On Tuesday we had an egg hunt for Luke's class. A dinosaur egg hunt. They were just finishing up a unit on Sammy and the Dinosaurs. My mom found some great green and brown eggs at the dollar store and dino stickers I put in the eggs.
The awesome Ms. Jenny got a shovel and pail for each child, just like Sammy has in the book.
I got several cute pictures of the kids hunting their eggs and enjoying their dino fruit snacks (except Luke. He still cannot handle the texture of fruit snacks.) But I'm always unsure about posting pictures of kids from school. So here's one little egg hunter.
The weather was absolutely perfect.
While at school I met the elementary special ed teacher we will work with next year. She was observing Luke in preparation for our transition meeting the next day. I liked her very much.
The transition meeting went beautifully on Wednesday. I'm very happy that Luke will the level of services Luke will have kindergarten. I also very pleased with the kindergarten teacher and speech therapist I met. It was a joy to hear about all the errands Luke runs to get familiar with people and building. Listening to Ms. Jenny and Ms. Jodie describe Luke and make recommendations, I realized they know his personality at school better than I do. Of course they do! My mission the past few years has been becoming an expert on my child, trying to learn what makes him tick so I can help him most effectively. But I occasionally see him at school and they see him every day. And his motivators at school with his peers are different than at home. I am amazed at how well they understand him. For example as we discussed his aid for next year, Ms. Jenny stressed that while the aid's priority will be to make sure Luke is successful, she needs to appear to be an aid to all the students. Because if Luke feels he is the only child with an aid, he will be very embarrassed. Brilliant!
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Luke's spring break began Friday, an absolutely gorgeous day to be out of school! After spending Thursday night with Mimi and Papa, we enjoyed some ChickFila lunch outside, at Luke's insistence. The wind nearly took our lunch from the table into the cars waiting in the drive thru line more times than I can remember.
Luke returned home mid afternoon. We soon got a call from our buddy Cooper inviting Luke over for an impromptu sprinkler party (I believe Cooper's name for it was "just a small 3 hour party").
I can't describe how much better playdates are than in years past. Playdates used to absolutely exhaust me. It was all work for Mommy if I wanted Luke engaged. Playdates typically are lots of fun now. But not always. I suspect this is true for all children, neurotypical or not. Sometimes the personality blend just doesn't work on a particular day. Well, yesterday was a pretty perfect playdate.
Luke was a little tentative about the sprinkler, but learned to laugh it off if he got sprayed a little harder than he'd like.
Getting braver.
The boys found a worm and shared it beautifully.
Big giggles on the malfunctioning slip n slide.
One of these boy's father works on cars regularly and the child frequently observes and helps. And one does not. Can you guess which one?
After the playdate we enjoyed dinner out and some fabulous frozen yogurt (that tastes exactly like soft serve ice cream). The boys ran and played and giggled. And Luke feel sound asleep as soon as we got home. Yeah spring!
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