last few months. We would have loved for him to come with us but we know he needed quiet time and it’s becoming a tradition for him and his dad to visit and mark off National Parks each year.

 

Our big summer vacation this year was spent state-side. We went to Telluride Colorado at the end of July. What an amazing place. We all loved our week there. The weather was perfect with warm days and cold nights and a few afternoon showers just in time for a nice nap in the afternoons. Dalton was such a good hiker. He loved the rugged paths and the adventure of not quite knowing where we would end up. He and Brett did a 2 mile hike down the mountain one day and Dalton walked the whole way without being carried - thankfully.