We had a pretty good week, if a not a little bittersweet.  Summer school has come to an end.  We had a super fun week making foot print butterflies, taking turns being the "teacher" during singing, and ending with a big graduation celebration.  We got gold medals, super sweet sunglasses, ate cupcakes, played with balloons, bowled, golfed, and made awesome music on our huge piano mat.  It was the best day ever.  Safi had a bit of a rough time when it came to the cupcakes.  Last year the last day coincided with Kameron's birthday and we did a pirate treasure hunt for the cupcakes.  So, when mom said it was time for cupcakes Safi kept saying "We have to find the cupcakes."  Mom thought she lost her marbles because the cupcakes were right in front of her.  Luckily Logan and Zoey's mom, Emily, came in with the save reminding mom that we had hid the cupcakes last year.  Mom and Emily talked Safi through it and, while still bothering her ("I don't like this..this a little scary"), she came around and we had enjoyed her cupcake.  It was a great summer and we're bummed to see it end but we're getting geared up for the new school year.

Safi still doesn't know where she's going but I keep asking her if I can visit her school.  I know that I get to see Teacher Mari when I go back to big girl school so I'm pretty excited...and nervous.  Mom HAS to have the meeting with Safi's school program supervisor this week because the first day of school is August 9th and Safi has to start getting appropriately prepared.  Heather has been really sick so mom is nervous that she may not be able to help Safi get acclimated to her new class and mom doesn't really have a back up.  Mom doesn't want to go with her and cramp her style so, needless to say, mom is stressed to the max right now.

Unfortunately, with stress come illness and mom is sick.  She's trying to rest but we're not the easiest kids to rest around so its a challenge.  We still managed to have an ok weekend.  Saturday was a little rough.  Safi and I both had meltdown's at the park so we weren't allowed to go to Burger King which sent Safi over the edge.  She recovered with time and Sunday we went to the purple slide park and got to feed the ducks and geese.  We did a super awesome job so we got to go to Burger King..and it was great!  Just wished mom was feeling better and now it looks like dad be might be coming down with it.

We got our new upgraded tablets this week and the Nabi 2 ROCKS!  Its faster than the old one and has a ton of new features..Skype, anyone?!  Even more exciting is Nabi's new Inspire program focusing on Autism in particular and special needs in general.  The company is going to develop a whole app store just for kids with special needs, provide Nabi's to families of kids with special needs at a discounted price, and will focus on supporting education, treatments, and research related to autism through charitable donations.  To help them develop this program, Fuhu announced that they were looking for 20 Inspire Families.  Mom wrote them an email about us and our family and she was chosen!!!  So, we are proud to announce that we are a Nabi Inspire Family!  Mom will help them with the creation of the special needs app store and WE will be official app testers!!  Mom will also offer support to families of kids with special needs with regards to incorporating the Nabi and technology into their home's and their kid's daily routines.  So rad!  We're super proud of mom and super excited to start helping lots of kids with our feed back on the apps.  Changing the world, one step at a time, we are!!  

No time for people being sick, we have a busy week ahead!  We're supposed to go to Storyland/Playland on Wednesday and we were invited to our friend Gideon's birthday party on Saturday.  Fun time ahead so buck up mom and dad. we plan to squeeze every last bit of summer fun possible into the next week and a half!

So, let the good times roll and may we not catch whatever the heck mom has!

Peace
Nixi

Safi getting flappy because she's happy with her new tablet!


Safi and the hill...I prefer to run it rather than ride it!