Have you ever tried to wrangle a monkey into a car seat?? Or wait an octopus & all its tentacles into a car seat?? That is what we are dealing with these days...keeping Hayden in his car seat & safe while traveling. It isn't pretty when I am driving 70+ mph up & down the interstate for Hayden's various appointments & I view him in my 'spy eye', i.e. small extra mirror focused only on Hayden, wiggling his way out of his car seat...it is simply amazing I do NOT have more gray hairs.
So what are we doing to solve this problem??? We are working with our close by children's hospital & the OT dept to find an appropriate car seat for Hayden. Maybe by the time the next school year rolls around we will have our new car seat...fingers crossed!
We have traveled through yet another IEP season for Hayden with a few changes/suggestions/tweaks along the way. The one thing that I have learned through this educational process for Hayden is we NEVER, EVER sign an IEP during the initial IEP meeting. We will be taking our time to review the 2012-2013 school year IEP & process all the information prior to signing it...it's the right thing to do for our son.
Autism walk...our family team was able to raise $2000+ for our area's Autism Partnership. We were simply blown away by the generous support of family, friends, & co-workers. There were 1000+ at the walk/run & I've hear that close to $30,000 thus has been raised for our area's Autism Partnership.
Shayla is into the Spring soccer season. She seems to enjoy it...but then again she is a pre-teen with all those joyous moments. She is counting down the days to the end of this school year, but has told us that she doesn't want to leave school. I'm think year around schooling would be good for both of our kids.
Summer plans??? Not a lot this year...Hayden will fortunately be attending an intensive speech camp for 5 weeks followed by a week in school (he misses the other weeks due to speech camp) & hopefully finding a 'helper' to keep Hayden occupied & stimulated. And lets face it keep Hayden safe while we do our summer evening stuff.
Trying to figure out some things for Shayla to do this summer...some meaningful things, purposeful things.
That's all for this go around.
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