Promise I'm not dead!

I know it's been too long once again. With school I have been crazy busy from the beginning of Jan to the first of April I had to have 25 papers done in order to stay on the Student teaching list for September on top of that I have 72 hours of observations in a classroom as well as working with a licensed teacher to finish some more papers. Needless to say that had me busy then add to that the fact that baseball season has started up again and if anyone knows my son they know how much he loves the game so now I have baseball practice 3 days a week and games the other 3 days with Sunday being the only day we are not on the field. Xia is as busy as ever. We just got the test results back from her testing with Sam Goldstien just to make sure that she didn't have any of the learning disabilities that Leighton and I have needless to say she is too smart for her own good. There were no learning disabilities but her IQ was way above average Sam put it like this the "the average college student has a IQ of 106 the average masters student has a IQ of 10 and Xia's IQ falls into the 116 range meaning that she is grad school material." She is doing everything on the 3 or 4 grade level except reading flunecey at this she is just on grade level so Sam recommended focusing on this area because she is capable of being at least on 3 grade level if we can get her speed up. Sam also said to look at getting her scholorships to the private schools in the area for Jr. High and High school to keep her challneged, As for her stubornness with me I just have to work on not butting heads with her so often. That's my goal and so far we have done pretty good not nearly as many melt downs. Jake is also in school but only part time right now and he is slowly seeing how diffeicult it is to fit in school and work however he has less because it is me that does baseball, and swiimming for Xia. For those that don't know Sam Goldstien he is the doctor that diagnosed me as a child as well as Leighton he is one of the top neurology Ph.D.s in the country and he wants to write an article on me and the success that I have made with my learning disabilities and school as well as work and life. For this I have to thank my wonderful parents who never let the words "I can't" be in my dictionary it was alway yes you can it just may take some time. I hope with Leighton I am as successful in this idea as my mom and dad were. I will always be greatful they have done more for me then they will never know. Hopefully I will get Easter pictures uploaded soon right now everything is on my desk top and iPad.