Yes, I just showered and the day is almost over. Got a problem with that??
Anyway, Duhdee just interrupted my shower to tell me that Monkey was in the living room saying “Ma Ma” and signing shower, lol. I do wish he’d CALL me Mama but the fact that he can is enough. For now, lol.
We are so pleased with how well Monkey has handled the transition. The second night in his new bed Umma had to employ a Super Nanny technique. After I put him down he proceeded to get up and come out of his room 5 or 6 times. The first time I told him it was bedtime and took him straight back to bed. The rest of the times I didn’t speak at all, I just took him straight back to bed. Within 10 minutes he got it and even though he was still awake he stayed in his bed until he fell asleep! The last two nights have been more like the first night. He’s going to bed and staying there willingly until he falls asleep.
Last night I had a work dinner and when I got home I walked the dogs. Apparently we were too noisy because Duhdee heard Monkey in his room. He was waiting for him to come out but he never did. After I got back and was ready for bed I went in to check on him and found him on the floor next to his bed with his sippy cup of water. I put him back in bed (cup and all) and he barely reacted.
He wandered in our bedroom dragging his blanky around 5 and signed for us to get up. I don’t think so little man! I tried getting him back to bed…it lasted for a few minutes and then Duhdee took over. Duhdee managed to get him back to sleep twice by 6 AM and then gave up. After being up for a little while and dumping toys everywhere Monkey went back to his room and leaned against the bed. Duhdee put him back in and he was still asleep when I left at 8:30. With consistency maybe this won’t be so hard?
He went right to sleep, no getting up, no fighting the change. So cool. Now let’s see if he sleeps through the night!
MONKEY! It was so cool!
After I got home last night Monkey ran out to the kitchen and pointed to the top of the fridge. We keep the junk food up there, lol. I asked him what he wanted and this conversation followed…
Monkey: “MMMMMMmmmm!”
Umma: “You want M&M’s?”
Monkey dances excitedly while I get the bag.
Umma: “Do you want blue or orange?”
Monkey: “Oooo, doh doh doh.”
Umma: “Do you want a blue M&M or an orange one, use your words.” (I thought he was trying to say orange again, he said it last week for his therapist.)
Monkey: “Bowl.”
Umma: “Did you say BLUUUE?”
Monkey, running to the cupboard, “No. Bowl!” and he grabbed a bowl.
LOL, he didn’t want one he wanted a bowl of them. He got a small handful as a reward. Little punk, I’m so proud.
Things are still super busy at work and I’m trying to make it a point to get a decent amount of sleep….there’s not much time for blogging right now so you get another long update post.
This past weekend was pretty relaxed. It was rainy and cold so we pretty much just hung out. On Saturday Monkey’s battery operated train finally kicked the bucket. I can’t say I’m sorry it died either. It was really loud and used up batteries at an alarming rate. One battery would handle about 1.5 hours of play, we’d started rationing the batteries. He got one battery per day, lol.
Hey all, not much to report really. We had a great party with our EI/BB people on Monday. Monkey actually opened some presents! It was nice to get a chance to thank them for everything they’ve done for us in the last two years. And they brought a huge birthday cookie. Yum!
Tuesday was a day off…no EI services and no CPS services.
Wednesday was supposed to be the start of Monkey’s BB 3-6 services (the extra services the school is paying for through the summer) but his new provider, C., was in a car accident on the way to the house! Fortunately she’s OK. She was rear-ended by a truck at a stop light. Wet roads are dangerous.
Thursday and Friday C. was here playing with Monkey. She’ll be coming 5 days a week from now on. He seems to like her OK. He does play with her but it takes a bit of warming up to get there. Barley is really unhappy with her though. She has a toy piano that makes this noise….a really loud beeping noise. It totally freaks him out. We’re going to ask her not to use it anymore, lol. I was reading her note last night and noticed that she wants to introduce play dough next week. Looks like Umma is making more play dough this weekend since he won’t play with the store bought stuff, lol.
We’re so glad it’s over and….we got pretty much everything we wanted.
Monkey is going to continue to receive in home services from Building Blocks (new providers but the same therapies) and he’ll start getting his ST, OT and PT through the school. Duhdee will have to drive him to the schools for those sessions, the schedule needs to be worked out between us and the new providers.
Starting in September he will be in a fully integrated preschool class. It’s pretty much perfect. He doesn’t have to start full days until he’s ready, they’re leaving that up to us to decide with his teacher. They don’t think he needs the transition classroom…they think he’ll do well in a regular classroom and they don’t want to force him to go through all those changes unnecessarily.
They also put in his IEP that they want him in a mainstreamed Kindergarten with whatever supports he needs but they don’t want him in a special education classroom.
We’re really pleased with the outcome!
We saw the substantially separate/transition classroom that CPS proposed at our last meeting. It’s OK.
There are 3 kids in there right now and 1 more starting after vacation. 3 of those 4 may be in there in the fall, 1 is being mainstreamed. There are two teachers. One is trained in sign (though possibly rusty, she doesn’t have much chance to use it according to the director.) One of the girls is non-verbal (I think), one has 11 words, the boy is on an IEP from another state b/c he doesn’t speak English so he is the one being mainstreamed. Read more
