happy memories day

today marks 58 years since my grandparents said "i do". we celebrating it physically with grandpa and in our hearts and memories with nan.

we spent some of the morning with grandpa looking at photos and talking about their wedding day, nans bouquet, the bridesmaids colours and even grandpa going to see nan on the day they got married

we went ten pin bowling as nan and grandpa used to love doing that together and then we went for a cup of tea and pancakes for nan

what sterling examples they are of unconditional love and we will forever celebrate today as happy memories day as mom has "coined" today to be :)

Happy Valentines Day :)

Happy Valentines Day Everyone!

For God so love the world, that He gave his only son!

To Our little Valentine, Deqlan

We love you with our all and everything and adore you sweetheart

xxxxx

Durban, by the sea

hello everyone!

wanted to share some new and exciting news with you!

we are moving to durban! yes, by the sea!

mark will be taking over his works durban branch, and we will move us a family by the end of march

we have found a school in pinetown that caters for kids with special needs, including autism. deqlan will go for a 2 week assesment in april to see if its the right school for him!

i cant imagine not being at little leaps and not having ayline as deqies teacher

never mind not seeing my mom and dee, gpa, megs con keatie+khloe, as often as i like for as long as i like! we have already planned our first three visits to each other , so i know i can already look forward to those dates! i have the most amazing supportive family and we will get through the tought days together even if we not physically together we always are in our hearts! thank heavens for skype, blackberry and facebook! and thank you lord its not another country, just 6 hours away

we trust that god is leading us as he aways does, on this new adventure to the sea, a great new challenge and oppurtunity for mark and perhaps the launch of deqlans surfing career and my dream job working with the dolphins at ushaka marine world?

will keep you posted on all the plans!

god bless love always

mark samm deqlan logan

"for i know the plans i have for you" declares the lord "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future"

jeremiah 29;11

Deqlan loves to.......

i love to;

- watch and dance ,sing a long to and script scenes from disney junior,especially special agent oso and his three special steps

- riding in cars

- swim in the sea+run on the beach

- playing rough and tumble with conrad

- playing "skittles" ten pen bowling

- going to get and eating chips in the car

- learn to ride my bike! i practise very hard every day to pedal and im getting so much better !

- go to little leaps and learn about letter land, currently "annie apple" - and i am loving to draw "a"'s all over the show , especially the floor tiles

- thomas and his friends are once again firm favourites and best friends

- run in fountains

- browse through dvd stores and watch movies to see which production company made and produced the film

-talk about restaurant logo's

- talk about car logo's

- my logo file ayline created especially for me at little leaps!

- watching you tube clips of little friends who also like talking about car logos and their thomas the train collections

-doing addition sums for mama and nanna and watching their faces in delight with each correct sum i do!

- talking to logan and asking her what she is doing?

- surprising dada in the garage each night when he gets home from work saying " hello dada, how are you?" then jumping in his car to ride with him into the garage

-waking my grandpa up when he is snoozing!

- giving my pointing finger to you , insyead of my thumb, when we say " sharp sharp"

- giving high fives to everyone :)

-asking for and listening and dancing to stings " englishmen in new york" and coldplay's "paradise"

- listening to the fresh drive on 5fm

- playing in the jacuzzi with grandpa

- talking about my favourite brands- survivor, kauia

- going to play at spur

- surfing the internet

- laying all our family photos out and naming each family member

- cuddling and playing with khloe

- im starting to enjoy sharing with keaton,even though it doesnt always look like it :)

- running up to big grandpa and getting blessed on my forehead by him

- saying " in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen" before mama and i pray each night

- jelly baffs!

- splashing a huge amount of water out of nanna and grandpas jacuzzi :)

- splashing a huge amount of water out my bath! it even reaches the ceiling!

- jumping into swimming pools!!!!!!

- playing with my action figure guys or animals or cars in the mud then rinsing them off in the dogs water ;)

- jumping on my trampoline and kicking my ball at the same time! ive gotten so good with my ball skills

- playing with my ipad

- skyping with kevin louise and rhyan in new zealand

-skypping with uncle ken and aunty jen in germany

- pulling our cats tale to hear her meoww!

- reading magazines and looking for logos

- pretending to talk on the phone

- visit meggie and conrads house

-sing happy birthday, blow out candles and eat cupcakes:)

- cuddle when falling asleep and make sure everyone is tucked in under the blanket

- listen to nanna reading my favourite stories when falling asleep, and tell her who the authors are and who the book was illustrated by- i even know if she left something out the story and quickly remind her!

and mama and dada and nannas absolute favourite at the moment

- the stories and remarks i make about things and the descriptive appropriate words i am using and sentences i am making :)

thank You Lord

Thank You Lord Deqlans blood and urine results remain perfectly normal and clear!!! NED forever and always we Trust Dear Lord!
Dr De Jager thrilled with his results and thrilled to see how happy and healthy and well Deqie is!
He has put on 3kg and grown 6cm in length in the last year!
As always he is so soft and gentle and kind to Deqie with lots of love and hugs and laughter
Deqie enjoyed playing with the stethoscope and playing with the fancy measuring tape and just being his cute self :)

thank you living and merciful lord for healing our beautiful boy! thank you prayer army for your prayers and trusting with us we are so so blessed

sleep tight everyone

god bless all our love and all our thanks for all your continued love and prayers

thank you lord for the gift of deqlan and the honour of being his dada and mama

extra special hugs from deqlan

mark samm deqlan logan

rejoice in the lord always and again i say rejoice!

prayers for Deqlans results plse friends

morning friends

plse join us this morning in praying and trusting for deqlans blood and urine results to continue being perfectly normal and clear forever and always .ned forever in your name lord. may dr de jager continue to be thrilled with deqlan in everyway

thank you all so much loyal prayer army

in jesus holy name we say thank you

amen

my first week as on octopus

Deqlan's delighted to be back at school and this year as on Octopus!

We are blessed to still have Ayline as his teacher as she is now taking the grade R group!

The first day of school started off with a happy dance and laugh at the gate when seeing Ayline and Ash and then he was off not to worried if mama stayed or left :)

things are stepped up a notch in the octopus class and you need many more hands, i mean tentacles for all the new and exciting tasks! the most exciting being, letterland, right about deqies street :) he loved playing with the porgamme last year, which is based on the alphabet. this year its learning with letterland and focusing on each letter in different ways. learning the sound, how to write the letter in sand and eith pencils and looking for the letter in each others names for example.

deqlans frustration levels started peaking towards the end of last week and got so frustrated at one point he head but ayline and bit another learner :(

we did look at the thought of candida flaring again but it just didnt seem consistent enough for me to say candida was the culprit. nanna also pointed it it could be a sensory issue, as he is also trying to chew on everything he can get in his mouth again

ayline had a breakthrough today, realising what was urking our beautiful boy. he didnt want to focus and finish the task for the morning, so she did it with him when all the kids were finished and guess what- he did it perfectly. the hustle and the bustle of having so many kids around him, making a noise is just to overwhelming and he cant say " stop this is to much" or " to "loud" so it comes out in other ways. she is going to try and do group work with a quieter group tomorow to see if it helps our deqie. he would thrive doing lessons on his own, but thats not always what its going to be like in the real world- so we got to try and help him and modify his environment when we can, to help him continue to learn, which he loves doing!

deqlans sentences are more beautiful and lengthy then ever before- even complicated long requests or stories are so beautifully told- some times words not exactly in the right order but we know exactly what he is talking about - such a blessing

some older friends have left little leaps to start grade 1 at other schools and some new beautiful faces and personalities! including 2 girls :) they are so lovely ;)

heres hoping each day improves for our beautiful boy

sleep tight god bless sweet dreams thanks for your continued prayers for thursdays resultsn thank you lord

love the higgins fam

be still and know that i am god

lord jesus, i trust in you