Poor Preston has been looking forward to starting K all summer, but had to miss today due to the Hand Foot and Mouth disease. He came down with it Friday and five days later he is still getting over it. He had a pretty bad case of it (mainly in his mouth) and didn't eat any food or been able to speak a word from Friday afternoon until Monday morning. He is starting to come around and hopes to have his "first" day of K on Thursday.
Caden was VERY excited for school, woke up on his own at 6:30 got dressed and ready to go. He does really enjoy school but I think he was most excited to look at his teacher's fish tank all day. He absolutely loves fish and it's funny he got put in the only 4th grade classroom with a fish tank. Both kids teachers are super sweet and I think they are going to have a great year. A new student just moved here from out of state with Type I diabetes and they get to sit next to each other in the same class. So I am hoping that is a friendship in the making since Caden has really started to think he is the only boy his age with diabetes. This little boy also has two younger siblings with diabetes! I can't even imagine.
Avery is doing well, started speech therapy last week. She is over a year behind in speech, and for the past 6 months has made minimal progress. She just doesn't pronounce words using the correct sounds 90% of the time. For example, "I have to go Pee Pee" is "De de Tee tee" or something like that. Cup is "da", book is "dut" or something really hard to understand, and Avery is "Adee". She absolutely shows favortism towards the letter "d" and "t". She has trouble with many beginning sounds and rarely ever finishes a word with the correct sound. But, hopefully with some work we can overcome this by the time she goes to preschool next fall.
Two more days until Caden's 9th bday which really means 2 more days of convincing him of something other than what he has asked for: a saltwater fish tank. I am hoping he loves his teachers tank so much he changes his mind (quickly) to a freshwater one!
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
First Day of Kingergarten...or not!
Posted by Tracy at 7:49 AM
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Kaleb has the same speech issues, but no one at the school has even mentioned testing. But we're only in the second full week. I think I"ll bring it up next time she calls. They haven't mentioned ESL either. Maybe because the twins seem to understand most things. But they really don't.
I'm glad there's another boy with diabetes so he doesn't feel all alone with the diabetes.
Poor Preston! I hope he's able to make it on Thursday. :(
Fish! Any chance you can talk him into a DSi or a Wii? :) I am not a fan of fish!
I hope you are able to see good progress with Avery now that she is seeing a therapist.
Maybe you can ask C's teacher if he can have special fish duties to help stave off his hunger for a tank of his own. Perhaps a bonding activity for him and the other child w/ Diabetes? So sorry P's been in such a state! Glad to hear A has started speech therapy. How thrilled you will all be to hear what she has to say (I'll bet it's a lot!).
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