Reporting :) with a smile .....

Another full week, but me and the boy are staying in, in, in all day tomorrow. By in, I mean not driving anywhere. Hopefully we play outside quite a bit.

On Tuesday night me and Matt went to our first meeting with the School District to discuss Griffin's transition into PPCD, which is public preschool at his local elementary school for special needs children. It felt good. I am not really freaked out at all. I mean I pulled him out of his little mothers day out preschool things, that we tried for 6 months, to free up some time to do other things, but also because I wanted him with me, and not there. Thinking about him being gone 5 days a week for 4 hours makes my heart long and ache, I will miss him. But I just feel so blessed to be able to be fully available for him and to him during his transition. I also feel so blessed to be able to be so super involved with making sure I like the program that he is going into. I mean I don't have any other kids, and I don't work, so I have got time and no other obligations other than him, and for that, at this moment I am so very thankful! Also I feel so very blessed that I don't feel dependent on the school district, if I don't like it, if I feel it is not the right place for him, then he won't go there, we will figure something else out. After the meeting me and Matt talked about how we felt like we were Griffin's school, and not like we needed the school district desperately to help us with him.

And then today we had our yearly hearing screening, to test for any hearing loss or problems in Griffin. Hearing issues are very common in Down syndrome so we test yearly for anything. He was all cleared even though it took a while to get a good test.

AND THEN..... after that we went to our 2nd Hippo-therapy session.

Hehe.....Griffin did not like the helmet on his head. He was awake this time and excited until a helmet was strapped to him, then he was irritated! His therapist was great though at distracting him, and he rode, Lacey, a beautiful white pony for 30 minutes. The had this black harness strapped around Griffin to give him support, and he just laid stomach down, head down on the Lacey's back almost the entire time. As I watched him, I laughed at my last weeks expectations, and even many of my life expectations. What am I thinking sometimes? Reality and fantasy is a line that is blurred so much in my mind. It felt good to be able to see how outlandish my expectations can be.

And I think I am about to post two posts back to back because I feel like writing on two subjects tonight. So I will be right back.........