Brag Day Wednesday

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Post those brags!

kcisthebombdotcom

Dd is playing a game--hungry hungry hippos. She loves counting the balls at the end,

funchicken

Okay, I know my brags are often shoe-related but here's another one. After 2.5 years of refusing to wear sneakers I found a pair that DD likes, and she's been wearing them for a week. They're Converse high tops with stretch laces, so she can even put them on herself, which is awesome. Her fine motor delays make it hard for her to tie laces, but she hates not being able to do things herself.

And my other brag is that I think I've gotten to a really good place with DD's teacher. I volunteered in the classroom yesterday, and it was really fun.  I definitely feel like we're collaborating to help DD be her best self.

MirandaHobbes

mrszee2b said:

Okay, I know my brags are often shoe-related but here's another one. After 2.5 years of refusing to wear sneakers I found a pair that DD likes, and she's been wearing them for a week. They're Converse high tops with stretch laces, so she can even put them on herself, which is awesome. Her fine motor delays make it hard for her to tie laces, but she hates not being able to do things herself.

I just found a pair of these at the Gap (converse style with elastic laces)- DS loved them and asked if he could have more shoes with laces because they look "cooler" than velcro. I about fell over. I'm going to look for neon colored elastic and try replacing the laces in other shoes.

funchicken

MirandaHobbes said:

mrszee2b said:

Okay, I know my brags are often shoe-related but here's another one. After 2.5 years of refusing to wear sneakers I found a pair that DD likes, and she's been wearing them for a week. They're Converse high tops with stretch laces, so she can even put them on herself, which is awesome. Her fine motor delays make it hard for her to tie laces, but she hates not being able to do things herself.

I just found a pair of these at the Gap (converse style with elastic laces)- DS loved them and asked if he could have more shoes with laces because they look "cooler" than velcro. I about fell over. I'm going to look for neon colored elastic and try replacing the laces in other shoes.

I found these at Target. I'm tempted to buy the next size up, too.

MirandaHobbes

DS is Student of the Month! I'll ignore the fact that every kid in the class gets to be student of the month at some point. There is going to be an all school assembly and he'll get to go up on stage and everything.

DS is doing wonderfully in class now that he has a new teacher who really gets him. His report card showed improvements in all areas and he's even "above average" in reading and word usage. I'm so disappointed he won't have this same teacher next year, too. She's bending over backwards trying to advocate for an aide for his summer camp program- someone to encourage and scaffold interactions with other kids. It's a private program so she's facing an uphill battle but she's trying to advocate for all the ASD kids who will be attending.

lite-bright

I have a kind of brag. DD1 came home from school one day last week complaining that two other kids in her class had argued with her over who won a game, and called her a loser. (insert cringe)

I was trying to understand what had happened and was asking her a bunch of questions about how different people reacted (including the teachers, there was a sub that day), and she started off seemingly pretty accurate and then went into how the other two kids got yelled at and sent to the office. At that point I asked if she was telling me what had actually happened or what she wished had happened, and she admitted that the yelling and office were what she wished had happened. 

I give her credit for a pretty fantastic story, though! When I asked the teacher's aide, she said the three of them are sitting at the same table now and had a spat. One of the other kids just lost his dad, so I have a feeling emotions are running high right now. 

I also found out yesterday that DD1 is in the highest reading level group in the first grade class where she goes for reading work. Her decoding is *that* good. And she is breezing through story retelling these days and being able to summarize well, so I am feeling better about comprehension than I was a couple of weeks ago. 

hopecounts

DD and I were playing this weekend and DH left to go grab dinner for us we came out of her room and she started looking around and said "where Daddy?" and walked to our room looking for him.

First time she's asked a real question like that.

then this morning we were doing art and she said cat draw one. not the most grammatically correct statement but she was asking for me to draw a cat!

typeset

The kid is rocking social skills vacation camp. He dodges questions about preschool or we have to show him pictures to get him to recount events there, but he's been readily volunteering details about new peers and activities from the last few days. First time I've seen him happy in a long time. 

  

mommy0411

We have successfully transition from Ei to the district preschool! I love DS's teacher and he is getting both speech and OT in the class. He goes in happy and comes out happy! I have been stressing about this transition for a long time now and it has gone better then I could have imagined!

flerlgirl

DS is officially sitting!! He can't quite get himself into a sitting position but if I sit him up he can stay that way for a long time! We have been working on this in therapy since Christmastime. I love seeing the therapy work! Next up, crawling!!