Quickie!

I see my link for the blog on my toolbar on my screen and I think, "I really need to do an update!" And then something else comes up and it doesn't happen. This update will be super short. Today we had a meeting to go over the evaluations school did with Alistair in order to move forward with setting up an IEP (Invidualized Education Plan). Nothing was a surprise to us in the needs portion of the evaluation...he definitialy needs his Para-Educator to help him in class and around school with actions using his hands and arms. He needs speech, occupational and physical therapies at school and will qualify for them. The thing that was more suprising, but pleasantly so, was that socially, emotionally, mentally and cognitively he is soaring! The psychologist met with him a few times and said he is aware of his limitations and is not afraid to advocate for himself, he has a very positive outlook on things and seems to be happy! His academics have not been affected; he participates in group learning in class, he is understanding new concepts and retaining information in math and has great reading comprehension and retention. So, so glad to hear! 

Tomorrow Alistair has his BIG check-up appointment with Rehab at Children's. We will be there ALL day and he will see all the therapists, Dr. Apkon and the psychologist. It will be interesting getting their perspective on things since they haven't seen him at all in 7 1/2 weeks! I will make sure to give a full report in the next few days on all that was discussed!

School Jog-A-Thon - Alistair did 5 or 6 laps and even did some jogging!

Snow White and the Zombie - Alistair wasn't going to dress up this year and stayed home to hand our candy with Seth. At the last minute, he decided to answer the door as a zombie and got a shirt that unbuttoned! People thought it was cool, some were a little surpirsed his scar was real!