Our new schoolroom is now complete....

Well, this weekend we finished transforming some wasted space in our bedroom to a new schoolroom. We love it. It is working out great. Ali loves having her own desk (she wasted NO time in decorating it with personal items!). All we have left is to get her cork board hung and for her new chair to come it. We ordered it and it is on its way. I wonder why we didn't think of doing this before? I even made a shelf for Clark with books and a basket of small toys. He loves sitting in his little chair and looking at books...or playing on the rug.

The pictures of our cats.....well, we thought we could buy a little scratch pad for Angel since she isn't declawed. So...T.C. picked one up at Wal-Mart the other day. He gets home...follows the instructions and sprinkled catnip on it...and OH MY GOODNESS. The goofy cats wouldn't leave it alone. Angel doesn't scratch on it mind you...but they take turns lying across it. Especially Happy...who is declawed...AAARRRGGGGHHHHH!! I think our cats are retarded. Ha! Happy jumped up on the counter and wouldn't leave the box it came in alone...he just kept licking the box for the longest time. Maybe Ali dropped him as a kitten. :) So good thinking on our part...just not the outcome we were hoping for. So we must come up with another idea so Angel quits using the couch as a scratch post!

Clark had his speech evaluation today. There was also a child psychologist that joined the evaluation along with the speech pathologist. They seemed to think that he is adjusting great and that his speech will come along without help. He can be re-evaluated in about 6 months if he isn't improving like we think he should be. But, as for now...we just wait and see. She said it was really too soon to tell since he is still learning the language. They did give me some exercises to try at home to help with a couple of sounds. They both think he needs to interact with other children more often. They said children learn language best from other children. So, we will look into a Mother's Day Out program (their recommendation). He does attend Sunday School with other children and is in gymnastics...so hopefully a day or two a week of MDO will help even more.

new schoolroom