Deb, So great to hear from you. I am so glad everyone is doing well, especially Josh. Jonah sounds like he is doing well with school. His classroom seems like a great set up. I wish we had something like that here, well actually we do, Montessori, I just don't have the $800 a month to send Kailey to it.
Recently, a friend's daughter (16 months) had a successful liver transplant. They had been waiting for over a year and finally a couple weeks before Christmas, they got the call. She was born with a liver defect so they had never seen her healthy, within hours of the transplant they couldn't believe her skin color and eye color....no more yellow. She is thankfully doing well, except she fell down the stairs and now has a broken arm complete with screws and plates. Please keep the donor family in your prayers, as I'm sure this is a terrible time of year for them. Kris -----Original Message----- From: Deb and Joel Gerrits [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 12:03 PM To: march98 Subject: [march98] Hellooooo out there...... Hey all! How is everyone and their Marchers doing? It's been a long time since we've had any activity on our list and I thought I'd stir things up. We're doing well. JOnah is really enjoying school this year. What's even better is we haven't had a single note from the teacher this year. At his conference she mentioned that he's pretty chatty--something that we already are well aware of--but otherwise said he's a good student. Jonah is in a multiage program. There are three classes that have 5 first graders, 5 second graders and 5 third graders in each. Then at specific times of the day they split up into age-level activities. That's when Jonah does stuff with the other first graders only. He loves his class. And what's cool is that the older kids help the younger kids. Plus they match up the first graders with the 4th and 5th multiage kids for book buddies where they practice their reading. He had to do his first project and give a presentation just before Thanksgiving. It was optional for the first graders, but he really wanted to do it. They videotape it and send it home so parents can do an assessment of his presentation and the student does a self-assessment. It was pretty neat seeing my little guy doing his first presentation. I don't think I had to do anything like that until I was in high school. He's very excited about Christmas. Are any of your kids asking questions about the existence of Santa? We filled stockings for St. Nick's day and on the way to the bus stop (after looking at the goodies he got in his stocking), Jonah said "Mom, I think you put that stuff in there." He had been a pretty uncooperative and naughty kid the day before, so I said "Why would i do that? If it were me, I wouldn't have given you anything!" So he decided it must have been St. Nick. Then there's Josh. He's really thrived after his last surgery in August. He's still small, but starting to eat better every day. And we're so glad to have that third open heart surgery behind us. All we know we have to do now is go back in for a cath where the docs will put stents into Josh's too-small pulmonary arteries. But that seems way less scary than full-blown surgery. Unfortunately he's down for the count today after a bout with the croup. He's so sweet. His language skills are coming around and he is doing his best to learn all those Christmas songs he hears on the radio. It seems that his favorite today is Paul McCartney's "Simply having a wonderful Christmas time". Josh was in his first Christmas program last week. His class marched and danced to "Do you hear what I hear." He was dressed up like a little king, so cute. And he didn't even get afraid or scared in front of the crowd--and believe me, he's afraid of nearly everyone these days. Didn't really mean to make this a novella. Just thought I'd do a quick update. Let's hear how the rest of the Marchers (and their families) are doing. Deb --- You are currently subscribed to march98 as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% --- You are currently subscribed to march98 as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
