A Quick Update...

Just wanted to let everyone know that Chris got the final approval on his retirement. So, there's no turning back now. AND since the kids and I are staying here in San Diego instead of moving to a new school, Chris has decided to go ahead and do a retirement ceremony. As before, you're all invited if you want to make the trip here. The official date is December 3rd. That's set in stone. If you plan on coming, it would be great if you could let us know. We need to set up a few things and figure out how many tents to plant in the back yard. Ha ha. No really, I'm not joking.

As far as the school situation...we are staying put for one more school year. Not because we love the school, but because we love the special education team working with Cameron. We still do not have a diagnosis and are working with the team at the school. The team at the school has come together several times and shared their observations and evaluations with each other and then us. In March our pediatrician referred us to a neurologist who specializes in difficult to diagnose cases, like Cameron. I called and discovered there was a loooong wait. Cameron's appointment was set for June 18th. When we told the special ed team at school who the doctor was, their eyes lit up and then they told us that this particular doctor is world renown. Yay! They worked over the next couple of months and put together an extensive information packet for us to give to the neurologist. On June 18th, we showed up for our appointment and were told that our insurance declined to pay. Umm, thanks for the notice. Our insurance company wants us to go to the Naval Hospital. Okiee dokiee. I'm not thrilled with that because I have never, never, ever had a great experience with the military hospitals. EVER. Oh well, gotta do what we gotta do. Chris went in Friday and was told that they are booking appointments for August. CRAP! School starts September 7th and we were hoping to have a diagnosis and a plan by then. Also, the Naval Hospital doctors have their own questionnaire for us and the teachers to fill out. It's SUMMER TIME. We've already done this extensive series of questions for the civilian doctor. Probably more thorough than the one the Navy docs are wanting. But no, not good enough. *sigh* We'll get it done though.

So that's some of what's going on around here. I'll try to put some pics up as soon as I locate the little cable thingy that connects my craptastical camera to my craptastical computer. We have some pictures of Cameron in his karate gi. He's so cute. He just advanced to 2nd degree white belt and I got a little video of him breaking the tape on his belt. His face is priceless. Also, I have some pictures from the zoo and also Cameron's Kindergarten graduation. And we're going hiking tomorrow, so hopefully I can get some good pics then too.

Y'all take care...