Tomorrow Nathan has his social group and he won't know it but a phycologist from the school is going to be observing him tomorrow. He has to be reassessed by someone from the school before he can start Kindergarten. I mentioned again about him possibly attending 1st grade classes for reading and such but I can sense the hesitancy in her voice. We will see!
Friday he has Theraplay which he is NOT looking forward to. He doesn't like going because it's "hard." Poor guy.
Tuesday the same phycologist from the school will be re-evaluating him but this time I won't be sitting with Nathan. Not sure how I feel about that.
Nathan's new obsessions are Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King. He has also started to make noises while eating....over and over and over...ugh. We are in the midst of teaching him to use words instead of shrieking..about everything! The other day at a play date a boy stepped on his foot but instead of moving his foot or telling the boy that he was stepping on his foot he stood there and shrieked. Typical for him.
Emma needs her time in the spotlight too right? She had her hair done while my mom was here. She loves getting her hair washed and done and asked to go back to do it again. She is definitely a princess. Chris asked her tonight if she knew about Rosa Parks and Emma smiled and said, "Yes, Nathan told me." HA HA! I am sure he did.
And me? I am feeling so much better physically. I have more energy now and today I cleared out the kid's room. 3 bags of trash and 2 bags for donations. BIG BAGS! Crazy. Tonight I am pretty worn out. Someone is bringing us dinner tomorrow which is great. I miss my parents and the kids do too. I am so grateful for them flying up here the day after we heard.
Tomorrow will be two weeks since we found out our baby was gone. It will be my first time going back to Nathan's social group where two weeks ago I tearfully pulled him out to rush to the doctors. Nathan keeps writing "No Magic U" on his calendar. I asked him what it meant and he said it's "because you don't have the baby in your belly anymore." It doesn't seem to make much sense but I guess in some way it is his way of dealing with it.
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Occupational Therapy
So today was Nathan's first time having OT. (Occupational Therapy) Her name is Americ and she is really nice. Nathan nearly talked her to death. After about five minutes she looked at me and said, "You must be exhausted by the end of a day!" I told her he would talk endlessly if she let him and not to feel bad if she had to interrupt him or tell him to stop talking for a little while!
The first thing she did was work on coloring. She made him hold a crayon sideways and color a blue paper with a white crown from top to bottom. He struggled with it and wanted to stop but she kept him going. Next they worked on cutting out a hat, carrot, and smiley face for their snowman. He had a hard time cutting as usual but she showed him how to do it. It was a struggle and he gets agitated when he can't do something as well as he wants. He was mad when he cut the smile face out too small.
Next she did a game with him that he had to grasp some small moving worms. He did pretty good with that.
Next she had him work on lacing some animals with a shoe lace. He didn't like that too much. She was good with him and despite the fact he wanted to give up and complained constantly she kept him going. She believes because he is so smart that he knows what he can and can't do and so he wants to avoid the hard things.
This is going to be important skills for him to master if we want to send him to school. She said he definitely had problems with his fine motor skills and she seems very confidant that she can help him improve. Honestly I hope he can learn to do button and use scissors before he starts school!!
So it was a good day. Now we are waiting for this big snow storm. Chris is gone so I will be in charge of shoveling or snow blowing us out!
Nathan has been very excited about the baby lately. I gave him a magazine that shows what the baby looks like each month so each morning he ask me what month I am in. When I told him three months this morning he was so excited and flipped to see the 3 month picture.
I am grateful we are getting this help now before he starts school and before the baby comes! I think it will really help him out!
The first thing she did was work on coloring. She made him hold a crayon sideways and color a blue paper with a white crown from top to bottom. He struggled with it and wanted to stop but she kept him going. Next they worked on cutting out a hat, carrot, and smiley face for their snowman. He had a hard time cutting as usual but she showed him how to do it. It was a struggle and he gets agitated when he can't do something as well as he wants. He was mad when he cut the smile face out too small.
Next she did a game with him that he had to grasp some small moving worms. He did pretty good with that.
Next she had him work on lacing some animals with a shoe lace. He didn't like that too much. She was good with him and despite the fact he wanted to give up and complained constantly she kept him going. She believes because he is so smart that he knows what he can and can't do and so he wants to avoid the hard things.
This is going to be important skills for him to master if we want to send him to school. She said he definitely had problems with his fine motor skills and she seems very confidant that she can help him improve. Honestly I hope he can learn to do button and use scissors before he starts school!!
So it was a good day. Now we are waiting for this big snow storm. Chris is gone so I will be in charge of shoveling or snow blowing us out!
Nathan has been very excited about the baby lately. I gave him a magazine that shows what the baby looks like each month so each morning he ask me what month I am in. When I told him three months this morning he was so excited and flipped to see the 3 month picture.
I am grateful we are getting this help now before he starts school and before the baby comes! I think it will really help him out!
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