So busy that I skipped a couple of weeks.

Well according to my friends I have missed a few weeks of updates. LOL. So let me go back and catch up on everything. I did have a birthday this month and I had a great day with phone calls and emails from midnight to midnight. I went out to lunch with a friend and then had dinner with the kids. As an early b-day celebration I went to Edgefest with some friends, see here...
Then a week after my b-day I got to go to the Cardinals vs. Cowboys game as you can see in my last post.
In other news, I am happy that the kids father has been calling them weekly. After much discussion with some of my friends who have been through this, I was advised to stop protecting my kids from him (or lack of him.) As I have been really worried that he would just call sporadically (which still maybe the case) and really just mess with their heads. I have decided that to some extent his choices are not my problem. To that extent I can only be there for my kids when something does go wrong and not try to predict that it will go wrong. So here's to new beginings and new choices for everyone.
On the school front, Nate got in another fight and punched a kid in the mouth and broke his braces. I gotta tell you on one hand "my kid kicked your kids ass!" and I am slightly proud. On the other hand I don't really know how to deal with it because well I am not supposed to encourage that kind of behavior and because the school is not doing anything to help the situations. For example I have been trying to get Nate an IEP for over a year now. I finally got them to say they would start testing but only after I called the district office and raised hell. However so far that is all they have done and have not actually done anything in that effort. So I finally have started setting my own appointments and and just telling the people involved to be there. Let me just say this AZ schools suck! I miss Kansas schools, better education and better teachers.
Just a side note, last night I was cooking diner and looked out the back to see what Noah was doing and this is what I saw...

Notice the jeep he drove to the side of the trampoline to get up there? After about five minutes of asking him to get off I finally had to climb up there and get him.