Birthday Celebration Day 3 and some great news!

In typical Erin fashion I stop blogging and then go blog crazy! So today was part 3 of Oksana's birthday celebration but FIRST I have to tell you that we got our WRITTEN REFERRAL!!!!! I should hear about our travel dates tomorrow so I'll be sure and update yet again! I will be so happy to finally have those dates on the calendar! OK, back to the birthday. A couple of weeks ago Oksana came home with this in her back pack:

She told me that it was from her friend Olivia. She talks about Olivia quite a bit so I knew this was one of the little girls in her class that is very sweet to her. That week Oksana's teacher e-mailed the classroom newsletter to all of the parents and I noticed Olivia's mom's email on there so I contacted her. I told her who I was and a bit about Oksana. I told her about the picture that came home, that we had hung it in Oksana's room because we thought it was so sweet, and that she has a very special daughter. She emailed me back and told me that Olivia talks about Oksana all the time. She asked if we would be interested in a play date! I was SO excited and I knew Oksana was going to flip out! I told her that Oksana's birthday was over spring break and that she had been wanting to go to a place with inflatable bounce houses so we set up our play date and then we began counting down to this day! The girls had a blast together and I loved getting to know Olivia's mom. I only got a couple of pictures and if you've ever taken a child with CP to one of these bouncy places you will know why...I spent most of my time hauling her around inflatables! Here are just the couple of pictures that I got.

See this slide? By the end of our time there Oksana could climb the stairs to the top independently! I, of course, stayed behind her just in case but she could not do that when we went to a place like this over Thanksgiving.

Oksana and Olivia

Crazy boys :)

If you think the celebrating is over you are wrong! On Tuesday, when spring break is over, Oksana is bringing cupcakes to her class to celebrate her birthday. That will be later...for now I'm just anxious for some travel dates!