It’s Summer Break!

Summer break in my household actually began last Wednesday at 10:43 am when my son was dismissed from his last day of kindergarten. There was no official promotion ceremony but on Tuesday all of the kids came out of the school with little construction paper caps on and they all proudly held their kindergarten graduation certificates. The teacher lined all of the kids up and then counted down…3, 2, 1 and all of the kids started to sing a cute little song. Well, almost all. My son promptly turned around with his back facing the row of moms all furiously snapping pictures of their proud kindergartener singing about how they’re almost officially 1st graders. I just smiled and let Alexander keep his back to everyone. I knew that he was not comfortable with the situation but he was standing there, that was good enough for me. When the song ended the kids all ran to their moms; Alexander turned around and casually walked to me with a little smile on his face “hi mom.” I responded “Hi sweetie” and went and had him get in the car. He then told me that he was singing the song just very quietly. I asked him why he turned around and he responded “I was a little nervous.” Sounds good kiddo, I don’t blame ya!

So Thursday was our first free day but I had a play therapy appointment scheduled for Alexander. I wrote down the wrong time and went an hour early but thankfully realized it before we’d waited long so we went and ran a few errands – mainly dropping off the paperwork for his social skills group that was pushed back to a 6/7 start. Well we get back to therapy and Ava and I dutifully go to the waiting room while Alexander gets to have fun with Miss Natasha. She calls us in for the last ten minutes so we can discuss Alexander’s progress – she said he is doing really well and is definitely ready for the social skills group now (before he was just too rigid). She did say that he got a little upset with her moving his characters today and threw sand at her (they play with a sand table). However she was quick to say that he realized what he did was wrong and quickly said that he was sorry and explained “I lost a little of my control.” We’ve really been working on Alexander’s impulse control (and have been for well over a year) and he’s at the point now where he is finally in-tune with it. Wow!

Ava’s last day of school was earlier in May. I just received her OT follow-up from the school and she met all of her goals but one – she can’t wheelbarrow walk far enough. However her IEP is in place until 9/24/07 so she still has some time to work on that.

So summer will be busy for us – both kids will continue their occupational therapy, they are also in semi-private swim lessons. Alexander will continue his play therapy as it has been a tremendous help to him and then we’re adding his social skills group. We’ll also have lots of unstructured fun time – mainly with family. I should hear sometime this week if Alexander’s out-of-boundary exemption was approved so he can return to the same school. Once I get that news then I can relax for the summer!!

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